Grafana v4.6.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/4.6.0) [Installation Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/) [Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v4-6-x/3179) # 4.6.0 (2017-10-26) ## Fixes * **Alerting**: Viewer can no longer pause alert rules [#9640](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9640) * **Playlist**: Bug where playlist controls was missing [#9639](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9639) * **Firefox**: Creating region annotations now work in firefox [#9638](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9638) # 4.6.0-beta3 (2017-10-23) ## Fixes * **Prometheus**: Fix for browser crash for short time ranges. [#9575](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9575) * **Heatmap**: Fix for y-axis not showing. [#9576](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9576) * **Save to file**: Fix for save to file in export modal. [#9586](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9586) * **Postgres**: modify group by time macro so it can be used in select clause [#9527](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9527), thanks [@svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) # 4.6.0-beta2 (2017-10-17) ## Fixes * **ColorPicker**: Fix for color picker not showing [#9549](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9549) * **Alerting**: Fix for broken test rule button in alert tab [#9539](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9539) * **Cloudwatch**: Provide error message when failing to add cloudwatch datasource [#9534](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9534), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Cloudwatch**: Fix unused period parameter [#9536](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9536), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **CSV Export**: Fix for broken CSV export [#9525](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9525) * **Text panel**: Fix for issue with break lines in Firefox [#9491](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9491) * **Annotations**: Fix for issue saving annotation event in MySQL DB [#9550](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9550), thanks [@krise3k](https://github.com/krise3k) # 4.6.0-beta1 (2017-10-13) ## New Features * **Annotations**: Add support for creating annotations from graph panel [#8197](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8197) * **GCS**: Adds support for Google Cloud Storage [#8370](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8370) thx [@chuhlomin](https://github.com/chuhlomin) * **Prometheus**: Adds /metrics endpoint for exposing Grafana metrics. [#9187](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9187) * **Graph**: Add support for local formating in axis. [#1395](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1395), thx [@m0nhawk](https://github.com/m0nhawk) * **Jaeger**: Add support for open tracing using jaeger in Grafana. [#9213](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9213) * **Unit types**: New date & time unit types added, useful in singlestat to show dates & times. [#3678](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3678), [#6710](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6710), [#2764](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2764) * **CLI**: Make it possible to install plugins from any url [#5873](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5873) * **Prometheus**: Add support for instant queries [#5765](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5765), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Cloudwatch**: Add support for alerting using the cloudwatch datasource [#8050](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8050), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Pagerduty**: Include triggering series in pagerduty notification [#8479](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8479), thx [@rickymoorhouse](https://github.com/rickymoorhouse) * **Timezone**: Time ranges like Today & Yesterday now work correctly when timezone setting is set to UTC [#8916](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8916), thx [@ctide](https://github.com/ctide) * **Prometheus**: Align $__interval with the step parameters. [#9226](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9226), thx [@alin-amana](https://github.com/alin-amana) * **Prometheus**: Autocomplete for label name and label value [#9208](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9208), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Postgres**: New Postgres data source [#9209](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9209), thx [@svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) * **Datasources**: Make datasource HTTP requests verify TLS by default. closes [#9371](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9371), [#5334](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5334), [#8812](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8812), thx [@mattbostock](https://github.com/mattbostock) * **OAuth**: Verify TLS during OAuth callback [#9373](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9373), thx [@mattbostock](https://github.com/mattbostock) ## Minor * **SMTP**: Make it possible to set specific HELO for smtp client. [#9319](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9319) * **Dataproxy**: Allow grafana to renegotiate tls connection [#9250](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9250) * **HTTP**: set net.Dialer.DualStack to true for all http clients [#9367](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9367) * **Alerting**: Add diff and percent diff as series reducers [#9386](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9386), thx [@shanhuhai5739](https://github.com/shanhuhai5739) * **Slack**: Allow images to be uploaded to slack when Token is present [#7175](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7175), thx [@xginn8](https://github.com/xginn8) * **Opsgenie**: Use their latest API instead of old version [#9399](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9399), thx [@cglrkn](https://github.com/cglrkn) * **Table**: Add support for displaying the timestamp with milliseconds [#9429](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9429), thx [@s1061123](https://github.com/s1061123) * **Hipchat**: Add metrics, message and image to hipchat notifications [#9110](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9110), thx [@eloo](https://github.com/eloo) * **Kafka**: Add support for sending alert notifications to kafka [#7104](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7104), thx [@utkarshcmu](https://github.com/utkarshcmu) * **Alerting**: add count_non_null as series reducer [#9516](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9516) ## Tech * **Go**: Grafana is now built using golang 1.9 * **Webpack**: Changed from systemjs to webpack (see readme or building from source guide for new build instructions). Systemjs is still used to load plugins but now plugins can only import a limited set of dependencies. See [PLUGIN_DEV.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/PLUGIN_DEV.md) for more details on how this can effect some plugins.