# Grafana v8.5.11 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.5.11
- **Released:** Aug 30, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.5.11/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.5.11. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **Rendering:** Add support for renderer token (#54425). #54438, @joanlopez
- **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** AlertingProxy to elevate permissions for request forwarded to data proxy when RBAC enabled. #53681, @yuri-tceretian