# Grafana v12.3.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v12.3.0
- **Released:** Nov 19, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v12.3.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.3.0. Source highlight: Download page

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking changes - **Faro:** Update configuration with best practices [#112108](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/112108), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)

## New Features
- **API Clients:** Add lazy hooks to clients #113226, @tomratcliffe
- **API clients:** Extract into a package #111810, @Clarity-89
- **API clients:** Extract into a package (Enterprise)
- **API clients:** Update API clients to include all endpoints & add hooks #113061, @tomratcliffe
- **AccessControl:** Include hidden roles in service account role display #112924, @Jguer
- **AccessControl:** Increase limit of LBAC for Datasources rules #111560, @Jguer

## Bug Fixes
- **API clients:** Automatically set PATCH headers #111879, @Clarity-89
- **Access Control:** Fix the permission checks for saving/updating/deleting annotations #112953, @IevaVasiljeva
- **Accessibility:** Improve no-unreduced-motion rule and fix violations #110304, @tomratcliffe
- **Alerting Provisioning:** Don't error on recording rules without conditions #109410, @djpnicholls
- **Alerting:** Clear outdated settings when switching contact point type #111869, @konrad147
- **Alerting:** Fix enrichment tab to be rendered only for grafana alerting rules #113030, @soniaAguilarPeiron