Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.1.3 (2021-09-08)
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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 v8.1.3. 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.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Fix alert flapping in the internal alertmanager. #38648, @gotjosh
- **Alerting:** Fix request handler failed to convert dataframe "results" to plugins.DataTimeSeriesSlice: input frame is not recognized as a time series. #38587, @idafurjes
- **Dashboard:** Fix UIDs are not preserved when importing/creating dashboards thru importing .json file. #38659, @axelavargas
- **Dashboard:** Forces panel re-render when exiting panel edit. #38913, @hugohaggmark
- **Dashboard:** Prevent folder from changing when navigating to general settings. #38103, @hugohaggmark
- **Docker:** Force use of libcrypto1.1 and libssl1.1 versions to fix CVE-2021-3711. #38585, @dsotirakis
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.1.3)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix alert flapping in the internal alertmanager. [#38648](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38648), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Fix request handler failed to convert dataframe "results" to plugins.DataTimeSeriesSlice: input frame is not recognized as a time series. [#38587](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38587), [@idafurjes](https://github.com/idafurjes)
- **Dashboard:** Fix UIDs are not preserved when importing/creating dashboards thru importing .json file. [#38659](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38659), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Dashboard:** Forces panel re-render when exiting panel edit. [#38913](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38913), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Dashboard:** Prevent folder from changing when navigating to general settings. [#38103](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38103), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Docker:** Force use of libcrypto1.1 and libssl1.1 versions to fix CVE-2021-3711. [#38585](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38585), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Elasticsearch:** Fix metric names for alert queries. [#38546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38546), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **Elasticsearch:** Limit Histogram field parameter to numeric values. [#38631](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38631), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Elasticsearch:** Prevent pipeline aggregations to show up in terms order by options. [#38448](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38448), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **LibraryPanels:** Prevent duplicate repeated panels from being created. [#38804](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38804), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Loki:** Fix ad-hoc filter in dashboard when used with parser. [#38542](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38542), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Plugins:** Track signed files + add warn log for plugin assets which are not signed. [#38938](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38938), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Fix region annotations not displayed correctly. [#38936](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38936), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Prometheus:** Fix validate selector in metrics browser. [#38921](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38921), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)