Impact Score: 5/10
Strapi v4.5.4 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v4.5.4. Source highlight: [core:admin] useFetchClient hook replacing axiosInstance (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14759) @simotae14
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- [core:admin] Add Turkish translation (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15145) @bdaylik
- [tooling] Add support team issue workflows to GH Actions (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14565) @derrickmehaffy
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (4)
- [core:admin] useFetchClient hook replacing axiosInstance (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14759) @simotae14
- [core:admin] replace some lodash function with native (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14996) @jimmywarting
- [core:content-type-builder] Tracking system, editing collection name (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14927) @simotae14
- [core:upload] ML: Empty state is shown after deleting all assets from a page (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14359) @gitstart
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- [docs] Fix typo (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15001) @fenghan34
- [cli] Fix create-strapi-app for commander 8.2.0 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15060) @innerdvations
- [core:admin] Change strapi icons color in dashboard (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15047) @simotae14
- [core:content-manager] Fix some usecases where deadlocks can happen (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15034) @petersg83
- [core:content-manager] fix: wrong editor focus checking method (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15052) @gitstart
- [core:content-manager] [CustomInputs]: add global cache to useLazyComponents (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15067) @joshuaellis
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### 💅 Enhancement
* [core:admin] useFetchClient hook replacing axiosInstance (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14759) @simotae14
* [core:admin] replace some lodash function with native (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14996) @jimmywarting
* [core:admin] Add Turkish translation (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15145) @bdaylik
* [core:content-type-builder] Tracking system, editing collection name (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14927) @simotae14
* [core:upload] ML: Empty state is shown after deleting all assets from a page (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14359) @gitstart
### ⚙️ Chore
* [dependencies] chore(deps): bump react-router-dom from 5.2.0 to 5.3.4 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14988) @dependabot
* [dependencies] chore(deps): bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15083) @dependabot
* [dependencies] chore(deps-dev): bump jest-styled-components from 7.0.2 to 7.1.1 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15090) @dependabot
* [tooling] Add support team issue workflows to GH Actions (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14565) @derrickmehaffy
### 📖 Documentation
* [docs] Fix typo (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15001) @fenghan34
### 🔥 Bug fix
* [cli] Fix create-strapi-app for commander 8.2.0 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15060) @innerdvations
* [core:admin] Change strapi icons color in dashboard (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15047) @simotae14
* [core:content-manager] Fix some usecases where deadlocks can happen (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15034) @petersg83
* [core:content-manager] fix: wrong editor focus checking method (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15052) @gitstart
* [core:content-manager] [CustomInputs]: add global cache to useLazyComponents (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15067) @joshuaellis
* [core:content-manager] [CRUDReducer]: Add flag to only set modified data (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15098) @joshuaellis
* [core:content-manager] fix: filter path because a dynamic zone is a component but it should be classified as a dynamic zone (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15139) @joshuaellis
* [core:content-manager] fix: Relations are missing a focus outline on a single item title (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15164) @gitstart
* [core:database] Fix: many to many relationship to the same content type gives error on save (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15003) @Marc-Roig
* [core:database] Fix all usecases where deadlocks can happen (for MySQL versions above 5 and MariaDB) (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15143) @petersg83
* [core:upload] Preserve folder id when cropping images (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15092) @gu-stav
* [core:upload] ML: Unable to select all media library assets, when page is greater than 1 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15132) @gitstart
* [generators:app] fix import of @strapi/icons/Puzzle in generated admin plugin (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15016) @tomscytale
* [tooling] [build-script]: use / as the path separator for glob.sync (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15140) @joshuaellis
### 🚨 Security
* [core:admin] Protect telemetry properties route (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15111) @christiancp100
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