# Grafana v12.2.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v12.2.4
- **Released:** Jan 27, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v12.2.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.2.4. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **API:** Add missing scope check on dashboards #116889, @Proximyst
- **Avatar:** Require sign-in, remove queue, respect timeout #116895, @macabu
- **Docs:** Clarify section title for repeating rows and tabs #115345, @imatwawana
- **ElasticSearch:** Update annotation time-range properties #115565, @aangelisc
- **Explore:** Reset legend when a new query is run #116589, @ifrost
- **Go:** Update to 1.25.6 #116399, @macabu

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix a race condition panic in ResetStateByRuleUID #115694, @alexander-akhmetov