The Grafana Image Renderer has been revamped in its v5.0 release, focusing on improved performance, reliability, and security. Key updates include better heuristics for rendering accuracy and a strengthened security sandbox for Grafana Cloud users. Users running the service on premises will need to migrate to the new deployment method.

Grafana is implementing a release freeze from November 26 to December 2 and again from December 19 to January 5 to ensure stability during the holiday season. During these periods, there will be no scheduled updates for Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, or Grafana OSS, although operational or security changes will still occur. Additionally, Grafana Cloud offers various rolling release channels—Fast, Steady, and Slow—to cater to different user preferences for updates.