# Grafana v5.1.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v5.1.0
- **Released:** Apr 26, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v5.1.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v5.1.0. Source highlight: The recent 5.0 major release contained a lot of new features, so the Grafana 5.1 release is focused on smoothing out some rough edges and iterating over some of the new features.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- [Improved docker image](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/docker/#migration-from-a-previous-version-of-the-docker-container-to-5-1-or-later) with a breaking change!
- Docker**: Improved docker image (breaking changes regarding file ownership) [grafana-docker #141](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-docker/issues/141), thx [@Spindel](https://github.com/Spindel), [@ChristianKniep](https://github.com/ChristianKniep), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz) and [@jangaraj](https://github.com/jangaraj)

## New Features
- **Templating**: Add comma templating format #10632, thx @mtanda
- **Alerting**: Add support for retries on alert queries #5855, thx @Thib17
- **Folders**: A folder admin cannot add user/team permissions for folder/its dashboards #11173
- **OpsGenie**: Add triggered alerts as description #11046, thx @llamashoes
- **Cloudwatch**: Add dimension filtering to CloudWatch `dimension_values()` #10029, thx @willyhutw
- **Singlestat**: Add color to prefix and postfix in singlestat panel #11143, thx @ApsOps

## Improvements
- Improved scrolling experience
- Improved docker image with a breaking change!
- **Docker**: Improved docker image (breaking changes regarding file ownership) grafana-docker #141, thx @Spindel, @ChristianKniep, @brancz and @jangaraj
- **Provisioning**: Improved workflow for provisioned dashboards #10883
- **Postgres**: improve `$__timeFilter` macro #11578, thx @svenklemm
- **Permission list**: Improved ux #10747

## Bug Fixes
- **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL**: Fix precision for the time column in table mode #11306
- **Avatar**: Fix DISABLE_GRAVATAR option #11095