# Strapi v5.52.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Strapi (https://strapi.io)
- **Version:** v5.52.0
- **Released:** Aug 12, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/strapi/updates/v5.52.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Strapi v5.52.0. Source highlight: record MCP actions in audit logs (#27151)

## New Features
- record MCP actions in audit logs (#27151)
- **i18n:** add locale codes for Corsican (#27099)
- **server:** enhance Koa app configuration with proxy settings (#26409)
- **tooling:** add admin translation verification (#26960)

## Improvements
- **utils:** memoize private attributes in sanitizeOutput (#27140)
- **utils:** stop using a thrown Error to test for boolean-like populate keys (#27234)
- **utils:** memoize scope decisions and keep the relation visitor sync (#27145)

## Bug Fixes
- typescript pipeline issue (99a723d024)
- **admin:** dedupe react-dnd in the admin bundle (#27217)
- **admin:** address filter entries by position so duplicate filter chips behave (#27188)
- **content-manager:** merge query populate paths to preserve nested populate (#27236)
- **content-type-builder:** editing relations removes inverse field conditions (#27226)
- **content-type-builder:** clear stale validation errors when the form data is replaced (#27222)