# Grafana v12.4.4 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v12.4.4
- **Released:** Jun 09, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v12.4.4/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.4.4. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **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

## Bug Fixes
- **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