⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Directus v8.6.0 — 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.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
Fix auto increment of primary key breaking when hidden on browse was toggled
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v8.6.0. Source highlight: ✨ Add duplicate option to repeater interface
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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- Fix auto increment of primary key breaking when hidden on browse was toggled
✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- ✨ Add duplicate option to repeater interface
- ✨ Add ability to provide custom reset password URL
- ✨ Add `/auth/check` endpoint
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fix code interface syntax highlighting
- Various GraphQL fixes
- Fixed issue where private fields could be guessed through fields parameter
- Fixed issue where repeated logins in firefox could cause trouble
- Fix issue where logging in was prevented if auto sign out was set to null
- Fixed issue where the signed state wasn't able to be changed
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Changes
### App
* ✨ Add duplicate option to repeater interface
* Fix code interface syntax highlighting
* Use switch for tinyint field default interface
* Update translations
https://github.com/directus/app/projects/68
### API
* ✨ Add ability to provide custom reset password URL
* ✨ Add `/auth/check` endpoint
* ✨ Regenerate the thumbnail after an image is changed
* Various GraphQL fixes
* Fixed issue where private fields could be guessed through fields parameter
* Fixed issue where repeated logins in firefox could cause trouble
* Prevent replacing `_` by `-` in filenames
* Fix issue where logging in was prevented if auto sign out was set to null
* Fixed issue where the signed state wasn't able to be changed
* Fix auto increment of primary key breaking when hidden on browse was toggled
* Fix directus install:config cli command
* Fix upload problems due to missing ffmpeg/ffprobe extensions
* Fix issue where validation could fail for numerical inputs with decimals
* Fix issue where asset whitelist key was set to readonly
https://github.com/directus/api/projects/61