# Grafana v8.5.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v8.5.2
- **Released:** May 04, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v8.5.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.5.2. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **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
- **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