# Strapi v4.0.3 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Strapi (https://strapi.io)
- **Version:** v4.0.3
- **Released:** Jan 05, 2022
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/strapi/updates/v4.0.3/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v4.0.3. Source highlight: [core:admin] Fixes #12045 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12050) @soupette

## New Features
- [core:upload] Add confirm alert on close modal (upload) & bump DS version (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12053) @HichamELBSI

## Improvements
- [cli] Update README.md (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12113) @Mcastres
- [core:admin] Always remove the build and cache folder when running the build command (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12012) @soupette
- [core:admin] Update plugin generators for the admin files (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12049) @soupette
- [core:admin] Upgrade webpack config and related dependencies (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12078) @soupette
- [core:strapi] Remove the build directory from the watched files list (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/11997) @Convly

## Bug Fixes
- [core:admin] Fixes #12045 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12050) @soupette
- [core:admin] Add lowercase validation to email for registering admin user. (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12091) @soupette
- [core:content-manager] Fix: show correct number of decimals in content manager (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/11890) @oscarsandberg
- [core:content-manager] Fix issue that italic style is ignored in preview mode on markdown editor (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12025) @iicdii
- [core:content-manager] Fix firefox drag n drop (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12061) @HichamELBSI
- [core:email] Fix wrong axios instance in email plugin (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/12036) @soupette