Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.3.3 (2021-12-10)
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.3.3. 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.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- **BarChart:** Use new data error view component to show actions in panel edit. #42474, @torkelo
- **CloudMonitor:** Iterate over pageToken for resources. #42546, @iwysiu
- **Macaron:** Prevent WriteHeader invalid HTTP status code panic. #42973, @bergquist
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **AnnoListPanel:** Fix interpolation of variables in tags. #42318, @francoisdtm
- **CloudWatch:** Allow queries to have no dimensions specified. #42800, @sunker
- **CloudWatch:** Fix broken queries for users migrating from 8.2.4/8.2.5 to 8.3.0. #42611, @sunker
- **CloudWatch:** Make sure MatchExact flag gets the right value. #42621, @sunker
- **Dashboards:** Fix so that empty folders can be deleted from the manage dashboards/folders page. #42527, @ashharrison90
- **InfluxDB:** Improve handling of metadata query errors in InfluxQL. #42500, @gabor
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.3.3)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **BarChart:** Use new data error view component to show actions in panel edit. [#42474](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42474), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **CloudMonitor:** Iterate over pageToken for resources. [#42546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42546), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Macaron:** Prevent WriteHeader invalid HTTP status code panic. [#42973](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42973), [@bergquist](https://github.com/bergquist)
### Bug fixes
- **AnnoListPanel:** Fix interpolation of variables in tags. [#42318](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42318), [@francoisdtm](https://github.com/francoisdtm)
- **CloudWatch:** Allow queries to have no dimensions specified. [#42800](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42800), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CloudWatch:** Fix broken queries for users migrating from 8.2.4/8.2.5 to 8.3.0. [#42611](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42611), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **CloudWatch:** Make sure MatchExact flag gets the right value. [#42621](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42621), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboards:** Fix so that empty folders can be deleted from the manage dashboards/folders page. [#42527](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42527), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **InfluxDB:** Improve handling of metadata query errors in InfluxQL. [#42500](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42500), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Fix adding of ad hoc filters for queries with parser and line_format expressions. [#42590](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42590), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** Fix running of exemplar queries for non-histogram metrics. [#42749](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42749), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** Interpolate template variables in interval. [#42637](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42637), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **StateTimeline:** Fix toolitp not showing when for frames with multiple fields. [#42741](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42741), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **TraceView:** Fix virtualized scrolling when trace view is opened in right pane in Explore. [#42480](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42480), [@autoric](https://github.com/autoric)
- **Variables:** Fix repeating panels for on time range changed variables. [#42828](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42828), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Variables:** Fix so queryparam option works for scoped variables. [#42742](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42742), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)