# Medusa v1.17.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Medusa (https://medusajs.com)
- **Version:** v1.17.0
- **Released:** Sep 29, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/medusajs/updates/v1.17.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Medusa v1.17.0. Source highlight: New and improved authentication methods

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- API tokens** (⚠️ breaking changes) The header for API token authentication has changed from a Bearer authorization scheme to a custom header scheme specific to Medusa, `x-medusa-access-token`.
- - Updated API of Button, Badge, and CodeBlock (⚠️ breaking changes)

## New Features
- feat(utils): Provide an utils that allows to convert an array of fields to a complete remote query object
- feat(medusa): Migrate remote query usage in store product domain to use an object
- feat(medusa): Admin get product with isolated module
- feat(medusa): Admin list product with product isolated module
- feat(medusa): Remove create product unnecessary input config workflow
- feat(medusa): Authentication overhaul

## Improvements
- docs: Improve Loaders documentation
- docs: improve tailwind configuration
- docs: expanded rating form + UI docs improvement

## Bug Fixes
- fix(medusa, workflows): Create product workflow with Isolated modules + module registration
- fix(admin-ui): translation pt
- fix(medusa-payment-stripe): adds missing undefined check
- fix(admin-ui): Allow nullish values in update variant
- fix(admin-ui): typos in text
- fix(medusa): Product model before insert hook