Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 7.4.0 (2021-02-04)
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Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v7.4.0. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **CDN**: Adds support for serving assets over a CDN. #30691, @torkelo
- **DashboardLinks**: Support variable expression in to tooltip - Issue #30409. #30569, @huynhsamha
- **Explore**: Set Explore's GraphNG to be connected. #30707, @ivanahuckova
- **InfluxDB**: Add http configuration when selecting InfluxDB v2 flavor. #30827, @aocenas
- **InfluxDB**: Show all datapoints for dynamically windowed flux query. #30688, @davkal
- **Loki**: Improve live tailing errors. #30517, @ivanahuckova
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Admin**: Fixes so form values are filled in from backend. #30544, @hugohaggmark
- **Admin**: Fixes so whole org drop down is visible when adding users to org. #30481, @hugohaggmark
- **Alerting**: Hides threshold handle for percentual thresholds. #30431, @hugohaggmark
- **CloudWatch**: Prevent field config from being overwritten. #30437, @sunker
- **Decimals**: Big Improvements to auto decimals and fixes to auto decimals bug found in 7.4-beta1. #30519, @torkelo
- **Explore**: Fix jumpy live tailing. #30650, @ivanahuckova
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/7.4.0)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
* **CDN**: Adds support for serving assets over a CDN. [#30691](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30691), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **DashboardLinks**: Support variable expression in to tooltip - Issue #30409. [#30569](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30569), [@huynhsamha](https://github.com/huynhsamha)
* **Explore**: Set Explore's GraphNG to be connected. [#30707](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30707), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
* **InfluxDB**: Add http configuration when selecting InfluxDB v2 flavor. [#30827](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30827), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
* **InfluxDB**: Show all datapoints for dynamically windowed flux query. [#30688](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30688), [@davkal](https://github.com/davkal)
* **Loki**: Improve live tailing errors. [#30517](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30517), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
### Bug fixes
* **Admin**: Fixes so form values are filled in from backend. [#30544](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30544), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Admin**: Fixes so whole org drop down is visible when adding users to org. [#30481](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30481), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Alerting**: Hides threshold handle for percentual thresholds. [#30431](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30431), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **CloudWatch**: Prevent field config from being overwritten. [#30437](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30437), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
* **Decimals**: Big Improvements to auto decimals and fixes to auto decimals bug found in 7.4-beta1. [#30519](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30519), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Explore**: Fix jumpy live tailing. [#30650](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30650), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
* **Explore**: Fix loading visualisation on the top of the new time series panel. [#30553](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30553), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
* **Footer**: Fixes layout issue in footer. [#30443](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30443), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Graph**: Fixes so only users with correct permissions can add annotations. [#30419](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30419), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Mobile**: Fixes issue scrolling on mobile in chrome. [#30746](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30746), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **PanelEdit**: Trigger refresh when changing data source. [#30744](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30744), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Panels**: Fixes so panels are refreshed when scrolling past them fast. [#30784](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30784), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Prometheus**: Fix show query instead of Value if no __name__ and metric. [#30511](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30511), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
* **TimeSeriesPanel**: Fixes default value for Gradient mode. [#30484](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30484), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Variables**: Clears drop down state when leaving dashboard. [#30810](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30810), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Variables**: Fixes display value when using capture groups in regex. [#30636](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30636), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Variables**: Fixes so queries work for numbers values too. [#30602](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30602), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Variables**: Fixes so text format will show All instead of custom all value. [#30730](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30730), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
* **Plugins**: Fix failing plugin builds because of wrong internal import. [#30439](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30439), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)