Strapi v4.9.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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✨ Features 6 ⚡ Improvements 6 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Strapi v4.9.0. Source highlight: [core:data-transfer] [Data Transfer] Data Transfer Pull (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16006) @innerdvations @Bassel17 @christiancp100 @Convly @simotae14

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)

[core:data-transfer] [Data Transfer] Data Transfer Pull (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16006) @innerdvations @Bassel17 @christiancp100 @Convly @simotae14
[core:upload] [Feature]: Private S3 bucket provider (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15773) @Marc-Roig
[core:admin] EE Add audit logs configuration and react to license changes (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15913) @remidej
[core:strapi] Add Not implemented error class (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15938) @derrickmehaffy
[core:upload] Add baseUrl and rootPath properties to upload-aws-s3 plugin's configuration (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/13040) @v-dimitroff
[core:database] Persist DB tables for EE features (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16084) @jhoward1994

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (6)

[core:admin] Reduce and optimize lodash usage in the admin app (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16119) @gu-stav
[core:content-manager] InputUID: Hide re-generate button when field is disabled (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16141) @gu-stav
[core:database] Return newly created IDs when using createMany (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14269) @WalkingPizza
[core:strapi] Perf optimizations (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16117) @alexandrebodin
[dependencies] Use Yarn3 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16124) @joshuaellis
[plugin:graphql] Remove subscriptions-transport-ws package from graphql plugin (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16108) @Bassel17

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

[core:strapi] fix(logger): remove request status code coloring (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16064) @sjoukedv
[core:admin] Auth: Trim whitespace from fields (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16177) @gu-stav
[core:content-manager] Single components should not populate if they're not required (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16158) @joshuaellis
[core:data-transfer] Fix error handling for transfer websocket connection (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15971) @Bassel17
[core:helper-plugin] useAPIErrorHandler: Reverse error handling (API -> Axios) (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16162) @gu-stav
[core:strapi] fix typo in examples (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15029) @scissorstail

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

### 🚀 New feature * [core:data-transfer] [Data Transfer] Data Transfer Pull (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16006) @innerdvations @Bassel17 @christiancp100 @Convly @simotae14 * [core:upload] [Feature]: Private S3 bucket provider (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15773) @Marc-Roig ### 💅 Enhancement * [core:admin] EE Add audit logs configuration and react to license changes (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15913) @remidej * [core:admin] Reduce and optimize lodash usage in the admin app (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16119) @gu-stav * [core:content-manager] InputUID: Hide re-generate button when field is disabled (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16141) @gu-stav * [core:database] Return newly created IDs when using createMany (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14269) @WalkingPizza * [core:strapi] Add Not implemented error class (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15938) @derrickmehaffy * [core:strapi] fix(logger): remove request status code coloring (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16064) @sjoukedv * [core:strapi] Perf optimizations (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16117) @alexandrebodin * [core:upload] Add baseUrl and rootPath properties to upload-aws-s3 plugin's configuration (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/13040) @v-dimitroff * [dependencies] Use Yarn3 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16124) @joshuaellis * [core:database] Persist DB tables for EE features (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16084) @jhoward1994 * [plugin:graphql] Remove subscriptions-transport-ws package from graphql plugin (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16108) @Bassel17 ### 🔥 Bug fix * [core:admin] Auth: Trim whitespace from fields (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16177) @gu-stav * [core:content-manager] Single components should not populate if they're not required (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16158) @joshuaellis * [core:data-transfer] Fix error handling for transfer websocket connection (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15971) @Bassel17 * [core:helper-plugin] useAPIErrorHandler: Reverse error handling (API -> Axios) (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16162) @gu-stav * [core:strapi] fix typo in examples (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15029) @scissorstail * [core:strapi] Allow to sort by ID in the sort sanitize operations (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16139) @Convly * [core:upload] Decouple image resizing and optimization (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/14029) @WalkingPizza * [generators:app] fix: use default postgres port for fallback (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16129) @arthurjdam * [tooling] Skip cache on `build:ts` in CI (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16229) @joshuaellis ### ⚙️ Chore * [core:admin] Add `module` to mainFields (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16225) @joshuaellis * [core:upload] fix(core upload): add missing FR translations (signed) (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16156) @edlefebvre * [core:utils] Expand nx usage and migrate logger to ts (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/15957) @alexandrebodin * [dependencies] Update Design System to 1.6.6 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16113) @joshuaellis * [dependencies] build(deps): bump webpack-dev-server from 4.11.1 to 4.13.1 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16154) @dependabot * [dependencies] build(deps): bump react-intl from 6.2.8 to 6.3.2 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16155) @dependabot * [dependencies] build(deps): bump sanitize-html from 2.7.3 to 2.10.0 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16160) @dependabot * [dependencies] build(deps): bump react-window from 1.8.7 to 1.8.8 (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16175) @dependabot * [tooling] Separate Experimental & Nightly releases (https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/16200) @joshuaellis --- ### 📚 Update and Migration Guides - General update guide can be found [here](https://docs.strapi.io/developer-docs/latest/update-migration-guides/update-version.html) - Migration guides can be found [here](https://docs.strapi.io/developer-docs/latest/update-migration-guides/migration-guides.html) 📚

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