# Directus v10.9.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Directus (https://directus.io)
- **Version:** v10.9.0
- **Released:** Feb 06, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/directus/updates/v10.9.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v10.9.0. Source highlight: ⚠️ Potential Breaking Changes

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- ⚠️ Potential Breaking Changes - **@directus/api**

## New Features
- Enabled theme override permissions to be set on a per role basis (#20899 by @ComfortablyCoding)
- Added focal point support for images (#20768 by @DanielBiegler)
- Added a hash display (#20883 by @ComfortablyCoding)
- Added enable/disable support for bundle type extensions (#20940 by @ComfortablyCoding)
- Prevented loading of sidebar details (revisions, comments, shares etc) until they are opened (#20848 by @ComfortablyCoding)
- Added an icon and icon color option for the select dropdown interface choices, added an icon and icon color option for label display choices and added default colors for the status field display (#20782 by @ComfortablyCoding)

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue of not being able to insert or filter big integer fields via GraphQL (#20888 by @mahendraHegde)
- Fixed an issue that would prevent prefix-based casted values in environment variables not to be extracted properly. (#21218 by @mahendraHegde)
- Fixed collection meta fields sometimes not showing and saving properly (#20912 by @DanielBiegler)
- Added `useSdk` composable for use in the App and extensions (#20811 by @br41nslug)
- Fixed the system theme overrides interface color rules to refresh on external changes (#20951 by @ComfortablyCoding)
- Added option in the translation interface for opening the splitview by default (#21160 by @DanielBiegler)