Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v5.3.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v5.3.1. 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 (6)
- **Render**: Fix PhantomJS render of graph panel when legend displayed as table to the right #13616
- **Elasticsearch**: Fix no limit size in terms aggregation for alerting queries #13172, thx @Yukinoshita-Yukino
- **InfluxDB**: Fix for annotation issue that caused text to be shown twice #13553
- **Variables**: Fix nesting variables leads to exception and missing refresh #13628
- **Graph**: Fix graph time formatting for Last 24h ranges #13650
- **Playlist**: Fix cannot add dashboards with long names to playlist #13464, thx @neufeldtech
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/5.3.1)
[Installation Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/)
[Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v5-3-x/10244)
* **Render**: Fix PhantomJS render of graph panel when legend displayed as table to the right [#13616](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13616)
* **Stackdriver**: Filter option disappears after removing initial filter [#13607](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13607)
* **Elasticsearch**: Fix no limit size in terms aggregation for alerting queries [#13172](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13172), thx [@Yukinoshita-Yukino](https://github.com/Yukinoshita-Yukino)
* **InfluxDB**: Fix for annotation issue that caused text to be shown twice [#13553](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13553)
* **Variables**: Fix nesting variables leads to exception and missing refresh [#13628](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13628)
* **Variables**: Prometheus: Single letter labels are not supported [#13641](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13641), thx [@olshansky](https://github.com/olshansky)
* **Graph**: Fix graph time formatting for Last 24h ranges [#13650](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13650)
* **Playlist**: Fix cannot add dashboards with long names to playlist [#13464](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13464), thx [@neufeldtech](https://github.com/neufeldtech)
* **HTTP API**: Fix /api/org/users so that query and limit querystrings works