Grafana v6.2.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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✨ Features 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 4

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

**Grafana-CLI**: Wrapper for `grafana-cli` within RPM/DEB packages and config/homepath are now global flags. #17695, @gotjosh
**Panel**: Fully escape html in drilldown links (was only sanitized before) . #17731, @dehrax

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)

**Config**: Fix connectionstring for remote_cache in defaults.ini. #17675, @kylebrandt
**Elasticsearch**: Fix empty query (via template variable) should be sent as wildcard. #17488, @davewat
**HTTP-Server**: Fix Strict-Transport-Security header. #17644, @kylebrandt
**TablePanel**: fix annotations display. #17646, @ryantxu

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download) [What's New Highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/guides/whats-new-in-v6-2/) [Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v6-2-x/17037) # 6.2.5 (2019-05-25) ### Features / Enhancements * **Grafana-CLI**: Wrapper for `grafana-cli` within RPM/DEB packages and config/homepath are now global flags. [#17695](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/17695), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh) * **Panel**: Fully escape html in drilldown links (was only sanitized before) . [#17731](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/17731), [@dehrax](https://github.com/dehrax) ### Bug Fixes * **Config**: Fix connectionstring for remote_cache in defaults.ini. [#17675](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/17675), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt) * **Elasticsearch**: Fix empty query (via template variable) should be sent as wildcard. [#17488](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/17488), [@davewat](https://github.com/davewat) * **HTTP-Server**: Fix Strict-Transport-Security header. [#17644](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/17644), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt) * **TablePanel**: fix annotations display. [#17646](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/17646), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)

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