# Grafana v6.0.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v6.0.1
- **Released:** Mar 06, 2019
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v6.0.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v6.0.1. Source highlight: Grafana v6.0  introduces a new way of exploring your data, support for log data and tons of other features.

## 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

## Bug Fixes
- **Metrics**: Fixes broken usagestats metrics for /metrics #15651
- **Dashboard**: Fixes kiosk mode should have &kiosk appended to the url #15765
- **Dashboard**: Fixes kiosk=tv mode with autofitpanels should respect header #15650
- **Image rendering**: Fixed image rendering issue for dashboards with auto refresh, . #15818, @torkelo
- **Dashboard**: Fix only users that can edit a dashboard should be able to update panel json. #15805, @marefr
- **LDAP**: fix allow anonymous initial bind for ldap search. #15803, @marefr