Impact Score: 5/10
Directus v8.5.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: directus · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v8.5.5. Source highlight: Fix `signed` toggle showing up for non-numeric fields
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 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.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added readonly state to markdown interface
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fix `signed` toggle showing up for non-numeric fields
- Various style glitch fixes
- Fix issue in the datetime interface that could cause the value to disappear
- Fix issue in datetime interface not showing relative dates correctly
- Fix contextual menu in header button positioning issue
- Fix wrong labels in user-modified / owner interface options
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Changes
### App
* Fix `signed` toggle showing up for non-numeric fields
* Only send up primary key of selected m2m items
* Added readonly state to markdown interface
* Various style glitch fixes
* Fix issue in the datetime interface that could cause the value to disappear
* Fix issue in datetime interface not showing relative dates correctly
* Fix contextual menu in header button positioning issue
* Don't overflow column names in field setup table
* Fix wrong labels in user-modified / owner interface options
* Fix documentation link on requirements check
* Fix selecting users on the role detail page
* Fix selecting files on wysiwyg
* Fix empty color interface on load
* Fix missing options tab for interfaces with no options
* Accept nested files in file preview
* Resolve issue with preview of value in nested m2ms
### API
* Don't allow deleting the last admin user
* Fix cookie stickyness requirement in load balanced environments
### Note
* ⚠️ The datetime interface uses a new engine for date parsing. This might cause an inconsistency when using a custom format in the `formatting` option of the `datetime` interface. You might have to re-setup the formatting option for the `datetime` interface to match the replaced formatting engine.