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Grafana v5.4.0stable Released Dec 03, 2018
⚠️ Breaking Change Impact Score: 7/10

Grafana v5.4.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Breaking-change evidence from the source

  • Breaking changes * Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL datasources now per default uses `max open connections` = `unlimited` (earlier 10), `max idle connections` = `2` (earlier 10) and `connection max lifetime` = `4` hours (earlier unlimited).
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✨ Features 6 🔧 Bug Fixes 6 ⚠️ Breaking & Deprecations 1
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

  • Breaking changes * Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL datasources now per default uses `max open connections` = `unlimited` (earlier 10), `max idle connections` = `2` (earlier 10) and `connection max lifetime` = `4` hours (earlier unlimited).

✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)

  • **Alerting**: Introduce alert debouncing with the `FOR` setting. #7886 & #6202
  • **Alerting**: Option to disable OK alert notifications #12330 & #6696, thx @davewat
  • **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL**: Adds support for configuration of max open/idle connections and connection max lifetime. Also, panels with multiple SQL queries will now be executed concurrently #11711, thx @connection-reset
  • **MySQL**: Graphical query builder #13762, thx svenklemm
  • **MySQL**: Support connecting thru Unix socket for MySQL datasource #12342, thx @Yukinoshita-Yukino
  • **MSSQL**: Add encrypt setting to allow configuration of how data sent between client and server are encrypted #13629, thx @ramiro

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • **Cloudwatch**: Fix invalid time range causes segmentation fault #14150
  • **MySQL**: Fix `$__timeFrom()` and `$__timeTo()` should respect local time zone #14228
  • **Graph**: Fix legend always visible even if configured to be hidden #14144
  • **Elasticsearch**: Fix regression when using datasource version 6.0+ and alerting #14175
  • **Security**: Upgrade macaron session package to fix security issue. #14043
  • **Elasticsearch**: Fix switching to/from es raw document metric query #6367
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/5.4.0) [Installation Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/) [Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v5-4-x/12215) # 5.4.0 (2018-12-03) * **Cloudwatch**: Fix invalid time range causes segmentation fault [#14150](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14150) * **Cloudwatch**: AWS/CodeBuild metrics and dimensions [#14167](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14167), thx [@mmcoltman](https://github.com/mmcoltman) * **MySQL**: Fix `$__timeFrom()` and `$__timeTo()` should respect local time zone [#14228](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14228) ### 5.4.0-beta1 fixes * **Graph**: Fix legend always visible even if configured to be hidden [#14144](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14144) * **Elasticsearch**: Fix regression when using datasource version 6.0+ and alerting [#14175](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14175) # 5.4.0-beta1 (2018-11-20) ### New Features * **Alerting**: Introduce alert debouncing with the `FOR` setting. [#7886](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7886) & [#6202](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6202) * **Alerting**: Option to disable OK alert notifications [#12330](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12330) & [#6696](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6696), thx [@davewat](https://github.com/davewat) * **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL**: Adds support for configuration of max open/idle connections and connection max lifetime. Also, panels with multiple SQL queries will now be executed concurrently [#11711](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11711), thx [@connection-reset](https://github.com/connection-reset) * **MySQL**: Graphical query builder [#13762](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13762), thx [svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) * **MySQL**: Support connecting thru Unix socket for MySQL datasource [#12342](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12342), thx [@Yukinoshita-Yukino](https://github.com/Yukinoshita-Yukino) * **MSSQL**: Add encrypt setting to allow configuration of how data sent between client and server are encrypted [#13629](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13629), thx [@ramiro](https://github.com/ramiro) * **Stackdriver**: Not possible to authenticate using GCE metadata server [#13669](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13669) * **Teams**: Team preferences (theme, home dashboard, timezone) support [#12550](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12550) * **Graph**: Time regions support enabling highlight of weekdays and/or certain timespans [#5930](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5930) * **OAuth**: Automatic redirect to sign-in with OAuth [#11893](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11893), thx [@Nick-Triller](https://github.com/Nick-Triller) * **Stackdriver**: Template query editor [#13561](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13561) ### Minor * **Security**: Upgrade macaron session package to fix security issue. [#14043](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14043) * **Cloudwatch**: Show all available CloudWatch regions [#12308](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12308), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Cloudwatch**: AWS/Connect metrics and dimensions [#13970](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/13970), thx [@zcoffy](https://github.com/zcoffy) * **Cloudwatch**: CloudHSM metrics and dimensions [#14129](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14129), thx [@daktari](https://github.com/daktari) * **Cloudwatch**: Enable using variables in the stats field [#13810](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13810), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Postgres**: Add delta window function to postgres query builder [#13925](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13925), thx [svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) * **Elasticsearch**: Fix switching to/from es raw document metric query [#6367](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6367) * **Elasticsearch**: Fix deprecation warning about terms aggregation order key in Elasticsearch 6.x [#11977](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11977) * **Graph**: Render dots when no connecting line can be made [#13605](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13605), thx [@jsferrei](https://github.com/jsferrei) * **Table**: Fix CSS alpha background-color applied twice in table cell with link [#13606](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13606), thx [@grisme](https://github.com/grisme) * **Singlestat**: Fix XSS in prefix/postfix [#13946](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13946), thx [@cinaglia](https://github.com/cinaglia) * **Units**: New clock time format, to format ms or second values as for example `01h:59m`, [#13635](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13635), thx [@franciscocpg](https://github.com/franciscocpg) * **Alerting**: Increaste default duration for queries [#13945](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/13945) * **Alerting**: More options for the Slack Alert notifier [#13993](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13993), thx [@andreykaipov](https://github.com/andreykaipov) * **Alerting**: Can't receive DingDing alert when alert is triggered [#13723](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13723), thx [@Yukinoshita-Yukino](https://github.com/Yukinoshita-Yukino) * **Alerting**: Increase Telegram captions length limit [#13876](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/13876), thx [@skgsergio](https://github.com/skgsergio) * **Internal metrics**: Renamed `grafana_info` to `grafana_build_info` and added branch, goversion and revision [#13876](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/13876) * **Datasource Proxy**: Keep trailing slash for datasource proxy requests [#13326](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/13326), thx [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu) * **OAuth**: Fix Google OAuth relies on email, not google account id [#13924](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13924), thx [@vinicyusmacedo](https://github.com/vinicyusmacedo) * **Dashboard**: Toggle legend using keyboard shortcut [#13655](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13655), thx [@davewat](https://github.com/davewat) * **Dashboard**: Fix render dashboard row drag handle only in edit mode [#13555](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13555), thx [@praveensastry](https://github.com/praveensastry) * **Teams**: Fix cannot select team if not included in initial search [#13425](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13425) * **Render**: Support full height screenshots using phantomjs render script [#13352](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/13352), thx [@amuraru](https://github.com/amuraru) * **HTTP API**: Support retrieving teams by user [#14120](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14120), thx [@supercharlesliu](https://github.com/supercharlesliu) * **Metrics**: Add basic authentication to metrics endpoint [#13577](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13577), thx [@bobmshannon](https://github.com/bobmshannon) ### Breaking changes * Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL datasources now per default uses `max open connections` = `unlimited` (earlier 10), `max idle connections` = `2` (earlier 10) and `connection max lifetime` = `4` hours (earlier unlimited).
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