# Grafana v12.4.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v12.4.1
- **Released:** Mar 09, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v12.4.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.4.1. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **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
- **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