Impact Score: 5/10
Medusa v1.13.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Medusa v1.13.1. Source highlight: Environment variable `LOG_FILE` has been introduced to enable `winston` to write logs to file.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- feat(product): Move mikro orm utils to the utils package
- feat(medusa): Expose some commonly used utils
- feat(prduct, utils, types): Create soft delete pattern for link module
- feat(workflows): Improve typings
- feat(product, types, modules-sdk): added event bus events for products
- feat(medusa, types, utils, workflow): Migrate medusa workflow to the workflow package
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- fix(admin-ui): Customer Groups in Pricing + TIP
- fix(workflows): Workflow types
- fix(medusa): Assign metadata when creating a draft order or creating a line item
- chore(oas): fix tag names
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
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# Version 1.13.1
This version ships with minor fixes to Medusa Admin and an improvement to allow server logs to be written to file.
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## Highlights
### Write logs to file
Environment variable `LOG_FILE` has been introduced to enable `winston` to write logs to file.
Thanks, @pevey, for the contribution.
## Features
* feat(product): Move mikro orm utils to the utils package by @adrien2p in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4631
* feat(medusa): Expose some commonly used utils by @zhangpengchen in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4630
* feat(prduct, utils, types): Create soft delete pattern for link module by @adrien2p in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4649
* feat(workflows): Improve typings by @adrien2p in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4689
* feat(product, types, modules-sdk): added event bus events for products by @riqwan in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4654
* feat(medusa, types, utils, workflow): Migrate medusa workflow to the workflow package by @adrien2p in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4682
* feat(medusa): Allow logging to file by @pevey in #4696
* feat(medusa, utils): Allow object feature flags by @olivermrbl in #4701
## Bugs
* fix(admin-ui): Customer Groups in Pricing + TIP by @olivermrbl in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4670
* fix(workflows): Workflow types by @adrien2p in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4673
* fix(medusa): Assign metadata when creating a draft order or creating a line item by @zhangpengchen in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4662
## Chores
* chore(oas): fix tag names by @shahednasser in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4622
* chore: include rimraf as part of the build for most of the packages by @adrien2p in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4615
* chore(medusa): Update request-ip dependency version by @pevey in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4636
## New Contributors
* @specture48 made their first contribution in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4653
* @minhtungo made their first contribution in https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/pull/4665
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/compare/v1.13.0...v1.13.1