Strapi v5.38.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

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✨ Features 4 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Strapi v5.38.0. Source highlight: **content-manager:** add relationOpenMode setting (modal/page/newTab) (#25433)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (4)

**content-manager:** add relationOpenMode setting (modal/page/newTab) (#25433)
**email-nodemailer:** upgrade to Nodemailer v8 with advanced email features and Admin UI capabilities (#25392)
**i18n:** add missing french translations (#23093)
**upload:** add import from url (#25496)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

typo 'recieved' to 'received' across codebase (#25541)
markdown editor number list is created with wrong numbers (#24631)
add i18n for boolean cell values (#22314)
folder subtitles for folders without assets or subfolders (#22694)
vite and webpack config when linking ds locally (#25530)
**types:** add missing typing for proxy.koa config (#25575)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## 5.38.0 (2026-03-04) ### 🚀 New feature - **content-manager:** add relationOpenMode setting (modal/page/newTab) ([#25433](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25433)) - **email-nodemailer:** upgrade to Nodemailer v8 with advanced email features and Admin UI capabilities ([#25392](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25392)) - **i18n:** add missing french translations ([#23093](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/23093)) ### 🔥 Bug fix - typo 'recieved' to 'received' across codebase ([#25541](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25541)) - markdown editor number list is created with wrong numbers ([#24631](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/24631)) - add i18n for boolean cell values ([#22314](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22314)) - folder subtitles for folders without assets or subfolders ([#22694](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22694)) - vite and webpack config when linking ds locally ([#25530](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25530)) - **types:** add missing typing for proxy.koa config ([#25575](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25575)) ### ⚙️ Chore - bump design-system to v2.2.0 ([#25584](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25584)) - **deps:** bump rollup from 4.27.4 to 4.59.0 ([#25566](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25566)) - **upload:** add import from url ([#25496](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25496)) ### ❤️ Thank You - Adrien L - Altay Akkus - Ayoub Hidri @ayhid - Daniel Garcia @dagadevelop - Grégory Boutte - Jorrit Schippers - markkaylor - mathildeleg @mathildeleg - Schero D. @Schero94 - Tewson Seeoun @tewson

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