⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Grafana: 8.0.6 (2021-07-14)
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Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
Dashboard:** Avoid migration breaking on fieldConfig without defaults field in folded panel. [#36666](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36666), [@glindstedt](https://github.com/glindstedt)
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.0.6. 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.
⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- Dashboard:** Avoid migration breaking on fieldConfig without defaults field in folded panel. [#36666](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36666), [@glindstedt](https://github.com/glindstedt)
✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- **Alerting:** Add annotation upon alert state change. #36535, @davidmparrott
- **Alerting:** Allow space in label and annotation names. #36549, @codesome
- **InfluxDB:** Improve legend labels for InfluxDB query results. #36603, @gabor
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Fix improper alert by changing the handling of empty labels. #36679, @davidmparrott
- **CloudWatch/Logs:** Reestablish Cloud Watch alert behavior. #36558, @aocenas
- **Dashboard:** Avoid migration breaking on fieldConfig without defaults field in folded panel. #36666, @glindstedt
- **DashboardList:** Fix issue not re-fetching dashboard list after variable change. #36591, @torkelo
- **Database:** Fix incorrect format of isolation level configuration parameter for MySQL. #36565, @marefr
- **InfluxDB:** Correct tag filtering on InfluxDB data. #36570, @gabor
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.0.6)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
* **Alerting:** Add annotation upon alert state change. [#36535](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36535), [@davidmparrott](https://github.com/davidmparrott)
* **Alerting:** Allow space in label and annotation names. [#36549](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36549), [@codesome](https://github.com/codesome)
* **InfluxDB:** Improve legend labels for InfluxDB query results. [#36603](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36603), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
### Bug fixes
* **Alerting:** Fix improper alert by changing the handling of empty labels. [#36679](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36679), [@davidmparrott](https://github.com/davidmparrott)
* **CloudWatch/Logs:** Reestablish Cloud Watch alert behavior. [#36558](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36558), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
* **Dashboard:** Avoid migration breaking on fieldConfig without defaults field in folded panel. [#36666](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36666), [@glindstedt](https://github.com/glindstedt)
* **DashboardList:** Fix issue not re-fetching dashboard list after variable change. [#36591](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36591), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Database:** Fix incorrect format of isolation level configuration parameter for MySQL. [#36565](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36565), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
* **InfluxDB:** Correct tag filtering on InfluxDB data. [#36570](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36570), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
* **Links:** Fix links that caused a full page reload. [#36631](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36631), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Live:** Fix HTTP error when InfluxDB metrics have an incomplete or asymmetrical field set. [#36664](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36664), [@FZambia](https://github.com/FZambia)
* **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Change time field to "Time" for time series queries. [#36720](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36720), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
* **Postgres:** Fix the handling of a null return value in query results. [#36648](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36648), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
* **Tempo:** Show hex strings instead of uints for IDs. [#36471](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36471), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
* **TimeSeries:** Improve tooltip positioning when tooltip overflows. [#36440](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36440), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
* **Transformations:** add 'prepare time series' transformer. [#36737](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36737), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)