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 ![](http://grafana.org/assets/img/start_page_bg.png)
 
+## Grafana 2.0 News
+Grafana 2.0 with its new awesome backend written in Go is approaching beta.
+The code is available in the [develop](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/tree/develop) branch.
+[This blog post](http://grafana.org/blog/2015/02/10/Grafana-2-Alpha-and-preview.html) contains some news about it as well.
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 ## Features
 ### Graphite Target Editor
 - Graphite target expression parser