chore: introduce toggle for decoupling plugins from bootdata (#114890)

chore: toggle for decoupling plugins from bootdata

packages/grafana-data/src/types/featureToggles.gen.ts

@@ -1211,4 +1211,9 @@ export interface FeatureToggles {
   * Adds support for Kubernetes alerting historian APIs
   */
   kubernetesAlertingHistorian?: boolean;
+  /**
+  * Enables plugins decoupling from bootdata
+  * @default false
+  */
+  useMTPlugins?: boolean;
 }

pkg/services/featuremgmt/registry.go

@@ -2000,6 +2000,14 @@ var (
 			Owner:           grafanaAlertingSquad,
 			RequiresRestart: true,
 		},
+		{
+			Name:         "useMTPlugins",
+			Description:  "Enables plugins decoupling from bootdata",
+			Stage:        FeatureStageExperimental,
+			Owner:        grafanaPluginsPlatformSquad,
+			FrontendOnly: true,
+			Expression:   "false",
+		},
 	}
 )
 

pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.csv

@@ -271,3 +271,4 @@ ttlPluginInstanceManager,experimental,@grafana/plugins-platform-backend,false,fa
 lokiQueryLimitsContext,experimental,@grafana/observability-logs,false,false,true
 rudderstackUpgrade,experimental,@grafana/grafana-frontend-platform,false,false,true
 kubernetesAlertingHistorian,experimental,@grafana/alerting-squad,false,true,false
+useMTPlugins,experimental,@grafana/plugins-platform-backend,false,false,true

pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.json

@@ -3558,6 +3558,20 @@
         "frontend": true
       }
     },
+    {
+      "metadata": {
+        "name": "useMTPlugins",
+        "resourceVersion": "1764913709691",
+        "creationTimestamp": "2025-12-05T05:48:29Z"
+      },
+      "spec": {
+        "description": "Enables plugins decoupling from bootdata",
+        "stage": "experimental",
+        "codeowner": "@grafana/plugins-platform-backend",
+        "frontend": true,
+        "expression": "false"
+      }
+    },
     {
       "metadata": {
         "name": "useMultipleScopeNodesEndpoint",
@@ -3674,4 +3688,4 @@
       }
     }
   ]
-}
+}