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a very intuitive way. Panels are sized independently, so rows are no longer necessary to create layouts. This opens
up many new types of layouts where panels of different heights can be aligned easily. Checkout the new grid in the video
above or on the [play site](http://play.grafana.org). All your existing dashboards will automatically migrate to the
new position system and look close to identical. The new panel position makes dashboards saved in v5.0 not compatible
new position system and look close to identical. The new panel position makes dashboards saved in v5.0 incompatible
with older versions of Grafana.
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v50/new_white_theme.png" max-width="1000px" class="docs-image--right" >}}
This theme has not seen a lot of love in recent years and we felt it was time to rework it and give it a major overhaul. We are very happy with the result.
This theme has not seen a lot of love in recent years and we felt it was time to give it a major overhaul. We are very happy with the result.
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## Teams
A team is a new concept in Grafana v5. They are simply a group of users that can be then be used in the new permission system for dashboards and folders. Only an admin can create teams.
A team is a new concept in Grafana v5. They are simply a group of users that can be used in the new permission system for dashboards and folders. Only an admin can create teams.
We hope to do more with teams in future releases like integration with LDAP and a team landing page.
## Permissions
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In previous versions of Grafana, you could only use the API for provisioning data sources and dashboards.
But that required the service to be running before you started creating dashboards and you also needed to
set up credentials for the HTTP API. In 5.0 we decided to improve this experience by adding a new active
set up credentials for the HTTP API. In v5.0 we decided to improve this experience by adding a new active
provisioning system that uses config files. This will make GitOps more natural as data sources and dashboards can
be defined via files that can be version controlled. We hope to extend this system to later add support for users, orgs
and alerts as well.
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### Dashboards
We also deprecated the [dashboard.json] in favor of our new dashboard provisioner that keeps dashboards on disk
We also deprecated the `[dashboard.json]` in favor of our new dashboard provisioner that keeps dashboards on disk
in sync with dashboards in Grafana's database. The dashboard provisioner has multiple advantages over the old
[dashboard.json] feature. Instead of storing the dashboard in memory we now insert the dashboard into the database,
`[dashboard.json]` feature. Instead of storing the dashboard in memory we now insert the dashboard into the database,
which makes it possible to star them, use one as the home dashboard, set permissions and other features in Grafana that
expects the dashboards to exist in the database. More info in the [dashboard provisioning docs](/administration/provisioning/#dashboards)