payload Releases

Primarily a bug fix release addressing issues with the Payload CLI failing on Node v23.5+, fixing duplicate IDs in MongoDB nested queries, and resolving security vulnerabilities. It also includes improvements to the Cloud Storage plugin and various UI refinements regarding draft handling and row fields.

Jul 1, 2026

This release introduces performance monitoring infrastructure and fixes critical reliability issues in the Rust volume server, particularly regarding tier-down safety and EC shard recovery.

Jun 29, 2026

A major feature release focusing on S3 API compliance and Iceberg table format support, alongside critical security hardening and stability improvements for FUSE mounts and PostgreSQL integrations.

Jun 25, 2026

This release focuses on network reliability and performance, introducing advanced load balancing strategies, HTTP/2 pooling, and enhanced TLS security features.

Jun 24, 2026

This release enhances observability, metering, and integration capabilities, introducing support for new platforms and significant data integrity improvements for sync jobs.

Jun 23, 2026

This release focuses on FUSE performance improvements, mount stability fixes, and adds Prometheus metrics for replication and volume operations. It also includes Kafka topic handling improvements and S3 API enhancements.

Jun 22, 2026

This update brings a significant webapp redesign, improves telemetry and metering capabilities, and fixes various provider integrations and security vulnerabilities.

Jun 19, 2026

A maintenance release focused on bug fixes, performance improvements, and documentation updates for Payload CMS v3.85.x, addressing issues with uploads, TypeScript compatibility, and UI rendering.

Jun 9, 2026

This release marks the plugin-import-export as out of beta and adds collection-level and field-level hooks, alongside fixes for rich text editing and cloud storage.

May 26, 2026

Focuses on usability enhancements including a validation tool, device handling improvements, streaming performance gains, and security hardening for LoRA loading.

May 11, 2026

A bug fix release addressing JSONPath support for underscores in member names.

Apr 29, 2026

A major version update introducing a new JSONPath module compliant with RFC 9535, removing deprecated CLI options, and updating cookie storage mechanisms.

Apr 27, 2026

A minor patch release primarily addressing CI configuration to ensure create-payload-app correctly targets the 3.x branch.

Apr 23, 2026

v3.84.0 introduces client components as custom views, email recipient overrides, locale-aware currency formatting, and multi-part upload support.

Apr 22, 2026

A significant feature release introducing an expanded plugin API with execution ordering, profiling utilities, UUIDv7 support, and a view override system for rich text.

Apr 15, 2026

This patch release focuses on bug fixes for Next.js turbo server fast refresh configuration, nested docs breadcrumbs, and S3 performance optimization. It also includes documentation corrections and template updates.

Apr 9, 2026

This release introduces media file disambiguation via query parameters, a TypeScript post-process hook for type generation, and updates to plugin translations. It also fixes several bugs in Next.js, storage adapters, and the UI.

Apr 8, 2026

A minor bug fix release with unspecified changes.

Apr 8, 2026

Removed the auto-trim feature for reference audio files.

Apr 8, 2026

This major version release includes various improvements to the training code, such as optimizing dataset calculations and fixing parameter passing errors in LoRA/finetune tests. It also adds new dependencies like torchcodec and improves CLI argument validation and debug output handling.

Apr 6, 2026