# Strapi v5.24.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Strapi (https://strapi.io)
- **Version:** v5.24.1
- **Released:** Sep 25, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/strapi/updates/v5.24.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v5.24.1. Source highlight: ⚠️  This version is deprecated. Please use 5.24.2 🙏

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- This release does **not** introduce breaking changes in any documented Strapi APIs or functions.

## New Features
- Advanced Session Configuration (#24346)

## Bug Fixes
- database is corrupt with orphaned relations (#24316)
- assert admin.auth.secret on bootstrap instead of init (a1b9cf7971)
- Special thanks to @laurenskling for all the help debugging and testing!