action: auto
reason: Patch release with security fixes, minor enhancements, and bug fixes. No breaking changes or manual steps required.
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[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/12.4.2)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)

### Features and enhancements

- **Analytics tab:** Improve voice over accessibility (Enterprise)
- **Dashboards a11y:** Do not open time zonemenu on focus
- **Dashboards:** Resolve display names by identity in version history
- **Plugins:** Forward AWS SDK credential chain env vars to external AWS plugins
- **Public Dashboards:** Prevent unintended CRUD operations from different orgs

### Bug fixes

- **IAM:** Handle NULL team_member.external column to fix dashboard loading
- **Plugins:** Fix installer IsDisabled condition
- **Plugins:** Forward PLUGIN_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR to plugin processes to fix tmp dir in restricted environments
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27876
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27877
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-28375
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27879
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-27880
- **Security:** Fixes CVE-2026-33375