# Grafana v6.5.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v6.5.0
- **Released:** Nov 25, 2019
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v6.5.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v6.5.0. Source highlight: Download Page

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes * **CloudWatch**: Pre Grafana 6.5.0, the CloudWatch datasource used the GetMetricStatistics API for all queries that did not have an ´id´ and did not have an ´expression´ defined in the query editor. The GetMetricStatistics API has a limit of 400 transactions per second. In this release, all queries use the GetMetricData API. The GetMetricData API has a limit of 50 transactions per second and 100 metrics per transaction. Also the GetMetricData API pricing is different from GetMetricStatistics. While GetMetricStatistics qualified for the CloudWatch API free tier, this is not th

## New Features
- **CloudWatch**: Add curated dashboards for most popular amazon services. #20486, @sunker
- **CloudWatch**: Enable Min time interval. #20260, @mtanda
- **Explore**: UI improvements for log details. #20485, @ivanahuckova
- **Server**: Improve grafana-server diagnostics configuration for profiling and tracing. #20593, @papagian

## Bug Fixes
- **BarGauge/Gauge**: Add back missing title option field display options. #20616, @torkelo
- **CloudWatch**: Fix high CPU load. #20579, @marefr
- **CloudWatch**: Fix high resolution mode without expression. #20459, @mtanda
- **CloudWatch**: Make sure period variable is being interpreted correctly. #20447, @sunker
- **CloudWatch**: Remove HighResolution toggle since it's not being used. #20440, @sunker
- **Cloudwatch**: Fix LaunchTime attribute tag bug. #20237, @sunker