***Playlists**: Playlists can now be persisted and started from urls, closes [#3655](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/3655)
***Metadata**: Settings panel now shows dashboard metadata, closes [#3304](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3304)
### Breaking changes
**InfluxDB 0.8.x** The data source for the old version of influxdb (0.8.x) is no longer included in default builds. Can easily be installed via improved plugin system, closes #3523
