Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 12.4.6
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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 v12.4.6. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- **Alerting:** Add protected fields authorization check to provisioning API #127940, [@grafana-writer[bot]](https://github.com/grafana-writer[bot])
- **Alerting:** Return 403 instead of 500 on contact point provenance mismatch #127814, @rwwiv
- **Go:** Update version to 1.26.5 #128017, @macabu
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- **Jaeger:** Handle gzip, deflate, and brotli compressed API responses #128062, @zoltanbedi
- **alerting:** fix ORM table mapping bug causing SELECT alert_rule columns FROM user on PostgreSQL #128753, @dhananjay6561
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/12.4.6)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Alerting:** Add protected fields authorization check to provisioning API [#127940](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/127940), [@grafana-writer[bot]](https://github.com/grafana-writer[bot])
- **Alerting:** Return 403 instead of 500 on contact point provenance mismatch [#127814](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/127814), [@rwwiv](https://github.com/rwwiv)
- **Go:** Update version to 1.26.5 [#128017](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/128017), [@macabu](https://github.com/macabu)
### Bug fixes
- **Jaeger:** Handle gzip, deflate, and brotli compressed API responses [#128062](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/128062), [@zoltanbedi](https://github.com/zoltanbedi)
- **alerting:** fix ORM table mapping bug causing SELECT alert_rule columns FROM user on PostgreSQL [#128753](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/128753), [@dhananjay6561](https://github.com/dhananjay6561)