Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 7.5.5 (2021-04-28)
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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 v7.5.5. 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 (2)
- **Explore**: Load default data source in Explore when the provided source does not exist. #32992, @ifrost
- **Instrumentation**: Add success rate metrics for email notifications. #33359, @bergquist
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting**: Remove field limitation from Slack notifications. #33113, @dsotirakis
- **Auth**: Do not clear auth token cookie when token lookup fails. #32999, @marefr
- **Bug**: Add git command to Dockerfile.ubuntu file. #33247, @dsotirakis
- **Explore**: Adjust time to the selected timezone. #33315, @ifrost
- **GraphNG**: Fix exemplars window position. #33427, @zoltanbedi
- **Loki**: Pass Skip TLS Verify setting to alert queries. #33025, @ivanahuckova
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/7.5.5)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
* **Explore**: Load default data source in Explore when the provided source does not exist. [#32992](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32992), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
* **Instrumentation**: Add success rate metrics for email notifications. [#33359](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33359), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
### Bug fixes
* **Alerting**: Remove field limitation from Slack notifications. [#33113](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33113), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
* **Auth**: Do not clear auth token cookie when token lookup fails. [#32999](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/32999), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
* **Bug**: Add git command to Dockerfile.ubuntu file. [#33247](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33247), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
* **Explore**: Adjust time to the selected timezone. [#33315](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33315), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
* **GraphNG**: Fix exemplars window position. [#33427](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33427), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
* **Loki**: Pass Skip TLS Verify setting to alert queries. [#33025](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33025), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
* **Postgres**: Fix time group macro when TimescaleDB is enabled and interval is less than a second. [#33153](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/33153), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)