Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 12.4.1
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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 v12.4.1. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- **AccessControl:** Invalidate scope resolver cache on datasource deletion #118741, @mihai-turdean
- **Go:** Update to 1.25.8 #119693, @macabu
- **Rendering:** Add support for custom CA certs in Image Renderer #118859, @mrevutskyi
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)
- **AccessControl:** Fix test utility for datasource deletion permissions cleanup (Enterprise)
- **Alerting:** Change scope for testing new receivers to use supported resource type. #118495, @yuri-tceretian
- **Alerting:** Fix CollateAlertRuleGroup migration for MariaDB compatibility #119028, @alexander-akhmetov
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/12.4.1)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **AccessControl:** Invalidate scope resolver cache on datasource deletion [#118741](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/118741), [@mihai-turdean](https://github.com/mihai-turdean)
- **Go:** Update to 1.25.8 [#119693](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/119693), [@macabu](https://github.com/macabu)
- **Rendering:** Add support for custom CA certs in Image Renderer [#118859](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/118859), [@mrevutskyi](https://github.com/mrevutskyi)
### Bug fixes
- **AccessControl:** Fix test utility for datasource deletion permissions cleanup (Enterprise)
- **Alerting:** Change scope for testing new receivers to use supported resource type. [#118495](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/118495), [@yuri-tceretian](https://github.com/yuri-tceretian)
- **Alerting:** Fix CollateAlertRuleGroup migration for MariaDB compatibility [#119028](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/119028), [@alexander-akhmetov](https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov)