action: auto
reason: The only breaking change is about plugin environment variables, which does not affect a simple Prometheus + Node Exporter setup with no third-party plugins installed.
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[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/12.4.0)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)

### Breaking changes

- **Plugins:** Prevent passing host environment variables to plugin processes by default

### Features and enhancements

- **Alerting:** Add Alert Rules tabs navigation with feature toggle
- **Dashboards:** Add ability to share dashboards externally
- **Plugins:** Forward AWS SDK credential chain env vars to external AWS plugins

### Bug fixes

- **Dashboards:** Fix panel rendering issue with long time ranges
- **Prometheus:** Fix label matching in metric browser