Grafana: 8.5.2 (2022-05-03)

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✨ Features 4 🔧 Bug Fixes 3

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Grafana v8.5.2. Source highlight: Download page

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (4)

**Alerting:** Add safeguard for migrations that might cause dataloss. #48526, @JohnnyQQQQ
**AzureMonitor:** Add support for not equals and startsWith operators when creating Azure Metrics dimension filters. #48077, @aangelisc
**Elasticsearch:** Add deprecation notice for < 7.10 versions. #48506, @ivanahuckova
**Traces:** Filter by service/span name and operation in Tempo and Jaeger. #48209, @joey-grafana

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)

**AzureAd Oauth:** Fix strictMode to reject users without an assigned role. #48474, @kyschouv
**CloudWatch:** Fix variable query tag migration. #48587, @iwysiu
**Plugins:** Ensure catching all appropriate 4xx api/ds/query scenarios. #47565, @wbrowne

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.5.2) [What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/) ### Features and enhancements - **Alerting:** Add safeguard for migrations that might cause dataloss. [#48526](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48526), [@JohnnyQQQQ](https://github.com/JohnnyQQQQ) - **AzureMonitor:** Add support for not equals and startsWith operators when creating Azure Metrics dimension filters. [#48077](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48077), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc) - **Elasticsearch:** Add deprecation notice for < 7.10 versions. [#48506](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48506), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova) - **Traces:** Filter by service/span name and operation in Tempo and Jaeger. [#48209](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48209), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana) ### Bug fixes - **AzureAd Oauth:** Fix strictMode to reject users without an assigned role. [#48474](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48474), [@kyschouv](https://github.com/kyschouv) - **CloudWatch:** Fix variable query tag migration. [#48587](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48587), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu) - **Plugins:** Ensure catching all appropriate 4xx api/ds/query scenarios. [#47565](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47565), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)

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