The Templating system is one of the most powerful and well-used features of Grafana. The 2.1 release brings numerous improvements that make Dashboards more dynamic than ever before.
### Multi-Value Template Select
Multi-Value Select allows for the selection of multiple template variables.
These variables can be used in any Panel to make them more dynamic, and automatically show only the desired data.
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## Improved authentication engine
New authentication methods add numerous options to manage users, roles and organizations. Grafana 2.1 also includes a "Read-only Editor" role which disables the query editor for that user.
### LDAP support
This highly requested feature now allows your Grafana users to login with their LDAP credentials. You can also specify mappings between LDAP group memberships and Grafana Organization user roles.
### Basic Auth support
You can now authenticate against the Grafana API utilizing a simple username and password with basic HTTP authentication.
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### New “Read-only Editor” User Role
There is a new User role available in this version of Grafana: “Read-only Editor”. This role disables the query editor for the user and puts him in a read-only sandbox of sorts.
> ***Note:*** Even with this role assigned, Read-only Editors still have access to ALL metrics from that Datasource. This is not a way to achieve a true multitenant segregated environment with Grafana.
There is a new User role available in this version of Grafana: “Read-only Editor”. This role behaves just like the Viewer role does in Grafana 2.0.
That is you can edit graphs and queries but no save dashboards. The Viewer role has been modified in Grafana 2.1 so that users assigned this role
can no longer edit panels.
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##Improved data source support
##Improved data source support
### Improved Data Sources
We continue to make progress on fully supporting InfluxDB 0.9, but it has proven to be a bit of a moving target. This Grafana release brings a much improved query editor for InfluxDB 0.9
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## Panel Improvements
### Graph Panel
Define series color using regex rule
Define series color using regex rule
![Define series color using regex rule ](/img/v2/regex_color.gif"Define series color using regex rule ")
New series style override, negative-y transform and stack groups
