Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v5.0.3 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v5.0.3. Source highlight: Download Page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- **Mysql**: Mysql panic occurring occasionally upon Grafana dashboard access (a bigger patch than the one in 5.0.2) #11155
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/5.0.3)
[Installation Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/)
[Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v5-0-x/5250)
Introduces two new configuration settings:
- database section - `conn_max_lifetime`
- session section - `conn_max_lifetime`
Sets the maximum amount of time a connection may be reused. The default is 14400 (which means 14400 seconds or 4 hours). For MySQL, this setting should be shorter than the [`wait_timeout`](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_wait_timeout) variable.
* **Mysql**: Mysql panic occurring occasionally upon Grafana dashboard access (a bigger patch than the one in 5.0.2) [#11155](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11155)