Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 9.1.6 (2022-09-20)
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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 v9.1.6. 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
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **Auth:** Trigger auth token cleanup job. (Enterprise)
- **DataSource:** Adding possibility to hide queries from the inspector. #54892, @mckn
- **Inspect:** Hide Actions tab when it is empty. #55272, @ryantxu
- **PanelMenu:** Remove hide legend action as it was showing on all panel types. #54876, @torkelo
- **Provisioning Contact points:** Support disableResolveMessage via YAML. #54122, @mmusenbr
- **PublicDashboards:** Support subpaths when generating pubdash url. #55204, @owensmallwood
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Fix legacy migration crash when rule name is too long. #55053, @alexweav
- **Alerting:** Fix send resolved notifications. #54793, @grobinson-grafana
- **Azure Monitor:** Fix migration issue with MetricDefinitionsQuery template variable query types. #55262, @yaelleC
- **Browse:** Hide dashboard actions if user does not have enough permission. #55218, @lpskdl
- **ElasticSearch:** Fix dispatching queries at a wrong time. #55225, @svennergr
- **Panel:** Disable legends when showLegend is false prior to schema v37. #55126, @ivanortegaalba
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/9.1.6)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Auth:** Trigger auth token cleanup job. (Enterprise)
- **DataSource:** Adding possibility to hide queries from the inspector. [#54892](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54892), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **Inspect:** Hide Actions tab when it is empty. [#55272](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55272), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
- **PanelMenu:** Remove hide legend action as it was showing on all panel types. [#54876](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54876), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Provisioning Contact points:** Support disableResolveMessage via YAML. [#54122](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54122), [@mmusenbr](https://github.com/mmusenbr)
- **PublicDashboards:** Support subpaths when generating pubdash url. [#55204](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55204), [@owensmallwood](https://github.com/owensmallwood)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix legacy migration crash when rule name is too long. [#55053](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55053), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Fix send resolved notifications. [#54793](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54793), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Azure Monitor:** Fix migration issue with MetricDefinitionsQuery template variable query types. [#55262](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55262), [@yaelleC](https://github.com/yaelleC)
- **Browse:** Hide dashboard actions if user does not have enough permission. [#55218](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55218), [@lpskdl](https://github.com/lpskdl)
- **ElasticSearch:** Fix dispatching queries at a wrong time. [#55225](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55225), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Panel:** Disable legends when showLegend is false prior to schema v37. [#55126](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55126), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Prometheus:** Fix metadata requests for browser access mode. [#55403](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55403), [@itsmylife](https://github.com/itsmylife)
- **Search:** Avoid requesting all dashboards when in Folder View. [#55169](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55169), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **TablePanel/StatPanel:** Fix values not being visible when background transparent. [#55092](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55092), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor)
- **AuthNZ:** Security fixes for CVE-2022-35957 and CVE-2022-36062. [#55515](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55515), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)