Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 12.4.4
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Component: grafana ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.4.4. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **Browse dashboards:** Make elements visible and flow better when zoomed #120678, @aocenas
- **Docker:** Bump Alpine-based images to 3.23.4 #123027, @Proximyst
- **Go:** Update version to 1.26.3 #124456, @macabu
- **Graphite:** Strip tagged path from `tags.name` when `aliasSub` wrapping is detected #122619, @adamyeats
- **LibraryPanels:** Return 403 instead of 500 for insufficient permissions #123470, @MissingRoberto
- **Plugins:** Sanitise header values to printable ASCII for gRPC compatibility #122474, @adamyeats
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Fix AlertManagerPicker visibility to check Alertmanager datasources #124073, @konrad147
- **Alerting:** Treat not found error when fetching plugins as not installed #122989, @rodrigopk
- **DashboardDS:** Fix Mixed panels not updating on time-range change with stale upstreams #124893, @ivanortegaalba
- **Jaeger:** Fix log event timestamp unit conversion in trace view #123711, @ktw4071
- **PostgreSQL:** Allow sql_engine to return results for EXPLAIN queries #123245, @sdague
- **Security**: CVE-2026-9029
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/12.4.4)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Browse dashboards:** Make elements visible and flow better when zoomed [#120678](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/120678), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Docker:** Bump Alpine-based images to 3.23.4 [#123027](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/123027), [@Proximyst](https://github.com/Proximyst)
- **Go:** Update version to 1.26.3 [#124456](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/124456), [@macabu](https://github.com/macabu)
- **Graphite:** Strip tagged path from `tags.name` when `aliasSub` wrapping is detected [#122619](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/122619), [@adamyeats](https://github.com/adamyeats)
- **LibraryPanels:** Return 403 instead of 500 for insufficient permissions [#123470](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/123470), [@MissingRoberto](https://github.com/MissingRoberto)
- **Plugins:** Sanitise header values to printable ASCII for gRPC compatibility [#122474](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/122474), [@adamyeats](https://github.com/adamyeats)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix AlertManagerPicker visibility to check Alertmanager datasources [#124073](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/124073), [@konrad147](https://github.com/konrad147)
- **Alerting:** Treat not found error when fetching plugins as not installed [#122989](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/122989), [@rodrigopk](https://github.com/rodrigopk)
- **DashboardDS:** Fix Mixed panels not updating on time-range change with stale upstreams [#124893](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/124893), [@ivanortegaalba](https://github.com/ivanortegaalba)
- **Jaeger:** Fix log event timestamp unit conversion in trace view [#123711](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/123711), [@ktw4071](https://github.com/ktw4071)
- **PostgreSQL:** Allow sql_engine to return results for EXPLAIN queries [#123245](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/123245), [@sdague](https://github.com/sdague)
- **Security**: CVE-2026-9029
- **Security**: CVE-2026-33382
- **Security**: CVE-2026-42127
- **Security**: CVE-2026-42129
- **Security**: CVE-2026-10601
- **Security**: CVE-2026-8609
- **Security**: CVE-2026-8595