Impact Score: 5/10
Saleor 3.23.38 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: saleor ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Saleor 3.23.38. Source highlight: **Dependencies & security:**
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- Added possibility for apps to declare deprecation status
- Added `externalReference` support to Promotion and Category by @DamianCzajkowski in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19830 + https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19831
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Upgraded urllib3 to fix CVE-2026-97689, CVE-2026-97688, CVE-2026-97687
- Upgraded Python to latest patch version (3.12.15) to fix CVE-2026-19445 and CVE-2026-19553
- Fixed checkout payload crash when assigned delivery is deleted
- Fixed migrations not respecting `POPULATE_DEFAULTS` preference
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## What's Changed
**Dependencies & security:**
* Upgraded urllib3 to fix CVE-2026-97689, CVE-2026-97688, CVE-2026-97687 by @NyanKiyoshi in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19859
* Upgraded cryptography to upgrade to the latest OpenSSL version (https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt) by @NyanKiyoshi in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19859
* Upgraded Python to latest patch version (3.12.15) to fix CVE-2026-19445 and CVE-2026-19553
**Features:**
* Added possibility for apps to declare deprecation status by @lkostrowski in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19814
* Added `externalReference` support to Promotion and Category by @DamianCzajkowski in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19830 + https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19831
**Fixes:**
* Fixed checkout payload crash when assigned delivery is deleted by @lkostrowski in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19821
* Fixed migrations not respecting `POPULATE_DEFAULTS` preference by @stmpn in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19848
## New Contributors
* @DamianCzajkowski made their first contribution in https://github.com/saleor/saleor/pull/19830
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/saleor/saleor/compare/3.23.37...3.23.38