Impact Score: 5/10
Directus v10.0.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v10.0.0. Source highlight: In v10.0.0, Directus is adopting BSL 1.1 — with additional usage grants added in to keep the platform open and available. For nearly all of our community, today’s announcement won’t change a thing, but licenses can be intimidating, so let’s highlight the key points below:
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
In v10.0.0, Directus is adopting BSL 1.1 — with additional usage grants added in to keep the platform open and available. For nearly all of our community, today’s announcement won’t change a thing, but licenses can be intimidating, so let’s highlight the key points below:
- All Directus source code will still be open and available on GitHub
- Non-production use of Directus is still completely free for everyone
- Production use of Directus is still completely free for nearly all users
- Everyone can still use the entire Directus platform for free… unless you (your legal entity) exceed $5,000,000 USD in “total finances” per year
- Code released under this new license converts to GPLv3 (OSS) after 3 years
Massive thanks to everybody who chimed in on the discussion in https://github.com/directus/directus/discussions/17977 and on [Discord](https://directus.chat/) ❤️
For more information, please see our [blog post](https://directus.io/blog/why-we-are-relicensing-directus/) and [FAQ](https://directus.io/bsl-faq).
List of all the license updates below:
| Package | New License |
| ------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| `directus` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/api` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/app` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/composables` | MIT |
| `@directus/constants` | MIT |
| `@directus/create-directus-extension` | MIT |
| `@directus/exceptions` | MIT |
| `@directus/extensions-sdk` | MIT |
| `@directus/schema` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/specs` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/storage` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/storage-driver-azure` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/storage-driver-cloudinary` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/storage-driver-gcs` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/storage-driver-local` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/storage-driver-s3` | BSL 1.1 |
| `@directus/types` | MIT |
| `@directus/update-check` | MIT |
| `@directus/utils` | MIT |