# Medusa v1.20.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Medusa (https://medusajs.com)
- **Version:** v1.20.0
- **Released:** Jan 09, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/medusajs/updates/v1.20.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Medusa v1.20.0. Source highlight: Improved Stripe plugin architecture + webhook

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- 🚧 **Breaking change in `medusa-plugin-stripe`**
- Two important changes have been introduced to the Stripe plugin, one of which is breaking.
- 🚧 **Breaking change** Several issues have been filed related to failing registrations of different types of services, such as payment providers, fulfillment providers, and similar. The culprit to these issues was found in how we check the type of the service class.

## New Features
- feat(medusa): add currency to region responses
- feat(medusa): Update shipping option price type
- feat(medusa, link-modules): sales channel <> product module link
- feat(admin): Added Simplified Chinese support
- feat(admin): Bulgarian language support
- feat(medusa): Slovenian(sl) translation

## Bug Fixes
- fix: redis_options for job scheduler
- fix(medusa): Passport loader resolving to early
- fix: Typo in documentation
- fix(medusa, medusa-js): publishable api key bugs
- fix(medusa, pricing, types): pass dates as Date-objects rather than strings to the pricing module
- fix(utils): More resilient object from string path