# authentik version/2023.10.5 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** authentik (https://goauthentik.io)
- **Version:** version/2023.10.5
- **Released:** Dec 21, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/authentik/updates/version-2023.10.5/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
authentik version/2023.10.5. Source highlight: See https://goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2023.10#fixed-in-2023105

## New Features
- events: add better fallback for sanitize_item to ensure everything can be saved as JSON (cherry-pick #7694)

## Improvements
- blueprints: improve file change handler (cherry-pick #7813)
- stages/email: improve error handling for incorrect template syntax (cherry-pick #7758)

## Bug Fixes
- tests: fix flaky tests (cherry-pick #7676)
- web: fix overflow glitch on ak-page-header (cherry-pick #7883)
- root: Fix cache related image build issues (cherry-pick #7831)
- web/user: fix search not updating app (cherry-pick #7825)