Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 12.4.2
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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 v12.4.2. 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
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (5)
- **Analytics tab:** Improve voice over accessibility (Enterprise)
- **Dashboards a11y:** Do not open time zonemenu on focus #120388, @idastambuk
- **Dashboards:** Resolve display names by identity in version history #120273, @ivanortegaalba
- **Plugins:** Forward AWS SDK credential chain env vars to external AWS plugins #120209, @kevinwcyu
- **Public Dashboards:** Prevent unintended CRUD operations from different orgs #120457, @mmandrus
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **IAM:** Handle NULL team_member.external column to fix dashboard loading #120179, @difro
- **Plugins:** Fix installer IsDisabled condition #120568, @andresmgot
- **Plugins:** Forward PLUGIN_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR to plugin processes to fix tmp dir in restricted environments #120275, @HarshadaGawas05
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27876
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27877
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-28375
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/12.4.2)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Analytics tab:** Improve voice over accessibility (Enterprise)
- **Dashboards a11y:** Do not open time zonemenu on focus [#120388](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120388), [@idastambuk](https://github.com/idastambuk)
- **Dashboards:** Resolve display names by identity in version history [#120273](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120273), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Plugins:** Forward AWS SDK credential chain env vars to external AWS plugins [#120209](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120209), [@kevinwcyu](https://github.com/kevinwcyu)
- **Public Dashboards:** Prevent unintended CRUD operations from different orgs [#120457](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120457), [@mmandrus](https://github.com/mmandrus)
### Bug fixes
- **IAM:** Handle NULL team_member.external column to fix dashboard loading [#120179](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120179), [@difro](https://github.com/difro)
- **Plugins:** Fix installer IsDisabled condition [#120568](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120568), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Plugins:** Forward PLUGIN_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR to plugin processes to fix tmp dir in restricted environments [#120275](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120275), [@HarshadaGawas05](https://github.com/HarshadaGawas05)
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27876
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27877
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-28375
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27879
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27880
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27876
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-33375