Strapi v5.42.0 — 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 v5.42.0. Source highlight: removing A/B testing from the prompt Currently A/B testing opt-in isn't used, so removing it from the CLI (8d5b04ece4)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (4)

removing A/B testing from the prompt Currently A/B testing opt-in isn't used, so removing it from the CLI (8d5b04ece4)
changing sonar variable (0d822ade04)
**data-transfer:** add directory export/import format (#25867)
add .claude directory to gitignore (e85aa81cdf)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

change return to continue in deleteRelations when using foreign keys (#25857)
hide legacy options (da9cdfc640)
contains filter no longer returns empty data (#25810)
typos in documentation plugin README (4ff54bff36)
**admin:** p is not function error (#25663)
**content-manager:** pass component schemas when rebuilding list view headers (#25872)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## 5.42.0 (2026-04-08) ### 🚀 New feature - removing A/B testing from the prompt Currently A/B testing opt-in isn't used, so removing it from the CLI ([8d5b04ece4](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/8d5b04ece4)) - changing sonar variable ([0d822ade04](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/0d822ade04)) - **data-transfer:** add directory export/import format ([#25867](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25867)) ### 🔥 Bug fix - change return to continue in deleteRelations when using foreign keys ([#25857](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25857)) - hide legacy options ([da9cdfc640](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/da9cdfc640)) - contains filter no longer returns empty data ([#25810](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25810)) - typos in documentation plugin README ([4ff54bff36](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/4ff54bff36)) - **admin:** p is not function error ([#25663](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25663)) - **content-manager:** pass component schemas when rebuilding list view headers ([#25872](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25872)) - **content-manager:** wrap single type displayName with formatMessage ([#25880](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25880)) - **core:** relation handling preserves order during unpublish/republish cycles ([#25764](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25764)) - **create-strapi-app:** generate .yarnrc.yml for Yarn projects ([#25869](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25869)) - **documentation:** use dist extensions path in production ([#25863](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25863)) ### 📚 Documentation Changes - fix typos in documentation plugin README ([8e11e41247](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/8e11e41247)) ### ⚙️ Chore - add .claude directory to gitignore ([e85aa81cdf](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/e85aa81cdf)) - sonarqube variables like in their docs ([40f9ecd6c7](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/40f9ecd6c7)) - **deps:** bump minimatch from 10.2.4 to 10.2.5 ([#25879](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25879)) - **deps:** bump @xmldom/xmldom from 0.8.6 to 0.8.12 ([#25877](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25877)) - **deps:** bump path-to-regexp from 8.2.0 to 8.4.0 ([#25850](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25850)) - **deps:** bump undici from 6.24.0 to 6.24.1 ([#25785](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25785)) - **deps:** bump handlebars from 4.7.7 to 4.7.9 ([#25841](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25841)) - **deps:** bump yauzl from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 ([#25729](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25729)) - **deps:** bump bn.js from 4.12.0 to 4.12.3 ([#25691](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25691)) - **deps:** bump js-yaml from 3.14.1 to 3.14.2 ([#25680](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25680)) - **deps:** bump mdast-util-to-hast from 13.2.0 to 13.2.1 ([#25681](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25681)) - **deps:** bump path-to-regexp from 8.4.0 to 8.4.1 ([#25888](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25888)) - **deps:** bump simple-git from 3.21.0 to 3.32.3 ([#25704](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25704)) - **deps:** bump file-type from 21.0.0 to 21.3.2 ([#25728](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25728)) - **deps:** bump @octokit/plugin-paginate-rest from 9.2.1 to 9.2.2 ([#25693](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25693)) - **deps:** bump @octokit/request from 8.4.0 to 8.4.1 ([#25694](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25694)) - **deps:** bump picomatch from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 ([#25828](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25828)) - **deps:** bump nodemailer from 8.0.1 to 8.0.4 ([#25848](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25848)) ### ❤️ Thank You - Adrien L @Adzouz - Adrien Lepoutre @Adzouz - Alexandre BODIN - Bassel Kanso @Bassel17 - Ben Irvin - guoyangzhen - Jamie Howard @jhoward1994 - Joshua Klinesmith - Simon Norris

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