# Strapi v4.26.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Strapi (https://strapi.io)
- **Version:** v4.26.0
- **Released:** Oct 27, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/strapi/updates/v4.26.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v4.26.0. Source highlight: Releases: 4.25.24

## Improvements
- enhancement: backport change database hash from md5 to sha25 to v4