Strapi v4 to v5 breaking changes

🚧 Work in progress

This page is a work-in-progress and the list of breaking changes will grow over time.

This page is part of the Strapi v4 to v5 migration and lists all the breaking changes introduced in Strapi v5.

Content API

The following changes affect the Content API of your Strapi application:

Schemas

The following changes affect the schema.json file of your content-types:

• Draft & Publish is always enabled

Database

The following changes affect the databases interacting with your Strapi application:

• MySQL v5 is not supported anymore
• Database identifiers can't be longer than 53 characters

Strapi objects and methods

• strapi.fetch uses the native fetch() API