# Grafana v12.4.6 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v12.4.6
- **Released:** Jul 21, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v12.4.6/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v12.4.6. Source highlight: Download page

## New Features
- **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
- **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