Strapi v5.55.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

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✨ Features 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Strapi v5.55.0. Source highlight: **admin:** record token management in audit logs (#27605)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

**admin:** record token management in audit logs (#27605)
**admin:** content type folders (#27419)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

ai endpoints requested when the ai feature is unavailable (#27525)
**admin:** suppress MISSING_TRANSLATION errors to fix sluggish editing (#26108)
**admin:** sso default role placeholder shows "choose here" twice (#27685)
**content-manager:** create on the fly prefills inverse from component paths (#27636)
**content-manager:** saved list sort resets on base-route navigation (#27663)
**core/core:** koa response helper types missing in consumer projects (#27380)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## 5.55.0 (2026-09-23) ### 🚀 New feature - **admin:** record token management in audit logs ([#27605](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27605)) - **admin:** content type folders ([#27419](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27419)) ### 🔥 Bug fix - ai endpoints requested when the ai feature is unavailable ([#27525](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27525)) - **admin:** suppress MISSING_TRANSLATION errors to fix sluggish editing ([#26108](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26108)) - **admin:** sso default role placeholder shows "choose here" twice ([#27685](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27685)) - **content-manager:** create on the fly prefills inverse from component paths ([#27636](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27636)) - **content-manager:** saved list sort resets on base-route navigation ([#27663](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27663)) - **core/core:** koa response helper types missing in consumer projects ([#27380](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27380)) - **database:** updateMany with relation filter subquery ([#26909](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/26909)) - **database:** document-id migration can take hours on large localized tables ([#27404](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27404)) - **database:** updateMany ignores _q and filters ([#27769](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27769)) - **documentation:** restore properties for repeated relation targets ([#27592](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27592)) — **⚠️ Reverted in v5.55.1 (causing a performance drop for Strapi projects with the documentation plugin) — please update your projects to 5.55.1 instead if you're impacted ⚠️** - **graphql:** exclude custom resolvers from built-in query field detection ([#27462](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27462)) - **upload:** store unsigned urls in richtext and blocks fields ([#27593](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27593)) - **upload:** media library degrades for roles without settings.read ([#27687](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27687)) - **upload:** show more media grid columns on wider screens ([#27711](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27711)) - **utils:** normalize string chunks before buffering streams ([#27700](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27700)) ### ⚙️ Chore - **deps:** remove unused dependencies from @strapi/strapi ([#27540](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27540)) - **docker:** postgres dev container fails to start on postgres 18 ([#27668](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27668)) - **upload:** promote the new media library out of future/ ([#27666](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27666)) ### ❤️ Thank You - Adrien L @Adzouz - Akash Dabhi @akash-dabhi-qed - Andrei L @unrevised6419 - Bassel Kanso - Ben Irvin - Christopher Pruijsen @cpruijsen - Constantine @Constantine1916 - Daniel Chicea - Dijedon @dijedontahiri - Giulio Montagner @giu1io - Gonzalo Andres Garcia @gonbaum - Jamie Howard @jhoward1994 - jasleenkaur-qed42 @jasleenkaur-qed42 - mathildeleg @mathildeleg - Nico André - Owen Rossi-Keen @Smoke3785 - Vibhu Gupta @VibhuGupta-dev

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