# Medusa v2.22.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Medusa (https://medusajs.com)
- **Version:** v2.22.2
- **Released:** Oct 30, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 8/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/medusajs/updates/v2.22.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Medusa v2.22.2 introduces an official beta Adyen payment provider, major search improvements, and a comprehensive round of dependency updates. Developers should note behavior changes in BigNumber and body-parser validation that may cause custom code to throw errors instead of returning fallback values.

## New Features
- Official Adyen payment provider module in beta for card payments, captures, and refunds

## Improvements
- Search enhancements and fixes for more reliable product and catalog search
- Broad round of dependency updates including Vite v7.3.7, BigNumber 11, and body-parser 1.20.9

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed payment session replacement issues and active payment preservation
- Disabled payment providers removed from config on startup and reject webhooks for nonexistent providers
- Fixed pricing overrides, inventory reservations, and order claim writing bugs