docs: what's new in v5.2 and docker installation updates
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* [Elasticsearch alerting]({{< relref "#elasticsearch-alerting" >}}) it's finally here!
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* [Cross platform build support]({{< relref "#cross-platform-build-support" >}}) enables native builds of Grafana for many more platforms!
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* [Improved Docker image]({{< relref "#improved-docker-image" >}}) with support for docker secrets
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* [Security]({{< relref "#security" >}}) make your Grafana instance more secure
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* [Prometheus]({{< relref "#prometheus" >}}) with alignment enhancements
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* [InfluxDB]({{< relref "#influxdb" >}}) with support for a new function
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* [Alerting]({{< relref "#alerting" >}}) with alert notification channel type for Discord
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* [Dashboards & Panels]({{< relref "#dashboards-panels" >}})
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* [Dashboards & Panels]({{< relref "#dashboards-panels" >}}) with save & import enhancements
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## Elasticsearch alerting
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The Grafana docker image now includes support for Docker secrets which enables you to supply Grafana with configuration through files. More
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information in the [Installing using Docker documentation](/installation/docker/#reading-secrets-from-files-support-for-docker-secrets).
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## Security
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v52/login_change_password.png" max-width="800px" class="docs-image--right" >}}
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Starting from Grafana v5.2, when you login with the administrator account using the default password you'll be presented with a form to change the password.
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By this we hope to encourage users to follow Grafana's best practices and change the default administrator password.
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<div class="clearfix"></div>
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## Prometheus
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The Prometheus datasource now aligns the start/end of the query sent to Prometheus with the step, which ensures PromQL expressions with *rate*
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functions get consistent results, and thus avoid graphs jumping around on reload.
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## InfluxDB
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The InfluxDB datasource now includes support for the *mode* function which allows to return the most frequent value in a list of field values.
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## Alerting
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By popular demand Grafana now includes support for an alert notification channel type for [Discord](https://discordapp.com/).
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### Import dashboard enhancements
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v52/dashboard_import.png" max-width="800px" class="docs-image--right" >}}
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Grafana v5.2 adds support for specifying an existing folder or create a new one when importing a dashboard, a long awaited feature since
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Grafana v5.0 introduced support for dashboard folders and permissions. The import dashboard page have also got some general improvements
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and should now make it more clear if a possible import will overwrite an existing dashboard, or not.
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This release also adds some improvements for those users only having editor or admin permissions in certain folders. Now the links to
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*Create Dashboard* and *Import Dashboard* is available in side navigation, dashboard search and manage dashboards/folder page for a
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user that has editor role in an organization or edit permission in at least one folder.
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## Changelog
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Checkout the [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) file for a complete list
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