***Playlists**: Playlists can now be persisted and started from urls, closes [#3655](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3655)
***Metadata**: Settings panel now shows dashboard metadata, closes [#3304](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3304)
***InfluxDB**: Support for policy selection in query editor, closes [#2018](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2018)
***Snapshots UI**: Dashboard snapshots list can be managed through UI, closes[#1984](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1984)
### Breaking changes
***Plugin API**: Both datasource and panel plugin api (and plugin.json schema) have been updated, requiring an update to plugins. See [plugin api](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/public/app/plugins/plugin_api.md) for more info.
