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.
By this we hope to encourage users to follow Grafana's best practices and change the default administrator password.
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## Prometheus
The Prometheus datasource now aligns the start/end of the query sent to Prometheus with the step, which ensures PromQL expressions with *rate*
functions get consistent results, and thus avoid graphs jumping around on reload.
## InfluxDB
The InfluxDB datasource now includes support for the *mode* function which allows to return the most frequent value in a list of field values.
## Alerting
By popular demand Grafana now includes support for an alert notification channel type for [Discord](https://discordapp.com/).
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## Reading secrets from files (support for Docker Secrets)
> Available in v5.2.0 and later
> Only available in Grafana v5.2+.
It's possible to supply Grafana with configuration through files. This works well with [Docker Secrets](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/secrets/) as the secrets by default gets mapped into `/run/secrets/<name of secret>` of the container.
You can do this with any of the configuration options in conf/grafana.ini by setting `GF_<SectionName>_<KeyName>_FILE` to the path of the file holding the secret.
You can do this with any of the configuration options in conf/grafana.ini by setting `GF_<SectionName>_<KeyName>__FILE` to the path of the file holding the secret.
Let's say you want to set the admin password this way.