# Directus v12.6.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Directus (https://directus.io)
- **Version:** v12.6.1
- **Released:** Nov 04, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 6/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/directus/updates/v12.6.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v12.6.1 introduces new Environment Sync presets, a WYSIWYG allowed link protocols configuration, and numerous security patches addressing critical CVEs. It also optimizes M2M search filtering, table rendering performance, and sandboxed error handling.

## New Features
- Added 'Allowed Link Protocols' option to the WYSIWYG interface for custom URL schemes
- Added presets support to Environment Sync for global and role-scoped bookmarks and default views

## Improvements
- Improved table, select, menu, and color display rendering performance by replacing CSS v-bind() with inline styles
- Sped up table row selection checks by using a lookup set instead of full array scans
- Fixed M2M list searching to match related fields instead of junction fields and hidden IDs
- Updated core dependencies to address multiple CVEs

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed login redirects normalizing into protocol-relative URLs
- Fixed sandbox request URL scope validation not applying to redirect destinations
- Fixed Run Script operations and sandboxed extensions failing with 'illegal access' on error data
- Fixed add-mode environment sync pushes silently skipping new permissions with matching source IDs