v5.52.3

## 5.52.3 (2026-09-02)

### 🔥 Bug fix

- **admin:** preserve special characters in filter and search values ([#27440](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27440))
- **content-manager:** relation picker loses locale in nested entries ([#27487](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27487))
- **content-manager:** relation fields display document ids when main fields are empty ([#27488](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27488))
- **content-type-builder:** remove unused runtime import of @strapi/types ([#27452](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27452))
- **review-workflows:** guard release-action service call when cms-content-releases is disabled ([#27312](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27312))
- **upload:** sniff file bytes in admin when browser MIME is generic ([#27363](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27363))
- **upload:** show each asset as soon as its upload completes ([#27456](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27456))
- **upload:** various fixes and adjustments of new media library ([#27477](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27477))
- **upload:** repair the typecheck on develop after two merges collided ([#27497](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27497))
- **upload:** disable the folder tree chevron when a folder has no children ([#27495](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27495))
- **upload:** keep the asset name when replacing its file ([#27501](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27501))
- **users-permissions,core:** use path.posix.normalize for route matching and path sanitization ([#27158](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27158))

### ⚙️ Chore

- **strapi:** remove unused nodemon dependencies ([#27479](https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/27479))

### ❤️ Thank You

- Adrien L @Adzouz
- Andrei L @unrevised6419
- Bassel Kanso
- Ben Irvin
- Kushal Rathod @KushalXCoder
- Lovepreet Singh @singhlovepreet9
- Nico André
- Valentin @valfur03