# Grafana v8.2.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.2.2
- **Released:** Oct 21, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.2.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.2.2. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **Annotations:** We have improved tag search performance. #40567, @ashharrison90
- **Application:** You can now configure an error-template title. #40310, @benrubson
- **AzureMonitor:** We removed a restriction from the resource filter query. #40690, @andresmgot
- **Caching:** Make cache size metric collection optional. (Enterprise)
- **Packaging:** We removed the ProcSubset option in systemd. This option prevented Grafana from starting in LXC environments. #40339, @kminehart
- **Prometheus:** We removed the autocomplete limit for metrics. #39363, @ivanahuckova

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix panic when Slack's API sends unexpected response. #40721, @santihernandezc
- **Alerting:** The Create Alert button now appears on the dashboard panel when you are working with a default datasource. #40334, @domasx2
- **Explore:** We fixed the problem where the Explore log panel disappears when an Elasticsearch logs query returns no results. #40217, @Elfo404
- **Graph:** You can now see annotation descriptions on hover. #40581, @axelavargas
- **Logs:** The system now uses the JSON parser only if the line is parsed to an object. #40507, @ivanahuckova
- **Prometheus:** We fixed the issue where the system did not reuse TCP connections when querying from Grafana alerting. #40349, @kminehart