# Grafana v7.0.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v7.0.0
- **Released:** May 18, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v7.0.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v7.0.0. Source highlight: Download Page

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes - **Removed PhantomJS**: PhantomJS was deprecated in [Grafana v6.4](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/guides/whats-new-in-v6-4/#phantomjs-deprecation) and starting from Grafana v7.0.0, all PhantomJS support has been removed. This means that Grafana no longer ships with a built-in image renderer, and we advise you to install the [Grafana Image Renderer plugin](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-image-renderer).
- - **Forms**: Remove Forms namespace [BREAKING]. Will cause all `Forms` imports to stop working. See migration guide in [@grafana/ui changelog](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/packages/grafana-ui/CHANGELOG.md)[#24378](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/24378), [@tskarhed](https://github.com/tskarhed)
- - **grafana/data**: PanelTypeChangedHandler API update to use PanelModel instead of panel options object [BREAKING]. [#22754](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/22754), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)

## New Features
- Scripted dashboards is now deprecated. The feature is not removed but will be in a future release. We hope to address the underlying requirement of dynamic dashboards in a different way. #24059
- **Azure Monitor**: Deep linking from Log Analytic queries to the Azure Portal. #24417, @daniellee
- **Backend plugins**: Log deprecation warning when using the unofficial first version of backend plugins. #24675, @marefr
- **CloudWatch/Logs**: Add data links to CloudWatch logs for deep linking to AWS. #24334, @kaydelaney
- **CloudWatch**: Unify look of query mode select between dashboard and explore. #24648, @aocenas
- **Docker**: Adds tzdata package to Ubuntu image. #24422, @xlson

## Bug Fixes
- **@grafana/toolkit**: Use process.cwd() instead of PWD to get directory. #24677, @zoltanbedi
- **Admin**: Makes long settings values line break in settings page. #24559, @hugohaggmark
- **Azure Monitor**: Fix failure when using table join in Log Analytics queries. #24528, @daniellee
- **CloudWatch/Logs**: Add error message when log groups are not selected. #24361, @aocenas
- **CloudWatch/Logs**: Allows a user to search for log groups that aren't there initially. #24695, @kaydelaney
- **CloudWatch/Logs**: Correctly interpolate variables in logs queries. #24619, @kaydelaney