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 ## Technical notes
 
-There are no additional upgrade steps to complete for this version of Grafana.
+The upgrade to Grafana v9.4 includes changes to the Grafana database for Grafana alerting that are not backward compatible. As a result, when you upgrade to Grafana v9.4, do not downgrade your Grafana instance to an earlier version. Doing so might cause issues with managing your Grafana alerts.