# Grafana v11.6.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v11.6.0
- **Released:** Mar 25, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v11.6.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v11.6.0. Source highlight: Download page

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - **Plugins:** Fix version tab breaking for non semantic version [#101225](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/101225), [@oshirohugo](https://github.com/oshirohugo)
- Breaking changes - **Data source:** Change Permissions for query to only have query and not `read OR query` (Enterprise)

## New Features
- **API keys:** Migrate API keys to service accounts at startup #96924, @dmihai
- **AccessControl:** Allow plugin roles to include `plugins:write` #101089, @gamab
- **Alerting:** Add DAG errors to alert rule creation and view #99423, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Add Jira integration to cloud AMs #100482, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Add alert rule version history - part1 #99490, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Add migration to clean up rule versions table #102562, @yuri-tceretian

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting:** Add error handling for missing data source #101508, @gillesdemey
- **Alerting:** Call RLock() before reading sendAlertsTo map #99812, @santihernandezc
- **Alerting:** Disable create rule menu item from panel when unifiedAlerting is disabled #100701, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Fix KeyValueMap input bug #101367, @soniaAguilarPeiron
- **Alerting:** Fix crash when invalid matcher is used in silence query params #101500, @gillesdemey
- **Alerting:** Fix evaluation of rules with no-op math expressions #101436, @moustafab