# Grafana v4.6.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v4.6.1
- **Released:** Nov 01, 2017
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v4.6.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v4.6.1. Source highlight: Download Page

## New Features
- **Annotations**: Add support for creating annotations from graph panel #8197
- **GCS**: Adds support for Google Cloud Storage #8370 thx @chuhlomin
- **Prometheus**: Adds /metrics endpoint for exposing Grafana metrics. #9187
- **Graph**: Add support for local formating in axis. #1395, thx @m0nhawk
- **Jaeger**: Add support for open tracing using jaeger in Grafana. #9213
- **Unit types**: New date & time unit types added, useful in singlestat to show dates & times. #3678, #6710, #2764

## Bug Fixes
- **Graph**: Fix for series override color picker #9715
- **Plugins**: Fixed problem with loading plugin js files behind auth proxy #9509
- **Alerting**: Viewer can no longer pause alert rules #9640
- **Playlist**: Bug where playlist controls was missing #9639
- **Firefox**: Creating region annotations now work in firefox #9638
- **Prometheus**: Fix for browser crash for short time ranges. #9575