Grafana: 8.5.4 (2022-05-30)

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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)

**Alerting:** Remove disabled flag for data source when migrating alerts. #48559, @yuri-tceretian
**Alerting:** Show notification tab of legacy alerting only to editor. #49624, @yuri-tceretian
**Alerting:** Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. #49192, @yuri-tceretian
**AzureMonitor:** Do not quote variables when a custom "All" variable option is used. #49428, @andresmgot
**AzureMonitor:** Update allowed namespaces. #48468, @jcolladokuri
**CloudMonitor:** Correctly encode default project response. #49510, @aangelisc

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

**Alerting:** Allow disabling override timings for notification policies. #48648, @gillesdemey
**Alerting:** Allow serving images from custom url path. #49022, @gillesdemey
**Alerting:** Apply Custom Headers to datasource queries. #47860, @joeblubaugh
**Alerting:** Fix RBAC actions for notification policies. #49185, @yuri-tceretian
**Alerting:** Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. #49270, @yuri-tceretian
**Alerting:** Fix anonymous access to alerting. #49203, @yuri-tceretian

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[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.5.4) [What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/) ### Features and enhancements - **Alerting:** Remove disabled flag for data source when migrating alerts. [#48559](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48559), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) - **Alerting:** Show notification tab of legacy alerting only to editor. [#49624](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49624), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) - **Alerting:** Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. [#49192](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49192), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) - **AzureMonitor:** Do not quote variables when a custom "All" variable option is used. [#49428](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49428), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot) - **AzureMonitor:** Update allowed namespaces. [#48468](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48468), [@jcolladokuri](https://github.com/jcolladokuri) - **CloudMonitor:** Correctly encode default project response. [#49510](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49510), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc) - **Cloudwatch:** Add support for new AWS/RDS EBS* metrics. [#48798](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48798), [@szymonpk](https://github.com/szymonpk) - **InfluxDB:** Use backend for influxDB by default via feature toggle. [#48453](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48453), [@yesoreyeram](https://github.com/yesoreyeram) - **Legend:** Use correct unit for percent and count calculations. [#49004](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49004), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop) - **LokI:** use millisecond steps in Grafana 8.5.x. [#48630](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48630), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor) - **Plugins:** Introduce HTTP 207 Multi Status response to api/ds/query. [#48550](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48550), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne) - **Reporting:** Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise) - **Transformations:** Add an All Unique Values Reducer. [#48653](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48653), [@josiahg](https://github.com/josiahg) - **Transformers:** avoid error when the ExtractFields source field is missing. [#49368](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49368), [@wardbekker](https://github.com/wardbekker) - **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. [#49199](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49199), [@grafanabot](https://github.com/grafanabot) - **[v8.5.x] Reporting:** Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise) ### Bug fixes - **Alerting:** Allow disabling override timings for notification policies. [#48648](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48648), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey) - **Alerting:** Allow serving images from custom url path. [#49022](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49022), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey) - **Alerting:** Apply Custom Headers to datasource queries. [#47860](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/47860), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh) - **Alerting:** Fix RBAC actions for notification policies. [#49185](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49185), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) - **Alerting:** Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. [#49270](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49270), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) - **Alerting:** Fix anonymous access to alerting. [#49203](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49203), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) - **Alerting:** correctly show all alerts in a folder. [#48684](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48684), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey) - **AzureMonitor:** Fixes metric definition for Azure Storage queue/file/blob/table resources. [#49101](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49101), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc) - **Dashboard:** Fix dashboard update permission check. [#48746](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48746), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva) - **DashboardExport:** Fix exporting and importing dashboards where query data source ended up as incorrect. [#48410](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48410), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo) - **FileUpload:** clicking the `Upload file` button now opens the modal correctly. [#48766](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48766), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90) - **GrafanaUI:** Fix color of links in error Tooltips in light theme. [#49327](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49327), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt) - **LibraryPanels:** Fix library panels not connecting properly in imported dashboards. [#49161](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49161), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt) - **Loki:** Improve unpack parser handling. [#49074](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49074), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor) - **RolePicker:** Fix menu position on smaller screens. [#48429](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48429), [@Clarity-89](https://github.com/Clarity-89) - **TimeRange:** Fixes updating time range from url and browser history. [#48657](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48657), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo) - **TimeSeries:** Fix detection & rendering of sparse datapoints. [#48841](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48841), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya) - **Timeseries:** Fix outside range stale state. [#49633](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49633), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu) - **Tooltip:** Fix links not legible in Tooltips when using light theme. [#48748](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/48748), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt) - **Tooltip:** Sort decimals using standard numeric compare. [#49084](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49084), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop) - **Transforms:** Labels to fields, fix label picker layout. [#49304](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49304), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo) - **Variables:** Fixes issue with data source variables not updating queries with variable. [#49478](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49478), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo) - **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** Fix RBAC actions for notification policies (#49185). [#49348](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49348), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) - **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. [#49427](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49427), [@konrad147](https://github.com/konrad147) - **[v8.5.x] Alerting:** Fix anonymous access to alerting. [#49268](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/49268), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian) ### Breaking changes For a data source query made via /api/ds/query : - If the `DatasourceQueryMultiStatus` feature is enabled and - The data source response has an error set as part of the `DataResponse`, the resulting HTTP status code is now `207 Multi Status` instead of `400 Bad gateway` - If the `DatasourceQueryMultiStatus` feature is **not** enabled and - The data source response has an error set as part of the `DataResponse`, the resulting HTTP status code is `400 Bad Request` (no breaking change) --> Issue [#48550](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/48550)

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