Release Notes

Follow the development of the Business Variable panel with these release notes, detailing new features, enhancements, fixes, and breaking changes across all versions.

3.6.0 (2024-10-24)

Features / Enhancements

• Improved behavior in Table view for Textbox variable type (#211)
• Added Date Time Selector (#209)
• Supported "All" options in Scenes dashboards (#213)
• Enhanced E2E tests (#216)
• Fixed Slider view display error (#220)
• Updated to Grafana 11.3.0 with latest dependencies (#222)
• Improved sticky position in Scenes dashboards (#221)

3.5.0 (2024-10-02)

Features / Enhancements

• Enhanced select variable in Minimize view (#197)
• Updated @tanstack/virtual to latest version (#207)
• Updated to Grafana 11.2.2 with latest dependencies (#207)

3.4.0 (2024-08-23)

Features / Enhancements

• Added panel options for reordering tabs (#193)
• Updated local storage key for favorites (#194)
• Updated to Grafana 11.1.4 (#195)

Persistent favorites, image thresholds, and button view updates in Business Variable 3.4.0

3.3.0 (2024-08-14)

Features / Enhancements

• Supported data source for favorites (#184)
• Updated documentation (#185)
• Added scrollbar for Button view (#187)

3.2.0 (2024-07-09)

Features / Enhancements

• Updated video tutorial (#166)
• Optimized E2E workflow with Docker (#173)
• Added image threshold style for status display in Table view (#170)

3.1.0 (2024-06-06)

Features / Enhancements

• Added collapse/expand rows option on initial load (#159)
• Improved selection behavior using Ctrl key (#160)
• Updated to Grafana 11.0.0 with latest dependencies (#161)
• Added Reset button for Button view (#162)
• Enhanced selection for key/value pair variables (#165)

3.0.0 (2024-05-09)

Breaking Changes

Requires Grafana 10 or 11

Grafana 11, slider view, and user experience improvements in Business Variable 3.0.0

Features / Enhancements

• Improved multi-level selecting and deselecting (#139)
• Updated Auto/Static Minimize label width (#144)
• Added show/hide Minimize label option (#144)
• Introduced maximum visible values option in Minimize view (#147)
• Added plugin E2E tests and removed Cypress (#149)
• Included row count in Table view (#148)
• Enhanced AutoScroll behavior (#152)
• Added Slider View (#154)
• Prepared for Grafana 11 (#155)
• Updated to Grafana 10.4.2 with latest dependencies (#158)

2.5.0 (2024-04-01)

Features / Enhancements

• Added indeterminate state to checkboxes (#127)
• Improved Tree View scrolling (#128)
• Introduced responsive tabs (#130)
• Supported new items in Variable (Minimize mode) (#134)
• Added preservation of group selection across dashboards (#135)
• Enhanced Tree View display and scrolling (#136)
• Added reset for dependent variables on value selection (#138)

2.4.0 (2024-03-17)

Breaking Changes

Requires Grafana 9.2 or 10

Features / Enhancements

• Updated video tutorial in README (#111)
• Enhanced timescale data (#119)
• Updated dependencies and Actions (#120)
• Adjusted default color contrast (#122)
• Added preserve selected group option (#124)
• Included label for Button view (#125)

2.3.1 (2023-12-14)

Search improvements, persistent mode, and compatibility updates in Business Variable 2.3.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed draggable icon for Grafana 10.3 (#107)

2.3.0 (2023-12-13)

Features / Enhancements

• Cleared table state on tab change (#101)
• Updated ESLint configuration and refactored (#102)
• Added persistent mode (#103)
• Updated to Grafana 10.2.2 with Volkov Labs packages (#104)

2.2.0 (2023-11-20)

Dashboard redirect, search improvements, and tree view updates in Business Variable 2.2.0

Features / Enhancements

• Added dashboard redirect option (#92)
• Updated ESLint configuration and sorted imports (#93)
• Improved Safari layout for favorites (#97)
• Updated to Grafana 10.2.1 (#98)
• Added clear filter value button (#99)

2.1.0 (2023-11-08)

Features / Enhancements

• Added always-visible search filter option (#83)
• Introduced group rename functionality (#84)
• Supported selecting fields from data frames without RefId (#85)
• Enabled toggling expanded row state by label click (#86)

Bugfixes

• Fixed deselection of "All" variable value not in URL (#87)
• Removed ability to add group to favorites (#88)

2.0.0 (2023-10-16)

Key-value variables, enter key handling, and multi-value updates in Business Variable 2.0.0

Features / Enhancements

• Updated variable option label for parent items in Tree View (#62)
• Added Enter and Escape key handling for Text Variable (#69)
• Implemented table virtualization for performance (#64, #74)
• Cleared value for multi-choice variables (#66)
• Updated to Plugin Tools 2.1.1 (#72)
• Signed plugin with Grafana Access Policy (#72)
• Updated to Grafana 10.1.5 (#73)

Bugfixes

• Fixed key:value option selection in Minimize and Button views (#75)

1.7.0 (2023-08-08)

Button display mode, group selection, and key-value variables in Business Variable 1.7.0

Features / Enhancements

• Supported variables with text and value in Table/Tree View (#57)
• Added Button View (#59)
• Included group selection (#58)
• Updated dependencies to Grafana 10.0.3 (#60)

1.6.0 (2023-07-26)

Sort by status, minimized mode, and text box input in Business Variable 1.6.0

Features / Enhancements

• Refined ESLint configuration (#47)
• Added status sort button (#49, #51)
• Introduced Minimize mode similar to native select for Query and Custom (#50)
• Added input for Textbox variable (#53)

1.5.0 (2023-07-11)

Sticky header, auto-scroll, and drag and drop configuration in Business Variable 1.5.0

Features / Enhancements

• Updated single-select variable with "All" enabled (#41)
• Added sticky header and auto-scroll on multi-group selection (#38)
• Enabled drag-and-drop for Groups (#42)
• Included expand/collapse all in header (#46)

1.4.0 (2023-07-06)

First community release of Business Variable 1.4.0

Features / Enhancements

• Added tutorial (#21)
• Updated new Level addition to last position (#22)
• Hid unselectable items (#24)
• Used main view scroll element for Grafana 9 support (#26)
• Added Favorite icon to filter selected favorites (#25)
• Introduced Tree View groups (requires configuration update) (#20)
• Added option to display variable name before value (#30)
• Increased test coverage (#31)
• Enabled auto-scroll to selected value (#32)
• Signed as community release (#37)

1.3.0 (2023-06-30)

Features / Enhancements

• Added Display Header option (#15)
• Enabled collapsing parent rows (#16)
• Introduced Sticky option for scrolling (#17)
• Added Table Filter (#18)
• Supported selecting favorites (#19)
• Updated documentation (#20)

1.2.0 (2023-06-26)

Features / Enhancements

• Introduced Tree View (#12, #13)
• Updated README and screenshot (#14)

1.1.0 (2023-06-21)

Features / Enhancements

• Added variable statuses based on Threshold (#6)
• Replaced Table with react-table v8 (#8)
• Included Field options for variable values and statuses (#9)
• Updated Provisioning and README (#10)
• Supported Grafana 8.5.0 (#11)

1.0.0 (2023-06-19)

Features / Enhancements

• Initial release based on Volkov Labs panel template
• Updated README and configuration (#1)
• Refactored legacy code (#2, #4)
• Updated to Grafana 10.0.0 (#3)
• Enhanced Provisioning and README (#5)