# Grafana v12.1.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v12.1.1
- **Released:** Aug 13, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v12.1.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.1.1. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **Alerting:** Add rule group name validation to the Prometheus conversion API #108767, @alexander-akhmetov
- **CloudWatch:** Update grafana/aws-sdk-go with STS endpo… #109357, @iwysiu
- **Go:** Update to 1.24.6 #109318, @Proximyst

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix active time intervals when time interval is renamed #108547, @yuri-tceretian
- **Alerting:** Fix subpath handling in the alerting package #109505, @konrad147
- **Config:** Fix date_formats options being moved to a different section #109366, @joshhunt