# Grafana v3.0.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v3.0.1
- **Released:** May 11, 2016
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v3.0.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v3.0.1. Source highlight: For full details read the Grafana 3.0 Beta Release blog post

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes - Dashboards from v2.6 are fully compatible; no manual updates should be necessary. There could be some edge case scenarios where dashboards using templating could stop working.

## Improvements
- **Big UI** improvements and polish