Strapi v5.40.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

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⚡ Improvements 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Strapi v5.40.0. Source highlight: add package manager dropdown before version in bug report template (#25679)

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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (2)

resolved filter editability on clicking filter tag (#24057)
**core:** remove beta on Document API, enforce deprecation on EntityService API (#25744)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

add package manager dropdown before version in bug report template (#25679)
add maxwidth to documentactions menu (#25664)
formatErrorMessages array values formatting (#24196)
**admin:** alias singleton frontend deps in vite (#25682)
**content-manager:** reduce excessive rerendering in components and dynamic zones (#25631)
**content-manager:** skip non-draftAndPublish relations in countDraftRelations (#25453)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## 5.40.0 (2026-03-18) ### 🚀 New feature - add package manager dropdown before version in bug report template ([#25679](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25679)) ### 🔥 Bug fix - add maxwidth to documentactions menu ([#25664](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25664)) - formatErrorMessages array values formatting ([#24196](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/24196)) - **admin:** alias singleton frontend deps in vite ([#25682](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25682)) - **content-manager:** reduce excessive rerendering in components and dynamic zones ([#25631](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25631)) - **content-manager:** skip non-draftAndPublish relations in countDraftRelations ([#25453](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25453)) - **i18n:** show locale key in disabled select when editing locale ([#25124](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25124)) ### 📚 Documentation Changes - fix docs links in README ([#25715](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25715)) ### ⚙️ Chore - use https instead of git url in package.repository.url ([#25698](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25698)) - **content-manager:** optimize relations handling in EditView component ([#25683](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25683)) - **core:** parallelize and cache dynamic zone populate ([#25685](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25685)) ### 💅 Enhancement - resolved filter editability on clicking filter tag ([#24057](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/24057)) - **core:** remove beta on Document API, enforce deprecation on EntityService API ([#25744](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25744)) ### ❤️ Thank You - akash-dabhi-qed @akash-dabhi-qed - Andrea Cappuccio @hood - Bassel Kanso @Bassel17 - calm @calm329 - Jamie Howard @jhoward1994 - markkaylor - mathildeleg @mathildeleg - Nico André - Nikolas Rimikis @Leptopoda - Pierre Wizla - Varun Chawla @veeceey

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