Strapi v5.18.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

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✨ Features 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Strapi v5.18.0. Source highlight: homepage widget profile (#23829)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

homepage widget profile (#23829)
homepage widget assigned to me (#23848)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

preserve non-localized fields when updating localized content for new locale (#23830)
use documentId as mainField fallback (#23796)
make upgrade tool work with a proxy (#23847)
added missing e2e test for homepage profile widget (#23850)
resolve labels overflowing issue in Api-Token creation Permissions Accordian. (#23526)
guided tour test types (#23877)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## 5.18.0 (2025-07-09) ### 🚀 New feature - homepage widget profile ([#23829](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23829)) - homepage widget assigned to me ([#23848](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23848)) ### 🔥 Bug fix - preserve non-localized fields when updating localized content for new locale ([#23830](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23830)) - use documentId as mainField fallback ([#23796](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23796)) - make upgrade tool work with a proxy ([#23847](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23847)) - added missing e2e test for homepage profile widget ([#23850](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23850)) - resolve labels overflowing issue in Api-Token creation Permissions Accordian. ([#23526](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23526)) - guided tour test types ([#23877](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23877)) - fix condition loss on relation field ([#23885](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23885)) - release build process ([#23917](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23917)) - **api-tokens:** update lastUsedAt if it's null ([#23870](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23870)) ### ⚙️ Chore - strapi DS v2.0.0-rc.28 bump ([cedd719a48](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/cedd719a48)) ### ❤️ Thank You - Adrien L - Bassel Kanso @Bassel17 - markkaylor - PapatMayuri @PapatMayuri - Rémi de Juvigny @remidej - Simone - Simone Taeggi - Ziyi

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