# Grafana v6.0.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v6.0.0
- **Released:** Feb 25, 2019
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v6.0.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v6.0.0. Source highlight: Grafana v6.0  introduces a new way of exploring your data, support for log data and tons of other features.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes * **Internal Metrics** Edition has been added to the build_info metric. This will break any Graphite queries using this metric. Edition will be a new label for the Prometheus metric. [#15363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15363)
- Breaking changes * **Text Panel**: The text panel does no longer by default allow unsantizied HTML. [#4117](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/4117). This means that if you have text panels with scripts tags they will no longer work as before. To enable unsafe javascript execution in text panels enable the settings `disable_sanitize_html` under the section `[panels]` in your Grafana ini file, or set env variable  `GF_PANELS_DISABLE_SANITIZE_HTML=true`. * **Dashboard**: Panel property `minSpan` replaced by `maxPerRow`. Dashboard migration will automatically migrate all dashboard panels u

## New Features
- **Explore** A new query focused workflow for ad-hoc data exploration and troubleshooting.
- **Grafana Loki** Integration with the new open source log aggregation system from Grafana Labs.
- **Gauge Panel** A new standalone panel for gauges.
- **New Panel Editor UX** improves panel editing and enables easy switching between different visualizations.
- **Google Stackdriver Datasource** is out of beta and is officially released.
- **Azure Monitor** plugin is ported from being an external plugin to being a core datasource

## Improvements
- **AzureMonitor**: improve autocomplete for Log Analytics and App Insights editor #15131

## Bug Fixes
- **Dashboard**: fixes click after scroll in series override menu #15621
- **MySQL**: fix mysql query using _interval_ms variable throws error #14507
- **Influxdb**: Add support for alerting on InfluxDB queries that use the non_negative_difference function #15415, thx @kiran3394
- **Alerting**: Fix percent_diff calculation when points are nulls #15443, thx @max-neverov
- **Alerting**: Fixed handling of alert urls with true flags #15454
- **Graphite/InfluxDB/OpenTSDB**: Fix always take dashboard timezone into consideration when handle custom time ranges #15284