⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Directus v9.23.4 — 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
⚠️ Potential Breaking Changes The output type of the `expires` property in GraphQL's auth login / refresh is now a string (BigInt) representation.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v9.23.4. Source highlight: ⚠️ Potential Breaking Changes
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 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.
⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- ⚠️ Potential Breaking Changes The output type of the `expires` property in GraphQL's auth login / refresh is now a string (BigInt) representation.
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- :warning: #17858 Simplify / improve release flow (by @rijkvanzanten)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)
- #17914 Fix cookie redaction in logs (by @br41nslug)
- ⚠️ #17908 Fix auth expires value larger than 32-bit integer for GraphQL (by @azrikahar)
- #17903 Fixed _nempty operator (by @br41nslug)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## v9.23.4 (March 24, 2023)
### ⚠️ Potential Breaking Changes
The output type of the `expires` property in GraphQL's auth login / refresh is now a string (BigInt) representation.
### :bug: Bug Fixes
- **API**
- [#17914](https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/17914) Fix cookie redaction in logs (by @br41nslug)
- ⚠️ [#17908](https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/17908) Fix auth expires value larger than 32-bit integer for GraphQL (by @azrikahar)
- [#17903](https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/17903) Fixed _nempty operator (by @br41nslug)
### :sponge: Optimizations
- **API**
- [#17904](https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/17904) TS Config Modernization Program Part 3 of many (by @rijkvanzanten)
- **Misc.**
- :warning: [#17858](https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/17858) Simplify / improve release flow (by @rijkvanzanten)