# Grafana v12.4.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v12.4.2
- **Released:** Mar 25, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v12.4.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.4.2. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **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
- **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