# Grafana v8.1.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.1.0
- **Released:** Aug 05, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.1.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.1.0. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **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
- **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