# Medusa v2.5.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Medusa (https://medusajs.com)
- **Version:** v2.5.1
- **Released:** Feb 24, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/medusajs/updates/v2.5.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Medusa v2.5.1. Source highlight: Support outlet routes, loader, and handle

## New Features
- feat: query.index
- feat(dashboard,admin-vite-plugin): Add support for outlet routes, loader, and handle
- feat: allow all NodeSDK options via registerOtel
- feat(dashboard): Pickup option changes
- feat(): Backport metadata management
- feat(ui,dashboard): Move InlineTip to UI package

## Improvements
- chore: improvements to provider docs
- docs: many improvements to settings user guides

## Bug Fixes
- fix(dashboard): secret key display
- fix(utils): custom linkable keys
- fix(admin-vite-plugin,admin-bundler,ui,icons,dashboard,framework,types): Update Vite dependencies
- fix: Remove unnecessary swc production dependency
- fix(core-flows, types): reservation of shared inventory item
- fix(payment): update payment session data