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You can find our complete Release Notes on GitHub.

Each month, some of the Directus team talk through what’s new including core releases, new content and extensions, plus guests showcasing community highlights.

Watch The Changelog on Directus TV.

March 2026

  • Directus 11.16.0 has some potential breaking changes: existing draft-keyed versions have their display name standardized to "Draft"; @directus/visual-editing must be updated to v2.0.0; requestPasswordReset now returns Forbidden for external auth users.
  • Added global draft versions to content versioning — every versioned item automatically gets a draft with no manual setup required. Stage changes, preview them live, and promote when ready. Learn more about content versioning.
  • The AI Assistant can now process images and PDFs. Upload from your local machine or pull from the Directus File Library. Works across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini.
  • The deployment module is no longer admin-only. Admins can grant specific deployment permissions to roles, letting content teams trigger builds without full admin access. Learn more about deployment permissions.
  • Added provider webhooks for real-time deployment status updates. Vercel and Netlify now push status changes directly to your Directus instance instead of polling, with cryptographic signature verification on both providers.
  • Added a json() function for extracting specific values from JSON columns at the API level, using dot and bracket notation.
  • The Visual Editor now enforces field-level permissions and supports version selection in the live preview pane.

February 2026

  • Directus 11.15.0 has some potential breaking changes: Attached prompts, content items, and visual editor elements to AI Assistant Context.
  • Added a deployment module for triggering deploys in Vercel.
  • Added collaborative editing capability to the studio.
  • Added LLM support for Google and OpenAI compatible providers.
  • Improved the revision review modal to toggle comparing the revision to the previous revision.
  • Added relational field support on x-axis of bar chart in the Insights module.
  • Added visual editor support to the Live Preview panel.

December 2025

  • Directus 11.14.0 has some potential breaking changes: Removed sidebar states from app store.
  • Added support for downloading multiple files and folders.
  • Added AI Assistant.
  • Added the ability to resize and hide both sidebars.
  • Added header interface.

November 2025

  • Directus 11.13.0 has some potential breaking changes: Extensions or external code using RELATIONAL_TYPES should note the excluded presentation and group. Also, fixed <scope>.delete filter hook running after permission check. Keys returned by the hook are now used in place of the original keys.
  • Our Native MCP endpoint is now out of 'beta'.
  • Added Content Comparison Modal for side-by-side review of version and revision changes.
  • Added an onboarding flow to support creating the first Admin user through the studio interface.
  • Improved error reporting for data imports.
  • Added retention indexes for directus_activity and directus_revisions tables to speed up retention cleanup.
  • Added rate limiting options for sending emails.

September 2025

  • Directus 11.12.0 has some potential breaking changes: USER_CREATED, USER_UPDATED, DATE_CREATED, and DATE_UPDATED values in content versioning were fixed. These fields now correctly reflect the actual user and timestamp of creation or last update, rather than the user and date of promotion.
  • Added activity tracking for user suspension due to failed login attempts.
  • Native MCP support was added, providing a built-in MCP server that integrates with your Directus instance from your LLM, while maintaining full compatibility with Directus's existing role-based access control system.
  • Fixed OAuth flow to allow for 2FA setup for users without passwords.

This month we had two releases.

  • Directus 11.11.0 has some potential breaking changes: Content versioning correctly merges relational data and supports all query parameter functionality
  • Fixed 8 issues relating to RTL (right-to-left) support inside the studio.
  • The links in WYSIWYG missing underline and pointer cursor styling were fixed.
  • A new field to conditions for clearing hidden fields on save was added.

August 2025

  • Directus 11.10.0 has some potential breaking changes: TypeScript support for services within the extension context was added.
  • A code tool was added to the WYSIWYG text editor.
  • Added latest material symbols font and optimized icon dropdown rendering
  • Added support for bundling with Rolldown and improved app extensions loading by streaming from disk.

July 2025

  • Directus 11.9.0 has some potential breaking changes: With the added support for LDAP login and enhanced parameter consistency for refresh/logout commands. Allowed overriding the mode in refresh and logout commands to be inline with login. The login method now accepts a payload object instead of separate email and password parameters.
  • In 11.9.0, anonymous project id has been added for improved telemetry.
  • Added "backlink" query parameter to exclude back-relations when expanding queried fields.

