Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.1.0 (2021-08-05)
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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 v8.1.0. 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 (4)
- **Alerting:** Deduplicate receivers during migration. #36812, @codesome
- **ColorPicker:** Display colors as RGBA. #37231, @nikki-kiga
- **Select:** Make portalling the menu opt-in, but opt-in *everywhere*. #37501, @ashharrison90
- **TimeRangePicker:** Improve accessibility. #36912, @tskarhed
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Annotations:** Correct annotations that are displayed upon page refresh. #37496, @axelavargas
- **Annotations:** Fix **Enabled** button that disappeared from Grafana v8.0.6. #37454, @axelavargas
- **Annotations:** Fix data source template variable that was not available for annotations. #37506, @axelavargas
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix annotations query editor that does not load. #37476, @torkelo
- **Geomap:** Fix scale calculations. #37375, @ryantxu
- **GraphNG:** Fix y-axis autosizing. #37464, @leeoniya
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.1.0)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
* **Alerting:** Deduplicate receivers during migration. [#36812](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36812), [@codesome](https://github.com/codesome)
* **ColorPicker:** Display colors as RGBA. [#37231](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37231), [@nikki-kiga](https://github.com/nikki-kiga)
* **Select:** Make portalling the menu opt-in, but opt-in *everywhere*. [#37501](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37501), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
* **TimeRangePicker:** Improve accessibility. [#36912](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36912), [@tskarhed](https://github.com/tskarhed)
### Bug fixes
* **Annotations:** Correct annotations that are displayed upon page refresh. [#37496](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37496), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
* **Annotations:** Fix **Enabled** button that disappeared from Grafana v8.0.6. [#37454](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37454), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
* **Annotations:** Fix data source template variable that was not available for annotations. [#37506](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37506), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
* **AzureMonitor:** Fix annotations query editor that does not load. [#37476](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37476), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Geomap:** Fix scale calculations. [#37375](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37375), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
* **GraphNG:** Fix y-axis autosizing. [#37464](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37464), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
* **Live:** Display stream rate and fix duplicate channels in list response. [#37365](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37365), [@FZambia](https://github.com/FZambia)
* **Loki:** Update labels in log browser when time range changes. [#37520](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37520), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
* **Loki:** Update labels in log browser when time range changes in dashboard. [#37541](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37541), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
* **NGAlert:** Send resolve signal to alertmanager on alerting -> Normal. [#37363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37363), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
* **PasswordField:** Prevent a password from being displayed when you click the Enter button. [#37444](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37444), [@tskarhed](https://github.com/tskarhed)
* **Renderer:** Remove debug.log file when Grafana is stopped. [#37367](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37367), [@AgnesToulet](https://github.com/AgnesToulet)
* **Security:** Update dependencies to fix CVE-2021-36222. [#37546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/37546), [@ying-jeanne](https://github.com/ying-jeanne)