Impact Score: 5/10
Strapi v5.46.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v5.46.1. Source highlight: FK violation publishing self-relation parent & child in one release (#26147)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- FK violation publishing self-relation parent & child in one release (#26147)
- move session-manager jwt check from register to bootstrap (#25412)
- **admin:** remove year 2041 limit on date/datetime pickers (#26209)
- **content-manager:** fix getMainField context for component list/edit configure views (#25509, #26124)
- **database:** respect nested sort in populate for join-table relations (#26361)
- **graphql:** inherit publication state for i18n localizations (#22163)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## 5.46.1 (2026-05-20)
### 🔥 Bug fix
- FK violation publishing self-relation parent & child in one release ([#26147](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26147))
- move session-manager jwt check from register to bootstrap ([#25412](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25412))
- **admin:** remove year 2041 limit on date/datetime pickers ([#26209](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26209))
- **content-manager:** fix getMainField context for component list/edit configure views ([#25509](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25509), [#26124](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26124))
- **database:** respect nested sort in populate for join-table relations ([#26361](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26361))
- **graphql:** inherit publication state for i18n localizations ([#22163](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22163))
- **migrations:** guard inverseJoinColumn access in discard-drafts migration ([#26331](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26331))
- **review-workflows:** add assignee and review stage to list view filters ([#26171](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26171))
- **review-workflows:** message when single stage ([#26229](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26229))
- **upgrade:** use pnpm install when project prefers pnpm ([#26246](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26246))
- **upgrade:** align scoped @strapi packages in devDependencies ([#26248](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26248))
### ⚙️ Chore
- sonarcloud security review ([#25949](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/25949))
- **deps:** bump ip-address from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0 ([#26222](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26222))
- **deps:** bump @protobufjs/utf8 from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 ([#26311](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26311))
- **deps:** bump axios from 1.15.1 to 1.15.2 ([#26177](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26177))
- **deps:** bump fast-xml-builder from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0 ([#26253](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26253))
- **deps:** bump fast-uri from 3.0.1 to 3.1.2 ([#26254](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26254))
- **eslint:** migrate .eslintrc + .eslintignore to .eslintrc.cjs ([#26216](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26216))
### 🚨 Security
- **deps:** upgrade multiple dependencies ([#26326](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26326))
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