v5.4.0-beta1

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5.4.0-beta1 (2018-11-20)

New Features

• Alerting: Introduce alert debouncing with the FOR setting. #7886 & #6202
• Alerting: Option to disable OK alert notifications #12330 & #6696, thx @davewat
• Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL: Adds support for configuration of max open/idle connections and connection max lifetime. Also, panels with multiple SQL queries will now be executed concurrently #11711, thx @connection-reset
• MySQL: Graphical query builder #13762, thx svenklemm
• MySQL: Support connecting thru Unix socket for MySQL datasource #12342, thx @Yukinoshita-Yukino
• MSSQL: Add encrypt setting to allow configuration of how data sent between client and server are encrypted #13629, thx @ramiro
• Stackdriver: Not possible to authenticate using GCE metadata server #13669
• Teams: Team preferences (theme, home dashboard, timezone) support #12550
• Graph: Time regions support enabling highlight of weekdays and/or certain timespans #5930
• OAuth: Automatic redirect to sign-in with OAuth #11893, thx @Nick-Triller
• Stackdriver: Template query editor #13561

Minor

• Security: Upgrade macaron session package to fix security issue. #14043
• Cloudwatch: Show all available CloudWatch regions #12308, thx @mtanda
• Cloudwatch: AWS/Connect metrics and dimensions #13970, thx @zcoffy
• Cloudwatch: CloudHSM metrics and dimensions #14129, thx @daktari
• Cloudwatch: Enable using variables in the stats field #13810, thx @mtanda
• Postgres: Add delta window function to postgres query builder #13925, thx svenklemm
• Elasticsearch: Fix switching to/from es raw document metric query #6367
• Elasticsearch: Fix deprecation warning about terms aggregation order key in Elasticsearch 6.x #11977
• Graph: Render dots when no connecting line can be made #13605, thx @jsferrei
• Table: Fix CSS alpha background-color applied twice in table cell with link #13606, thx @grisme
• Singlestat: Fix XSS in prefix/postfix #13946, thx @cinaglia
• Units: New clock time format, to format ms or second values as for example 01h:59m, #13635, thx @franciscocpg
• Alerting: Increaste default duration for queries #13945
• Alerting: More options for the Slack Alert notifier #13993, thx @andreykaipov
• Alerting: Can't receive DingDing alert when alert is triggered #13723, thx @Yukinoshita-Yukino
• Alerting: Increase Telegram captions length limit #13876, thx @skgsergio
• Internal metrics: Renamed grafana_info to grafana_build_info and added branch, goversion and revision #13876
• Datasource Proxy: Keep trailing slash for datasource proxy requests #13326, thx @ryantxu
• OAuth: Fix Google OAuth relies on email, not google account id #13924, thx @vinicyusmacedo
• Dashboard: Toggle legend using keyboard shortcut #13655, thx @davewat
• Dashboard: Fix render dashboard row drag handle only in edit mode #13555, thx @praveensastry
• Teams: Fix cannot select team if not included in initial search #13425
• Render: Support full height screenshots using phantomjs render script #13352, thx @amuraru
• HTTP API: Support retrieving teams by user #14120, thx @supercharlesliu
• Metrics: Add basic authentication to metrics endpoint #13577, thx @bobmshannon

Breaking changes

• Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL datasources now per default uses max open connections = unlimited (earlier 10), max idle connections = 2 (earlier 10) and connection max lifetime = 4 hours (earlier unlimited).