Admin password reverted to a previous value after an upgrade

Grafana Installation
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    current grafana version = Grafana v11.1.0
    Grafana OSS installed On Premises linux server RHEL 8.9

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    upgrade grafana to v11.6.1+security-01

  • How are you trying to achieve it?’

    1. folowing files/directories were backed up before upgrade - /etc/grafana/ , /usr/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service , /var/lib/grafana/,/var/log/grafana/ , /var/lib/grafana/plugins/

    2. grafana-11.6.1+security~01-1.x86_64.rpm was copied to /tmp

    3. upgrade done using command - “sudo dnf localinstall /tmp/grafana-11.6.1+security~01-1.x86_64.rpm”

    4. restarted grafana service

  • What happened?

admin password reverted to a previous value after an upgrade.
everything else is working fine.

  • What did you expect to happen?
    i expected admin password not to be changed to previous value.

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
    no

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
    official documents + took additional backup to be on the safer side.