Here are some release highlights :)<p><pre><code>  * Big UI improvements and polish
  * Redesigned plugin architecture and SDK  
  * Grafana-cli command line tool shipped with grafana, 
    installs plugins 
  * Persisted dashboard playlists
  * Preferences like home dashboard, timezone and theme on 
    org and user level
  * New plugin types, Apps, and Panels.
  * New platform site built around Grafana at Grafana.net
    * Plugin repository
    * Dashboard repository (coming soon)
    * Hosted Grafana and Hosted metrics (coming soon)
    * Monitoring and backups of on-prem Grafana (coming soon)
  * Annotation popovers can contain clickable links
  * Templated data source Easiy reuse the same dashboard for multiple data source instances
  * OSX Homebrew support Homebrew installation instructions
  * Support for InfluxDB 0.11+ (and new functions)
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Youtube screencast with feature showcase:
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