⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Appwrite 1.5.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: appwrite · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
- Appwrite Cloud is not yet updated to 1.5.x, expect an announcement in the upcoming weeks. If you lock your Appwrite SDK version, this update is not breaking.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Appwrite 1.5.0. Source highlight: SSR support added. You can now handle sessions on your server app.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- - Appwrite Cloud is not yet updated to 1.5.x, expect an announcement in the upcoming weeks. If you lock your Appwrite SDK version, this update is not breaking.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- SSR support added. You can now handle sessions on your server app.
- Learn more in docs
- 2FA support is now added for Appwrite Auth and for Console users.
- Learn about adding 2FA to your app
- Learn about 2FA on Console
- Appwrite Messaging added. You can now send emails, SMS messages, and push notifications.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## What's Changed
### New features
- SSR support added. You can now handle sessions on your server app.
- [Learn more in docs](https://appwrite.io/docs/products/auth/server-side-rendering)
- 2FA support is now added for Appwrite Auth and for Console users.
- [Learn about adding 2FA to your app](https://appwrite.io/docs/products/auth/2fa)
- [Learn about 2FA on Console](https://appwrite.io/docs/advanced/security/2fa)
- Appwrite Messaging added. You can now send emails, SMS messages, and push notifications.
- [Learn more in docs](https://appwrite.io/docs/products/messaging)
- Appwrite now has enums for all config strings for OAuth, messaging adaptors, and more.
- [Learn more in the docs](https://appwrite.io/docs/sdks)
- New runtime versions for Dart, Bun, Ruby, Node, Deno, Python, PHP, Kotlin, Java, and Swift.
- [Learn more in docs](https://appwrite.io/docs/products/functions/runtimes)
- Create custom login flows with custom sessions and tokens.
- [Learn more in docs](https://appwrite.io/docs/products/auth/custom-token)
### Upgrading
- Appwrite Cloud is not yet updated to 1.5.x, expect an announcement in the upcoming weeks. If you lock your Appwrite SDK version, this update is not breaking.
- Follow the [self-hosted docs](https://appwrite.io/docs/advanced/self-hosting/update) to update your self-hosted Appwrite.
- Update your SDKs to the latest versions. The API is backwards compatible, using old SDKs will not break existing apps, but you will not have access to new features.
## New Contributors
* @fanksin made their first contribution in https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/7276
* @iMacHumphries made their first contribution in https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/7350
* @UtkarshAhuja2003 made their first contribution in https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/7365
* @Souptik2001 made their first contribution in https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/7559
* @GuptaPratik02 made their first contribution in https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/6826
* @navjotNSK made their first contribution in https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/7651
* @DylanG-64 made their first contribution in https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/pull/7728
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/compare/1.4.13...1.5.0