June 2025

  • Directus 11.8.0 added a number of smaller improvements and bug fixes including:
    • added the ability to have a toggle variable input for the _in and _nin filters
    • Fixed relation creation to files and added filters to Files and Image interfaces
    • ip, userAgent and origin are now tracked in the activity records for ws activity
  • The Directus MCP Server enables you to easily interact with your Directus data inside your favorite AI tools like Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Raycast.

May 2025

  • Directus 11.7.0 has a potential breaking change: MySQL 5.7 is no longer supported.
  • In 11.7.0 a Schema Builder package was published for mocking database schemas.
  • The Visual Editor has been updated, with improved UX & UI, adding the ability to add a dynamic URL as a route parameter and the ability to display the title of the current page in the URL drop-down and to reflect the URL of the current page as a route parameter of the Visual Editor module.
  • Our revamped SEO Plugin can now analyze your content for keywords to help cover even more SEO use cases.
  • The Super Header Interface adds contextual info, help, and actions right where users need it most - inside the CMS. Updated version includes support for relational fields and translating help content in any language.

April 2025

  • Directus 11.6.0. has a potential breaking change: Fixed filter hook altered payload not passed to action hook on create.
  • In 11.6.0. Visual Editor beta has been released, a module for editing the content of a website directly in place. It comes with a separate package that web developers need to use on a website to make it editable in Visual Editor.
  • Elasticsearch Operation extension integrates Directus content with Elasticsearch.
  • Algolia Operation extension enables using Algolia to index and search your data with Directus Flows. This Operation allows you to create, update, delete and even search records in your index.
  • OpenSearch Operation extension integrates Directus content with OpenSearch.
  • GitHub Operation extension lets Flows trigger GitHub Actions using the repository_dispatch event.

March 2025

  • Directus 11.5.0. has a potential breaking change: Changed error message when a Flow condition operation fails
  • In 11.5.0. partial Prometheus support has been added for your monitoring needs.
  • Field Comments Module allows you to leave comments on individual fields. Once installed and configured, all included fields will show the comment icon next to the field label to identify which fields can accept comments. A badge will appear on this icon when comments have been left for that field.
  • SEO Plugin is a powerful SEO management extension that helps you optimize your content for search engines and social media sharing, right within Directus. It includes a comprehensive interface for managing metadata and a display component for monitoring SEO status.
  • The WYSIWYG (Add/Edit File Link) is an extended WYSIWYG Interface which allows to add links to files.
  • Migration Module enables the migration of a current Directus instance to another location with ease, using this simple module.

February 2025

  • Directus 11.4.1. has added a confirmation prompt to delete buttons and ensured that they behave consistently,
  • In 11.4.1. the translations store is now available to app extension authors, which makes it easier to create multi-language extensions.
  • Directus now supports rendering many-to-any items in related values displays, for example in layouts.
  • The send email operation now supports CC, BCC and Reply To fields, which like everything in Directus Automate can take in dynamic values.
  • YouTube Embed Interface adds a field to your collection for searching and embedding YouTube videos. You can also copy embed codes from the drawer directly, so you can paste them elsewhere.
  • AI Researcher Bundle integrates an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI or Anthropic directly into the Directus editor.
  • Inline Repeater Interface manages repeatable form fields within Directus that allows inline editing and reordering of items.

January 2025

  • In 11.4.0, new versions of Node.js are supported, upgrading our runtime version to Node 22.
  • 11.4.0 added the ability to toggle translation interface items to make them delete-able and while ensuring that defaults, conditions and validations work as expected.
  • Version 11.3.5 and 11.4.0 have introduced a new language — Marathi — which has 100% coverage.
  • In 11.4.0 activity tracking for field deletion was added, increasing visibility into what has changed in your project. You can find the activity log at the bottom of your sidebar on the right-hand side of the Data Studio.
  • In 11.4.0, the latest version of the CLI that ships with the Directus Extensions SDK has a new validate command that performs common checks to determine that your extension will run and has key qualities we look for. You can run it now with npx create-directus-extension validate.
  • A Tree View Table Layout allows you to nest items within a table.
  • Add a Switch Interface which displays a more traditional toggle switch for boolean fields as opposed to the default Toggle interface.
  • The Card Select Interfaces provides selection options for both radio (single select) and checkbox (multiple select) inputs.
  • A Super Header Interface allows you to create rich page headers with titles, subtitles, help information, and interactive actions.

