Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.1.4 (2021-09-16)
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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 v8.1.4. 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
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- **Explore:** Ensure logs volume bar colors match legend colors. #39072, @ifrost
- **LDAP:** Search all DNs for users. #38891, @sakjur
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Fix notification channel migration. #38983, @papagian
- **Annotations:** Fix blank panels for queries with unknown data sources. #39017, @hugohaggmark
- **BarChart:** Fix stale values and x axis labels. #39188, @leeoniya
- **Graph:** Make old graph panel thresholds work even if ngalert is enabled. #38918, @domasx2
- **InfluxDB:** Fix regex to identify `/` as separator. #39185, @dsotirakis
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix update issues related to library panels in rows. #38963, @hugohaggmark
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.1.4)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Explore:** Ensure logs volume bar colors match legend colors. [#39072](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39072), [@ifrost](https://github.com/ifrost)
- **LDAP:** Search all DNs for users. [#38891](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38891), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix notification channel migration. [#38983](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38983), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Annotations:** Fix blank panels for queries with unknown data sources. [#39017](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39017), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **BarChart:** Fix stale values and x axis labels. [#39188](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39188), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Graph:** Make old graph panel thresholds work even if ngalert is enabled. [#38918](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38918), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **InfluxDB:** Fix regex to identify `/` as separator. [#39185](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39185), [@dsotirakis](https://github.com/dsotirakis)
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix update issues related to library panels in rows. [#38963](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38963), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables:** Fix variables not updating inside a Panel when the preceding Row uses "Repeat For". [#38935](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38935), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)