Strapi v5.16.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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✨ Features 2 ⚡ Improvements 1 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Strapi v5.16.0. Source highlight: **uid:** add regex attribute (#23141)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

**uid:** add regex attribute (#23141)
**content-type-builder:** add DidUpdateCTBSchema event (#23651)

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)

debounce blocks editor update (#23681)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

updated word break property for word wrap around (#23265, #23430)
design issues (#23719)
serve the correct document when we duplicate a document with a locale different than the default one (#23709)
display name of upload plugin in roles settings (#23739)
min/max value for components not clear (#23741)
bulk publish mutliple locales does not validate required media (#23750)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## 5.16.0 (2025-06-17) ### 🚀 New feature - **uid:** add regex attribute ([#23141](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23141)) ### 🔥 Bug fix - updated word break property for word wrap around ([#23265](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23265), [#23430](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23430)) - design issues ([#23719](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23719)) - serve the correct document when we duplicate a document with a locale different than the default one ([#23709](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23709)) - display name of upload plugin in roles settings ([#23739](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23739)) - min/max value for components not clear ([#23741](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23741)) - bulk publish mutliple locales does not validate required media ([#23750](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23750)) - **content-manager:** documentId missing from fields for the view and… ([#23604](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23604)) - **upload:** draggable element style ([#22098](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22098)) ### ⚙️ Chore - **content-type-builder:** add DidUpdateCTBSchema event ([#23651](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23651)) - upgrade formidable to 3.5.4 ([#23722](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23722)) - strapi DS v2.0.0-rc.26 bump ([#23752](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23752)) ### 💅 Enhancement - debounce blocks editor update ([#23681](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23681)) ### 🚨 Security - update docusaurus ([#23721](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23721)) ### ❤️ Thank You - Adrien L - Ankit @ankit7201 - Arsen @ar53n - Aurélien MANCA - Ben Irvin - Jamie Howard @jhoward1994 - markkaylor - Rémi de Juvigny @remidej - Simone

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