# Grafana v8.2.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.2.0
- **Released:** Oct 07, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.2.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.2.0. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **AWS:** Updated AWS authentication documentation. #39236, @sunker
- **Alerting:** Added support Alertmanager data source for upstream Prometheus AM implementation. #39775, @domasx2
- **Alerting:** Allows more characters in label names so notifications are sent. #38629, @gotjosh
- **Alerting:** Get alert rules for a dashboard or a panel using /api/v1/rules endpoints. #39476, @gerobinson
- **Annotations:** Improved rendering performance of event markers. #39984, @torkelo
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Skip caching for log queries. #39860, @aocenas

## Bug Fixes
- **CodeEditor:** Ensure that we trigger the latest onSave callback provided to the component. #39835, @mckn
- **DashboardList/AlertList:** Fix for missing All folder value. #39772, @hugohaggmark
- **Plugins:** Create a mock icon component to prevent console errors. #39901, @jackw