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Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0-beta1
Features and enhancements
- Alerting: Support WeCom as a contact point type. #40975, @smallpath
- Alerting: UI for mute timings. #41578, @nathanrodman
- Alerting: add settings for peer reconnection in HA mode. #42300, @JohnnyQQQQ
- Auth: implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. #37040, @Roguelazer
- Dashboard: Add Show unknown variables toggle to dashboard settings. #41854, @hugohaggmark
- Instrumentation: Logger migration from log15 to gokit/log. #41636, @ying-jeanne
- MSSQL: Change regex to validate Provider connection string. #40248, @ianselmi
- MSSQL: Configuration of certificate verification for TLS connection. #31865, @mortenaa
- Middleware: Don’t require HTTPS for HSTS headers to be emitted. #35147, @alexmv
- Navigation: Implement Keyboard Navigation. #41618, @axelavargas
- News: Reload feed when changing the time range or refreshing. #42217, @ashharrison90
- UI/Plot: Implement keyboard controls for plot cursor. #42244, @kaydelaney
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