# Directus v10.3.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Directus (https://directus.io)
- **Version:** v10.3.0
- **Released:** Jun 13, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/directus/updates/v10.3.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v10.3.0. Source highlight: ✨ New Features & Improvements

## New Features
- Integrated Websockets Subscriptions for REST and GraphQL in Directus 🕸️🧦 (#14737 by @br41nslug)
- A CRUD implementation over WebSockets
- A REST Subscriptions implementation
- GraphQL Subscriptions over WebSockets
- Three authentication modes: `public`, `handshake`, `strict`
- Authentication refresh with an open socket

## Improvements
- Improved Contributer Docs and Delete-by-Query (#18667 by @ConnorSimply)

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed CSS to render calendar and map layouts correctly (#18853 by @licitdev)
- Moved useAppStore to @directus/stores (#18829 by @rijkvanzanten)
- Added Albanian (sq-AL) to the list of translations (#18810 by @ninogjoni)
- Added recursive check for permissions in app side (#18871 by @azrikahar)
- Fixed app content filter _between (#18821 by @br41nslug)
- Fixed empty image selection error for file-image interface (#18761 by @licitdev)