# Directus v9.23.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Directus (https://directus.io)
- **Version:** v9.23.0
- **Released:** Feb 28, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/directus/updates/v9.23.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v9.23.0. Source highlight: :sparkles: New Features

## New Features
- #14713 Expose schema endpoints (by @azrikahar)

## Improvements
- #17633 Catch IPTC and XMP extraction errors (by @licitdev)
- #17615 Additionally check for varchar when casting UUID in apply diff (by @azrikahar)
- #17481 Allow offset and page args for GraphQL aggregated queries (by @licitdev)
- #17448 Allow for custom robots.txt (by @Nitwel)
- #16773 Flows improvements (by @Nitwel)
- #17416 Make sort fields hidden by default (by @Nitwel)

## Bug Fixes
- #17622 Catch ICC parse errors to avoid server crash (by @TeyKey1)
- #17499 Throw validation error after authorization (by @licitdev)
- #17441 Fix using strings for flow trigger collections (by @Nitwel)
- #17350 Update axios (by @rijkvanzanten)
- #17343 Fix sort added by offset not removed for MSSQL (by @licitdev)
- #17268 GraphQL return original error (#17168) (by @LeBenLeBen)