Ghost v5.4.0stable Released Jul 15, 2022
Impact Score: 5/10

Ghost v5.4.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Ghost v5.4.0. Source highlight: ✨ Redirected Members to previous post/page upon sign-in - Fabien 'egg' O'Carroll

Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

💻 Software Engineers & Devs

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📊 Product & Engineering Leads

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⚙️ DevOps & Security

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

  • ✨ Added member count helpers (#15013) - Ronald Langeveld
  • 🎨 Added link to GitHub release for current version - jp

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)

  • 🐛 Fixed tag url field when explicitly querying fields - Fabien 'egg' O'Carroll
  • 🐛 Fixed `comped` flag behavior in Member API (#15030) - Naz
  • 🐛 Fixed code card not correctly saving language when changing - Kevin Ansfield
  • 🐛 Fixed missing authors in webhook payload - Naz
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
* ✨ Redirected Members to previous post/page upon sign-in - Fabien 'egg' O'Carroll * ✨ Added member count helpers (#15013) - Ronald Langeveld * `{total_members}` - https://ghost.org/docs/themes/helpers/total_members/ * `{total_paid_members}` - https://ghost.org/docs/themes/helpers/total_paid_members/ * 🎨 Updated Casper to v5.2.1 - Sodbileg Gansukh * 🎨 Added link to GitHub release for current version - jp * 🐛 Excluded plan changes from paid subscribers graph in dashboard - Simon Backx * 🐛 Updated support email verification flow (#15029) - Simon Backx * 🐛 Fixed tag url field when explicitly querying fields - Fabien 'egg' O'Carroll * 🐛 Fixed `comped` flag behavior in Member API (#15030) - Naz * 🐛 Fixed code card not correctly saving language when changing - Kevin Ansfield * 🐛 Fixed missing authors in webhook payload - Naz --- View the changelogs for full details: * Ghost - https://github.com/tryghost/ghost/compare/v5.3.1...v5.4.0 * Admin - https://github.com/tryghost/admin/compare/v5.3.1...v5.4.0 🪄 Love open source? We're hiring [Node.js Engineers](https://careers.ghost.org/product-engineer-node-js) to work on Ghost full-time