Impact Score: 5/10
Strapi v1.5.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: strapi · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v1.5.0. Source highlight: Removed deprecated `dashboard` hook since the admin panel is now open-source.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added `--dry` option to generate Strapi applications without built-in features and ORM.
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Improved email regex for login via the CLI.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
- Removed deprecated `dashboard` hook since the admin panel is now open-source.
- Removed deprecated poweredBy config.
- Make sure connections have an appropriate migrate strategy.
- Ignore API public directories in dictionary.
- Fixed Grant config.
- Take advantage of multiple environment config with clusters.
- Improved email regex for login via the CLI.
- Auto-install adapters on restart.
- Auto-install template engines on restart.
- Added `--dry` option to generate Strapi applications without built-in features and ORM.
- Use tilde ranges for npm dependencies to make sure we don't break existing applications.