Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v7.1.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v7.1.2. Source highlight: Download Page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- **Explore**: Don't run queries on datasource change. #26033, @davkal
- **TemplateSrv**: Formatting options for ${__from} and ${__to}, unix seconds epoch, ISO 8601/RFC 3339. #26466, @torkelo
- **Toolkit/Plugin**: throw an Error instead of a string. #26618, @leventebalogh
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Dashbard**: Fix refresh interval settings to allow setting it to equal min_refresh_interval. #26615, @torkelo
- **Flux**: Ensure connections to InfluxDB are closed. #26735, @sneddrs
- **Query history**: Fix search filtering if null value. #26768, @ivanahuckova
- **QueryOptions**: Fix not being able to change cache timeout setting. #26614, @torkelo
- **StatPanel**: Fix stat panel display name not showing when explicitly set. #26616, @torkelo
- **Templating**: Fixed access to system variables like __dashboard, __user & __org during dashboard load & variable queries. #26637, @torkelo
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/7.1.2)
[What's New Highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/guides/whats-new-in-v7-1/)
[Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v7-1-x/32967)
### Features / Enhancements
* **Explore**: Don't run queries on datasource change. [#26033](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26033), [@davkal](https://github.com/davkal)
* **TemplateSrv**: Formatting options for ${__from} and ${__to}, unix seconds epoch, ISO 8601/RFC 3339. [#26466](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26466), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Toolkit/Plugin**: throw an Error instead of a string. [#26618](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26618), [@leventebalogh](https://github.com/leventebalogh)
### Bug Fixes
* **Dashbard**: Fix refresh interval settings to allow setting it to equal min_refresh_interval. [#26615](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26615), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Flux**: Ensure connections to InfluxDB are closed. [#26735](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26735), [@sneddrs](https://github.com/sneddrs)
* **Query history**: Fix search filtering if null value. [#26768](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26768), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
* **QueryOptions**: Fix not being able to change cache timeout setting. [#26614](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26614), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **StatPanel**: Fix stat panel display name not showing when explicitly set. [#26616](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26616), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Templating**: Fixed access to system variables like __dashboard, __user & __org during dashboard load & variable queries. [#26637](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26637), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **TextPanel**: Fix content overflowing panel boundaries. [#26612](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26612), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **TimePicker**: Fix position and responsive behavior. [#26570](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26570), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **TimePicker**: Fixes app crash when changing custom range to nothing. [#26775](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26775), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Units**: Remove duplicate SI prefix from mSv and µSv. [#26598](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26598), [@tofurky](https://github.com/tofurky)