# Strapi v3.4.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Strapi (https://strapi.io)
- **Version:** v3.4.2
- **Released:** Jan 13, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/strapi/updates/v3.4.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v3.4.2. Source highlight: [core:database] Add session option to Strapi query for Mongo Multi-Document transaction (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/6447) @iicdii

## New Features
- [core:database] Add session option to Strapi query for Mongo Multi-Document transaction (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/6447) @iicdii
- [core:framework] feat(middleware-cors): allow setting cors origin with a method (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/8545) @shiningnova57
- [plugin:content-manager] Add missing German translations (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9063) @pr0gr8mm3r

## Improvements
- [core:framework] Configurable default _limit parameter (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/8377) @jozefcipa
- [core:framework] Consolidate lodash dependency to 4.17.20 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/8861) @jorrit
- [core:framework] if there are files (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9030) @jonmol
- [core:tooling] New integration tests (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/8673) @Convly
- [documentation] Update README to include a section for the live demo (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9089) @Mcastres
- [documentation] Adding documentation for M1 users (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9106) @mfrachet

## Bug Fixes
- [core:database] Fix query when filtering and sorting on a relational field (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9045) @petersg83
- [core:database] Fix deep query sort when using pagination operators (start, limit) & MongoDB (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9046) @Convly
- [core:database] Fix count method w/ D&P filters on MongoDB (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9094) @Convly
- [core:framework] Check that model and model.privateAttributes is not undefined (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/8669) @csandven
- [core:framework] Fix typo in load-plugins file pattern preventing the app to start (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/9070) @Convly
- [plugin:documentation] merge arrays in createDocObject and changed object equality function (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/7420) @gh0stsh0t