Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 11.4.2
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Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v11.4.2. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- **Docker:** Use our own glibc 2.40 binaries #99924, @DanCech
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Auth:** Fix redirect with JWT auth URL login #100494, @mgyongyosi
- **AuthN:** Refetch user on "ErrUserAlreadyExists" #100585, @kalleep
- **Azure:** Correctly set application insights resource values #99598, @aangelisc
- **Dashboards:** Bring back scripted dashboards #100629, @dprokop
- **Plugin Metrics:** Eliminate data race in plugin metrics middleware #100077, @clord
- **RBAC:** Don't check folder access if `annotationPermissionUpdate` FT is enabled #100116, @IevaVasiljeva
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/11.4.2)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Docker:** Use our own glibc 2.40 binaries [#99924](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/99924), [@DanCech](https://github.com/DanCech)
### Bug fixes
- **Auth:** Fix redirect with JWT auth URL login [#100494](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/100494), [@mgyongyosi](https://github.com/mgyongyosi)
- **AuthN:** Refetch user on "ErrUserAlreadyExists" [#100585](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/100585), [@kalleep](https://github.com/kalleep)
- **Azure:** Correctly set application insights resource values [#99598](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/99598), [@aangelisc](https://github.com/aangelisc)
- **Dashboards:** Bring back scripted dashboards [#100629](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/100629), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Plugin Metrics:** Eliminate data race in plugin metrics middleware [#100077](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/100077), [@clord](https://github.com/clord)
- **RBAC:** Don't check folder access if `annotationPermissionUpdate` FT is enabled [#100116](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/100116), [@IevaVasiljeva](https://github.com/IevaVasiljeva)