# Grafana v8.4.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.4.4
- **Released:** Mar 17, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.4.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.4.4. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **Loki:** Add unpack to autocomplete suggestions (#44623). #46573, @glintik
- **Plugins:** allow using both Function and Class components for app plugins. #46148, @leventebalogh
- **TimeSeries:** Add migration for Graph panel's transform series override. #46577, @dprokop
- **TimeSeries:** Preserve null/undefined values when performing negative y transform. #46584, @dprokop

## Bug Fixes
- **CloudWatch:** Use default http client from aws-sdk-go. #46370, @sunker
- **Dashboards:** Fixes repeating by row and no refresh. #46565, @torkelo
- **Gauge:** Fixes blank viz when data link exists and orientation was horizontal. #46335, @torkelo
- **Search:** sort results correctly when using postgres. #46466, @xlson
- **TagsInput:** fix tags remove button accessibility issues. #46254, @Elfo404
- **TextPanel:** Sanitize after markdown has been rendered to html. #46166, @ashharrison90