# Grafana v8.0.6 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.0.6
- **Released:** Jul 15, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.0.6/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.0.6. Source highlight: Download page

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- 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
- **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
- **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