Strapi v5.8.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

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⚡ Improvements 1 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Strapi v5.8.0. Source highlight: handle clearing of number field to send null instead of undefined (#22537)

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⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)

apollo landing page config (#22285)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

handle clearing of number field to send null instead of undefined (#22537)
add missing `name` to `ColorPickerInput` (#21976)
missing hover pointer in bottom of ctb menu add another field to this collection type (#22393)
changed active state background color (#22545)
add missing borders to widgets (#22612)
scripts-front version number (d7f6a8b2b6)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## 5.8.0 (2025-01-15) ### 🔥 Bug fix - handle clearing of number field to send null instead of undefined ([#22537](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22537)) - add missing `name` to `ColorPickerInput` ([#21976](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/21976)) - missing hover pointer in bottom of ctb menu add another field to this collection type ([#22393](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22393)) - changed active state background color ([#22545](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22545)) - add missing borders to widgets ([#22612](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22612)) - scripts-front version number ([d7f6a8b2b6](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/d7f6a8b2b6)) - **database:** only drop indexes that exist; do not drop on create ([#22633](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22633)) - **history:** handle nested component images ([#22278](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22278)) ### ⚙️ Chore - fix version numbers ([27928ae50a](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/27928ae50a)) - **deps:** bump path-to-regexp in the npm_and_yarn group ([affd279425](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/commit/affd279425)) - **docs:** document traverseEntity util ([#22573](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22573)) - **tests:** enable and update relations ordering test ([#22574](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22574)) ### 💅 Enhancement - apollo landing page config ([#22285](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/22285)) ### ❤️ Thank You - Ben Irvin - Dhruv Maradiya @Dhruv-Maradiya - Kaio Duarte @kaioduarte - Lucas Boilly @lucasboilly - markkaylor - Prafull Pandey @pandeyprafull - Rémi de Juvigny

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