# Grafana v5.0.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v5.0.0
- **Released:** Mar 01, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v5.0.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v5.0.0. Source highlight: Grafana v5.0 is going to be the biggest and most foundational release Grafana has ever had, coming with a ton of UX improvements, a new dashboard grid engine, dashboard folders, user teams and permissions. Checkout out this video preview of Grafana v5 and the What's New section in the docs for an ov

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes * **[dashboard.json]** have been replaced with [dashboard provisioning](http://docs.grafana.org/administration/provisioning/).

## New Features
- **Dashboards** Dashboard folders, #1611
- **Teams** User groups (teams) implemented. Can be used in folder & dashboard permission list.
- **Dashboard grid**: Panels are now layed out in a two dimensional grid (with x, y, w, h). #9093.
- **Templating**: Vertical repeat direction for panel repeats.
- **UX**: Major update to page header and navigation
- **Dashboard settings**: Combine dashboard settings views into one with side menu, #9750

## Bug Fixes
- **oauth** Fix Github OAuth not working with private Organizations #11028 @lostick
- **kiosk** white area over bottom panels in kiosk mode #11010
- **alerting** Fix OK state doesn't show up in Microsoft Teams #11032, thx @manacker
- **Orgs** Unable to switch org when too many orgs listed #10774
- **Folders** Make it easier/explicit to access/modify folders using the API #10630
- **Dashboard** Scrollbar works incorrectly in Grafana 5.0 Beta4 in some cases #10982