Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 9.0.4 (2022-07-20)
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Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v9.0.4. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **Browse/Search:** Make browser back work properly when visiting Browse or search. #52271, @torkelo
- **Logs:** Improve getLogRowContext API. #52130, @gabor
- **Loki:** Improve handling of empty responses. #52397, @gabor
- **Plugins:** Always validate root URL if specified in signature manfiest. #52332, @wbrowne
- **Preferences:** Get home dashboard from teams. #52225, @sakjur
- **SQLStore:** Support Upserting multiple rows. #52228, @joeblubaugh
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Access Control:** Fix missing folder permissions. #52410, @IevaVasiljeva
- **Access control:** Fix org user removal for OSS users. #52473, @IevaVasiljeva
- **Alerting:** Fix Slack notification preview. #50230, @ekrucio
- **Alerting:** Fix Slack push notifications. #52391, @grobinson-grafana
- **Alerting:** Fixes slack push notifications. #50267, @jgillick
- **Alerting:** Preserve new-lines from custom email templates in rendered email. #52253, @alexweav
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/9.0.4)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Browse/Search:** Make browser back work properly when visiting Browse or search. [#52271](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52271), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Logs:** Improve getLogRowContext API. [#52130](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52130), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Loki:** Improve handling of empty responses. [#52397](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52397), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Plugins:** Always validate root URL if specified in signature manfiest. [#52332](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52332), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Preferences:** Get home dashboard from teams. [#52225](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52225), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **SQLStore:** Support Upserting multiple rows. [#52228](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52228), [@joeblubaugh](https://github.com/joeblubaugh)
- **Traces:** Add more template variables in Tempo & Zipkin. [#52306](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52306), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
- **Traces:** Remove serviceMap feature flag. [#52375](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52375), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
### Bug fixes
- **Access Control:** Fix missing folder permissions. [#52410](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52410), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Access control:** Fix org user removal for OSS users. [#52473](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52473), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)
- **Alerting:** Fix Slack notification preview. [#50230](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50230), [@ekrucio](https://github.com/ekrucio)
- **Alerting:** Fix Slack push notifications. [#52391](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52391), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Fixes slack push notifications. [#50267](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50267), [@jgillick](https://github.com/jgillick)
- **Alerting:** Preserve new-lines from custom email templates in rendered email. [#52253](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52253), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Insights:** Fix dashboard and data source insights pages. (Enterprise)
- **Log:** Fix text logging for unsupported types. [#51306](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51306), [@papagian](https://github.com/papagian)
- **Loki:** Fix `show context` not working in some occasions. [#52458](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52458), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Loki:** Fix incorrect TopK value type in query builder. [#52226](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52226), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)