Grafana and Grafana Cloud have announced their end-of-year release freeze dates to ensure system stability during the holiday season, with the freeze periods set for November 26 to December 2 and December 19 to January 5, allowing exceptions only for operational or security incidents. Grafana Cloud's rolling release channels—Fast, Steady, and Slow—facilitate the continuous delivery of updates, improvements, and security fixes, enabling users to choose their preferred update frequency. Fast updates occur daily, Steady updates are weekly, and Slow updates happen monthly, with flexibility for Grafana Cloud Pro and Advanced users to switch channels for their production instances. This strategy ensures timely access to new features while maintaining rigorous testing protocols to minimize bugs, and any issues that arise are swiftly addressed. The release cadence is specific to the Grafana visualization platform, with other products like Grafana Cloud Logs, Metrics, and Traces updated separately, and users are encouraged to contact support for any queries during the freeze periods.