Grafana v5.2.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

Grafana v5.2 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements. - [What's new in Grafana v5.2](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/) - [Download](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/5.2.0) ### Release Highlights * [Elasticsearch alerting](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#elasticsearch-alerting) it's finally here! * [Native builds for ARM](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#native-builds-for-arm) native builds of Grafana for many more platforms! * [Improved Docker image](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#improved-docker-image) with support for docker secrets * [Security](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#security) make your Grafana instance more secure * [Prometheus](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#prometheus) with alignment enhancements * [InfluxDB](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#influxdb) with support for a new function * [Alerting](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#alerting) with alert notification channel type for Discord * [Dashboards & Panels](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/#dashboards-panels) with save & import enhancements # 5.2.0 (2018-06-27) ### Minor * **Plugins**: Handle errors correctly when loading datasource plugin [#12383](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/12383) thx [@rozetko](https://github.com/rozetko) * **Render**: Enhance error message if phantomjs executable is not found [#11868](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11868) * **Dashboard**: Set correct text in drop down when variable is present in url [#11968](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11968) ### 5.2.0-beta3 fixes * **LDAP**: Handle "dn" ldap attribute more gracefully [#12385](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/12385), reverts [#10970](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/10970) # 5.2.0-beta3 (2018-06-21) ### Minor * **Build**: All rpm packages should be signed [#12359](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12359) # 5.2.0-beta2 (2018-06-20) ### New Features * **Dashboard**: Import dashboard to folder [#10796](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10796) ### Minor * **Permissions**: Important security fix for API keys with viewer role [#12343](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12343) * **Dashboard**: Fix so panel titles doesn't wrap [#11074](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11074) * **Dashboard**: Prevent double-click when saving dashboard [#11963](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11963) * **Dashboard**: AutoFocus the add-panel search filter [#12189](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/12189) thx [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu) * **Units**: W/m2 (energy), l/h (flow) and kPa (pressure) [#11233](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11233), thx [@flopp999](https://github.com/flopp999) * **Units**: Litre/min (flow) and milliLitre/min (flow) [#12282](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/12282), thx [@flopp999](https://github.com/flopp999) * **Alerting**: Fix mobile notifications for Microsoft Teams alert notifier [#11484](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11484), thx [@manacker](https://github.com/manacker) * **Influxdb**: Add support for mode function [#12286](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12286) * **Cloudwatch**: Fixes panic caused by bad timerange settings [#12199](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12199) * **Auth Proxy**: Whitelist proxy IP address instead of client IP address [#10707](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10707) * **User Management**: Make sure that a user always has a current org assigned [#11076](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11076) * **Snapshots**: Fix: annotations not properly extracted leading to incorrect rendering of annotations [#12278](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12278) * **LDAP**: Allow use of DN in group_search_filter_user_attribute and member_of [#3132](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3132), thx [@mmolnar](https://github.com/mmolnar) * **Graph**: Fix legend decimals precision calculation [#11792](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11792) * **Dashboard**: Make sure to process panels in collapsed rows when exporting dashboard [#12256](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12256) ### 5.2.0-beta1 fixes * **Dashboard**: Dashboard link doesn't work when "As dropdown" option is checked [#12315](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12315) * **Dashboard**: Fix regressions after save modal changes, including adhoc template issues [#12240](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12240) * **Docker**: Config keys ending with _FILE are not respected [#170](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-docker/issues/170) # 5.2.0-beta1 (2018-06-05) ### New Features * **Elasticsearch**: Alerting support [#5893](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5893), thx [@WPH95](https://github.com/WPH95) * **Build**: Crosscompile and packages Grafana on arm, windows, linux and darwin [#11920](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11920), thx [@fg2it](https://github.com/fg2it) * **Login**: Change admin password after first login [#11882](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11882) * **Alert list panel**: Updated to support filtering alerts by name, dashboard title, folder, tags [#11500](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11500), [#8168](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8168), [#6541](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6541) ### Minor * **Dashboard**: Modified time range and variables are now not saved by default [#10748](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10748), [#8805](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8805) * **Graph**: Show invisible highest value bucket in histogram [#11498](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11498) * **Dashboard**: Enable "Save As..." if user has edit permission [#11625](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11625) * **Prometheus**: Query dates are now step-aligned [#10434](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/10434) * **Prometheus**: Table columns order now changes when rearrange queries [#11690](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11690), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Variables**: Fix variable interpolation when using multiple formatting types [#11800](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11800), thx [@svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) * **Dashboard**: Fix date selector styling for dark/light theme in time picker control [#11616](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11616) * **Discord**: Alert notification channel type for Discord, [#7964](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7964) thx [@jereksel](https://github.com/jereksel), * **InfluxDB**: Support SELECT queries in templating query, [#5013](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5013) * **InfluxDB**: Support count distinct aggregation [#11645](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11645), thx [@kichristensen](https://github.com/kichristensen) * **Dashboard**: JSON Model under dashboard settings can now be updated & changes saved, [#1429](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1429), thx [@jereksel](https://github.com/jereksel) * **Security**: Fix XSS vulnerabilities in dashboard links [#11813](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11813) * **Singlestat**: Fix "time of last point" shows local time when dashboard timezone set to UTC [#10338](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10338) * **Prometheus**: Add support for passing timeout parameter to Prometheus [#11788](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11788), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Login**: Add optional option sign out url for generic oauth [#9847](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9847), thx [@roidelapluie](https://github.com/roidelapluie) * **Login**: Use proxy server from environment variable if available [#9703](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9703), thx [@iyeonok](https://github.com/iyeonok) * **Invite users**: Friendlier error message when smtp is not configured [#12087](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12087), thx [@thurt](https://github.com/thurt) * **Graphite**: Don't send distributed tracing headers when using direct/browser access mode [#11494](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11494) * **Sidenav**: Show create dashboard link for viewers if at least editor in one folder [#11858](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11858) * **SQL**: Second epochs are now correctly converted to ms. [#12085](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/12085) * **Singlestat**: Fix singlestat threshold tooltip [#11971](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11971) * **Dashboard**: Hide grid controls in fullscreen/low-activity views [#11771](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11771) * **Dashboard**: Validate uid when importing dashboards [#11515](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11515) * **Docker**: Support for env variables ending with _FILE [grafana-docker #166](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-docker/pull/166), thx [@efrecon](https://github.com/efrecon) * **Alert list panel**: Show alerts for user with viewer role [#11167](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11167) * **Provisioning**: Verify checksum of dashboards before updating to reduce load on database [#11670](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11670) * **Provisioning**: Support symlinked files in dashboard provisioning config files [#11958](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11958) * **Dashboard list panel**: Search dashboards by folder [#11525](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11525) * **Sidenav**: Always show server admin link in sidenav if grafana admin [#11657](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11657)