# Directus v9.5.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Directus (https://directus.io)
- **Version:** v9.5.0
- **Released:** Jan 24, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/directus/updates/v9.5.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Directus v9.5.0. Source highlight: :sparkles: New Features 🪳

## New Features
- #11094 Enable end-to-end tests for Oracle and SQLite (@Oreilles)
- #11050 Add CSV/JSON Import capability via App (@azrikahar)
- #11009 Add soft character limit to various inputs (@jaycammarano)
- #10911 Adds possible extra pino logger options through env vars (@keesvanbemmel)
- #10113 Implement CockroachDB support (@wodka)
- #10113 Implement CockroachDB support (@wodka)

## Improvements
- #11174 Improve end-to-end test displayed results (@Oreilles)
- #11164 Only render project descriptor if it is set (@nickrum)
- #11116 Disable login form when AUTH_DISABLE_DEFAULT is enabled (@diegoleme)
- #11103 Make email_notifications column a translated name (@rijkvanzanten)
- #11018 App: `use-edits-guard` (@joselcvarela)
- #11016 `has-edits` as part of `use-item` (@joselcvarela)

## Bug Fixes
- #11238 Use new pg_catalog based schema introspection (@rijkvanzanten)
- #11227 Fix nested transactions on SQLite (@licitdev)
- #11193 Set CRDB options to avoid inconsistencies between vendors (@rijkvanzanten)
- #11159 fix for filtering nested M2M relations (@zimmersi)
- #11129 Fix auth refresh issue (@azrikahar)
- #11112 Handle errors while pre-bundling App extensions more gracefully (@nickrum)