Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 9.0.5 (2022-07-26)
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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 v9.0.5. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (5)
- **Access control:** Show dashboard settings to users who can edit dashboard. #52535, @grafanabot
- **Alerting:** Allow the webhook notifier to support a custom Authorization header. #52515, @gotjosh
- **Chore:** Upgrade to Go version 1.17.12. #52523, @sakjur
- **Plugins:** Add signature wildcard globbing for dedicated private plugin type. #52163, @wbrowne
- **Prometheus:** Don't show errors from unsuccessful API checks like rules or exemplar checks. #52193, @darrenjaneczek
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Access control:** Allow organisation admins to add existing users to org (#51668). #52553, @vtorosyan
- **Alerting:** Fix alert panel instance-based rules filtering. #52583, @konrad147
- **Apps:** Fixes navigation between different app plugin pages. #52571, @torkelo
- **Cloudwatch:** Upgrade grafana-aws-sdk to fix auth issue with secret keys. #52420, @sarahzinger
- **Grafana/toolkit:** Fix incorrect image and font generation for plugin builds. #52661, @academo
- **Loki:** Fix `show context` not working in some occasions. #52458, @svennergr
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/9.0.5)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Access control:** Show dashboard settings to users who can edit dashboard. [#52535](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52535), [@grafanabot](https://github.com/grafanabot)
- **Alerting:** Allow the webhook notifier to support a custom Authorization header. [#52515](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52515), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Chore:** Upgrade to Go version 1.17.12. [#52523](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52523), [@sakjur](https://github.com/sakjur)
- **Plugins:** Add signature wildcard globbing for dedicated private plugin type. [#52163](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52163), [@wbrowne](https://github.com/wbrowne)
- **Prometheus:** Don't show errors from unsuccessful API checks like rules or exemplar checks. [#52193](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52193), [@darrenjaneczek](https://github.com/darrenjaneczek)
### Bug fixes
- **Access control:** Allow organisation admins to add existing users to org (#51668). [#52553](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52553), [@vtorosyan](https://github.com/vtorosyan)
- **Alerting:** Fix alert panel instance-based rules filtering. [#52583](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52583), [@konrad147](https://github.com/konrad147)
- **Apps:** Fixes navigation between different app plugin pages. [#52571](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52571), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Cloudwatch:** Upgrade grafana-aws-sdk to fix auth issue with secret keys. [#52420](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52420), [@sarahzinger](https://github.com/sarahzinger)
- **Grafana/toolkit:** Fix incorrect image and font generation for plugin builds. [#52661](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52661), [@academo](https://github.com/academo)
- **Loki:** Fix `show context` not working in some occasions. [#52458](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52458), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **RBAC:** Fix permissions on dashboards and folders created by anonymous users. [#52615](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/52615), [@gamab](https://github.com/gamab)