chore: pin @grafana production deps to 12.4.2

[jackw]

Summary

Currently plugin scaffolds will fail dependency installs due to issues with publishing new versions of the packages in grafana/grafana to NPM. This PR addresses this by:

• Pins @grafana/data, @grafana/i18n, @grafana/runtime, @grafana/ui, and @grafana/schema from ^12.4.0 to 12.4.2 in the common plugin template

Test plan

• Scaffold a new plugin and verify package.json contains 12.4.2 for all @grafana/* production dependencies

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Pins Grafana runtime production dependencies in the create-plugin common template to a known-good patch version to avoid scaffold install failures caused by upstream NPM publishing issues.

Changes:

• Pin @grafana/{data,i18n,runtime,ui,schema} production deps in the common scaffold template from ^12.4.0 to 12.4.2.
• Temporarily disable the test-updates job in CI.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

File	Description
packages/create-plugin/templates/common/_package.json	Pins core @grafana/* production dependencies to 12.4.2 in the scaffolded plugin template.
.github/workflows/ci.yml	Comments out (disables) the test-updates CI job to avoid failures related to upstream publishing.

[Copilot]

The PR description focuses on pinning @grafana/* deps, but this change also disables the test-updates CI job. Please either update the PR description/test plan to mention this CI behavior change, or keep the job enabled (e.g., with a targeted fix) so the PR matches its stated scope.

[Copilot]

The comment 'Put back to 5.27.1 once resolved' is misleading since the scaffold step inside the disabled block is already pinned to 5.27.1. Suggest rewording to clarify what should be reverted (e.g., re-enable the job) and ideally link to a tracking issue/incident for when to turn this back on.

Suggested change

	# Temporarily disable to prevent failures due to NPM package publishing in grafana/grafana. Put back to 5.27.1 once resolved.
	# Temporarily disable this job to prevent failures caused by NPM package publishing issues in grafana/grafana.
	# Re-enable `test-updates` once the upstream issue is resolved, and add or reference the relevant tracking issue/incident here.

[Copilot]

Commenting out an entire job removes it from CI and also makes it easy for the block to drift without YAML validation. If this is meant to be temporary, consider keeping the job definition active and disabling it with an explicit condition (e.g., a boolean if: guard at the job level) so it remains syntactically validated and easy to re-enable.

Suggested change

	# Temporarily disable to prevent failures due to NPM package publishing in grafana/grafana. Put back to 5.27.1 once resolved.
	# test-updates:
	# name: Test create-plugin update command
	# runs-on: ubuntu-x64
	# if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'ci skip') && !contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'skip ci')"
	# needs: [test]
	# env:
	# WORKING_DIR: 'myorg-nobackend-panel'
	# steps:
	# - name: Setup nodejs
	# uses: actions/setup-node@6044e13b5dc448c55e2357c09f80417699197238 # v6.2.0
	# with:
	# node-version: '24'
	# - name: Scaffold plugin using the earliest create-plugin version mentioned in migrations
	# run: npx -y @grafana/create-plugin@5.27.1 --plugin-name='no-backend' --org-name='myorg' --plugin-type='panel'
	# - name: Install generated plugin dependencies
	# run: npm install --no-audit
	# working-directory: ./${{ env.WORKING_DIR }}
	# - name: Download packed artifacts
	# uses: actions/download-artifact@37930b1c2abaa49bbe596cd826c3c89aef350131 # v7.0.0
	# with:
	# name: packed-artifacts
	# path: ./packed-artifacts
	# Temporarily disable to prevent failures due to NPM package publishing in grafana/grafana.
	# Put back to 5.27.1 once resolved.
	test-updates:
	name: Test create-plugin update command
	runs-on: ubuntu-x64
	if: ${{ false }}
	needs: [test]
	env:
	WORKING_DIR: 'myorg-nobackend-panel'
	steps:
	- name: Temporarily disabled
	run: echo "Temporarily disabled pending upstream NPM package publishing issue in grafana/grafana."
	# Re-enable the steps below once the upstream issue is resolved.
	# - name: Setup nodejs
	# uses: actions/setup-node@6044e13b5dc448c55e2357c09f80417699197238 # v6.2.0
	# with:
	# node-version: '24'
	# - name: Scaffold plugin using the earliest create-plugin version mentioned in migrations
	# run: npx -y @grafana/create-plugin@5.27.1 --plugin-name='no-backend' --org-name='myorg' --plugin-type='panel'
	# - name: Install generated plugin dependencies
	# run: npm install --no-audit
	# working-directory: ./${{ env.WORKING_DIR }}
	# - name: Download packed artifacts
	# uses: actions/download-artifact@37930b1c2abaa49bbe596cd826c3c89aef350131 # v7.0.0
	# with:
	# name: packed-artifacts
	# path: ./packed-artifacts

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Playwright test results

Plugin Name	Image Name	Version	Result	Report
myorg-backend-datasource	grafana-enterprise	latest	❌	View report
myorg-nobackend-datasource	grafana-enterprise	latest	❌	View report
myorg-nobackend-panel	grafana-enterprise	latest	❌	View report

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