Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 7.4.1 (2021-02-11)
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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 v7.4.1. 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 (3)
- **Influx**: Make max series limit configurable and show the limiting message if applied. #31025, @aocenas
- **Make value mappings correctly interpret numeric-like strings**. #30893, @dprokop
- **Variables**: Adds queryparam formatting option. #30858, @hugohaggmark
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting**: Fixes so notification channels are properly deleted. #31040, @hugohaggmark
- **BarGauge**: Improvements to value sizing and table inner width calculations. #30990, @torkelo
- **DashboardLinks**: Fixes crash when link has no title. #31008, @hugohaggmark
- **Elasticsearch**: Fix alias field value not being shown in query editor. #30992, @Elfo404
- **Elasticsearch**: Fix log row context errors. #31088, @Elfo404
- **Elasticsearch**: Show Size setting for raw_data metric. #30980, @Elfo404
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/7.4.1)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
* **Influx**: Make max series limit configurable and show the limiting message if applied. [#31025](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31025), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
* **Make value mappings correctly interpret numeric-like strings**. [#30893](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30893), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
* **Variables**: Adds queryparam formatting option. [#30858](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30858), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
### Bug fixes
* **Alerting**: Fixes so notification channels are properly deleted. [#31040](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31040), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **BarGauge**: Improvements to value sizing and table inner width calculations. [#30990](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30990), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **DashboardLinks**: Fixes crash when link has no title. [#31008](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31008), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Elasticsearch**: Fix alias field value not being shown in query editor. [#30992](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30992), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
* **Elasticsearch**: Fix log row context errors. [#31088](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31088), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
* **Elasticsearch**: Show Size setting for raw_data metric. [#30980](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30980), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
* **Graph**: Fixes so graph is shown for non numeric time values. [#30972](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30972), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Logging**: Ignore 'file already closed' error when closing file. [#31119](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31119), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
* **Plugins**: Fix plugin signature validation for manifest v2 on Windows. [#31045](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31045), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
* **TextPanel**: Fixes so panel title is updated when variables change. [#30884](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/30884), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Transforms**: Fixes Outer join issue with duplicate field names not getting the same unique field names as before. [#31121](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/31121), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)