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Release Notes

Explore the evolution of the Business Media panel through these release notes, detailing new features, enhancements, fixes, and breaking changes across all versions.

6.2.0 (2024-12-03)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Enhanced data state handling for timeouts and errors (#145)
  • Improved E2E tests (#150)
  • Updated to Grafana 11.3 with latest dependencies (#151)

6.1.0 (2024-09-05)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Improved media sources state management (#137)
  • Added WebSocket server for streaming (#140)
  • Updated to Grafana 11.2 with latest dependencies (#141)
  • Introduced Scroll option for images (#142)
URL, data links, and scrolling for images in Business Media 6.1.0
URL, data links, and scrolling for images in Business Media 6.1.0

6.0.0 (2024-07-29)​

Breaking Changes
  • Image links in panel options must now use Data links
  • PDF fields require updating the media source type to PDF

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added poster support for videos (#120)
  • Updated current index on data series decrease (#121)
  • Transitioned Image URL to data links (#122)
  • Enabled slideshow for mixed media (#123)
  • Refactored Media panel (#124)
  • Supported multiple queries in Media Field and Poster Image (#127)
  • Updated to Grafana 11.1 with latest dependencies (#128)
  • Documented PDF breaking change for 6.0.0 (#132)

5.1.0 (2024-06-23)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Updated video overview (#100)
  • Added plugin E2E tests and removed Cypress (#101, #102, #103, #105)
  • Enabled loading images and videos from URLs with video toolbar (#111, #116)
  • Updated to Grafana 11 with latest dependencies (#114)
  • Utilized frame utils from packages (#115)
  • Optimized E2E workflow with Docker (#117)

5.0.0 (2024-03-25)​

Breaking Changes

Requires Grafana 10 or 11

Grafana 11, customized messages, and infinity play in Business Media 5.0.0
Grafana 11, customized messages, and infinity play in Business Media 5.0.0

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added customizable alert message option (#96)
  • Updated to Grafana 10.4.1 (#97)
  • Removed deprecated ArrayVector in Grafana 11 (#99)

4.2.0 (2024-02-22)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Updated ESLint configuration and refactored (#92)
  • Updated dependencies and Actions (#94)
  • Added infinity play option (#93)

4.1.0 (2023-10-29)​

Image scaling and Grafana compatibility updates in Business Media 4.1.0
Image scaling and Grafana compatibility updates in Business Media 4.1.0

Features / Enhancements​

  • Refined ESLint configuration (#84)
  • Introduced Image Scale Algorithm option (#89)
  • Updated to Plugin Tools 2.1.1 (#90)
  • Signed plugin with Grafana Access Policy (#90)
  • Updated to Grafana 10.1.5 (#90)

4.0.0 (2023-06-26)​

Breaking Changes

Requires Grafana 9 or 10

Grafana 10, zoom in and out, and captions in Business Media 4.0.0
Grafana 10, zoom in and out, and captions in Business Media 4.0.0

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added zoom in/out actions to image toolbar (#78)
  • Relocated zoom buttons to image toolbar (#79)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 10.0.0 (#80)
  • Added captions for images and media files (#82)
  • Dropped support for Grafana 8.5 (#83)

3.6.0 (2023-06-06)​

Toolbar, Grafana 10 preview, and increased test coverage in Business Media 3.6.0
Toolbar, Grafana 10 preview, and increased test coverage in Business Media 3.6.0

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 9.5.2 (#70)
  • Integrated E2E Cypress tests into testing cycle (#71)
  • Migrated to Plugin Tools 1.5.2 (#72, #73)
  • Updated to Node.js 18 (#72)
  • Increased test coverage for plugin functionality (#72)
  • Tested on Grafana 10 Preview (#74)
  • Added toolbar for download, zoom, and image navigation (#75, #76, #77)

3.5.0 (2023-03-07)​

Padding removed, Grafana compatibility updates in Business Media 3.5.0
Padding removed, Grafana compatibility updates in Business Media 3.5.0

Features / Enhancements​

  • Updated CI and release workflows (#64)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 9.4.3 (#65)
  • Set NoPadding parameter to utilize full panel area (#66)

3.4.0 (2023-01-08) "New Year" Edition​

"New Year" edition and documentation updates in Business Media 3.4.0
"New Year" edition and documentation updates in Business Media 3.4.0

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 9.3.2 (#60)
  • Included documentation links (#61)
  • Updated README and product documentation (#62)

3.3.0 (2022-10-30) "Halloween" Edition​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Supported sanitized variables in URL field (#53)
  • Updated CI to Node.js 16 and synced with release workflow (#55)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 9.2.2 (#56)

3.2.0 (2022-10-05)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 9.1.4 (#47)
  • Introduced workflow to check plugin compatibility (#48)
  • Added option to disable PDF Toolbar (#50)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 9.1.7 (#51)

3.1.0 (2022-08-13)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Updated README and provisioning dashboards (#43)
  • Added YouTube video tutorials to README (#44)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 9.0.7 (#45)
  • Updated image for Grafana Plugins catalog (#46)

3.0.0 (2022-06-16)​

Breaking Changes

Requires Grafana 8.5+ or 9.0+

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 9.0.0-beta3 (#36)
  • Improved PDF loader to start in Docker (#38)
  • Supported short videos in Base64 format (#39)
  • Added playback for MP3 and OGG audio files in Base64 format (#40)
  • Included video/audio playback controls and Auto Play function (#41)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 9.0.0 (#42)

2.6.0 (2022-04-26)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.3.6 (#32)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 8.4.0 using PluginCheck v2 (#33)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.4.3 (#34)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 8.5.0 (#35)

2.5.0 (2022-01-24)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Updated README for Grafana Plugins catalog inclusion (#29)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.3.4 (#28)

2.4.0 (2021-12-16)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.2.5 (#22)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 8.3.0 (#23)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.3.2 (#24)
  • Updated naming of plugin components (#25)
  • Supported PDF documents larger than 2 MB (#26)

2.3.1 (2021-11-09)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added display:block parameter for proper href display (#21)

2.3.0 (2021-11-08)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Enabled dashboard transitions via image click (#19)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.2.3 (#20)

2.2.0 (2021-11-02)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.1.5 (#16)
  • Ensured compatibility with Grafana 8.2.0 (#17)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.2.2 (#18)

2.1.1 (2021-08-18)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added radio button to select image size mode (#14)

2.1.0 (2021-08-12)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Updated README (#10)
  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.1.1 (#12)
  • Included options and fields to resize images (#13)

2.0.0 (2021-06-19)​

Breaking Changes

Supports Grafana 8.0+; use version 1.0.1 or 1.1.0 for Grafana 7.x

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added compatibility with Grafana 8.0.2 (#9)

1.1.0 (2021-06-19)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Supported Base64 image display with headers (#7)
  • Enabled Base64 image display from InfluxDB (#6)
  • Increased test coverage for plugin functionality (#4)

1.0.1 (2021-06-07)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Added screenshots for static and Redis data sources (#5)

1.0.0 (2021-06-07)​

Features / Enhancements​

  • Initial release for Grafana 7.5.7
  • Supported rendering of PNG, JPG, GIF, and PDF files