December 2024

  • In Directus 11.2.2, we made S3 connection settings configurable via environment variables. This includes things like connection timeout.
  • In Directus 11.3.0 we introduced new retention settings for activities, revisions, and flow logs. These three system tables can become quite large, and now you can change how long they will be kept for before being pruned.
  • Earlier this year we committed to providing security updates to Directus 10 until the end of the year, make sure you upgrade to 10.13.4 if you’re still on the version 10 family. The same patch has been included in the Directus 11 patch as well.
  • Integrate HubSpot’s API into Directus flows with the HubSpot API Operation.
  • Add a map panel (powered by D3) to your dashboard that displays countries in different colors based on their value using the Choropleth Map Panel.
  • Create an interactive tour for your form from the Tour Group Interface.
  • Integrate Google Maps address autocompletion functionality into the Directus Editor with the Address Completion Interface.

November 2024

  • In Directus 11.1.2, improvements to content versioning and new comment endpoints have been made.
    • For improvements to content versioning, internally, we stored every change to a content version separately in the directus_revisions collection, and then merged them together when promoting a version. In this release, we’ve added a new delta field to the directus_versions collection that combines all revisions into a single field. This means you can prune directus_revisions without compromising your content versions.
    • We've introduced a dedicated directus_comments collection, replacing the previous system that used directus_activity for comments. While new comment endpoints have been added, existing endpoints remain functional. Comment primary keys are now UUIDs instead of numeric values, which may impact custom type checking implementations. The SDK's internal comment endpoints have been updated to reflect this change. To avoid errors, ensure your Directus version is compatible with the latest SDK when using comment functions.
  • In Directus 11.2.0, TUS (resumable uploads) now added to Supabase, Azure, Cloudinary, and GCS storage adapters to join AWS and Local Adapters released in 10.13.0.
  • The AI Web Scraper allows you to scrape web pages and receive structured data back using Firecrawl's web scraping API to extract data from websites.
  • The AI Writer has been extended to include the option to use multiple AI providers as well as different models.
  • The Tree Map Chart presents a cluster or boxes where the size of each box represent the value. You can also group data into categories which are presented in different colors.
  • The Funnel Chart presents a list of numbers in an ascending or descending funnel chart.
  • The Scatter Plot Chart is a 2-axis chart where values are plotted as dots. You can optionally add axis labels and hover over any of the dots to see the values.
  • The Timeline Chart presents a series of tasks or events with a start and end date on a graph. You can also group data into categories on the y axis and seperate tasks into different colors.
  • The Customizable Tabular Layout Boilerplate give extension authors the ability to use it as a base for their customizations.

October 2024

  • In Directus 11.1.1, a number of bug fixes and optimizations were included. We’ve also removed the dedicated SendGrid email transport and you should replace it with SMTP.
  • Directus Cloud Templates for website CMS, CRM and eCommerce projects are available to use within Directus Cloud. The templates enable you to have the data models, permissions and flows pre-configured to get started quicker. You can select a template when creating a new project on Directus Cloud.
  • The Gantt Chart Layout displays items in a collection in a gantt chart, helping those of you who use Directus for project management and task management. You can specify a label that you want displayed on each task, a start date and an end date and optionally, a dependency field which will draw dependency lines in a chart, and also specify the zoom in as granular as an hour and as broad as a year.
  • The Calculated Field Interface allows you to write a formula and the value of the interface will be automatically computed and shown. It supports the full set of functions provided by Formula.js, and a majority of JavaScript operators that work for numbers and strings. It also supports relational fields and we parse formulas to ensure they are only running allowed functions which is important for security. Important to note, values here are only visible in the interface and not in API responses.
  • The API Metric Panel can be used to display a value from an external API. For example, the number of docker downloads or sales or followers on social media platforms. You can make a web request to get your preferred metrics, you can also provide custom headers or a request body if required, then specify the path of the value you want to display.

September 2024

  • Directus 11.1.0, you can now stream system logs inside of the Directus Data Studio to have greater visibility and debug problems. You can filter by log level or node in a multi-node deployment.
  • We added support for listening on a Unix socket path as opposed to host and port.
  • You can now customize the invite link expiry time.
  • Indices are now supported through the new is_indexed field, which means you don’t have to do this directly in your database anymore.
  • Using the LiquidJS template operation enables dynamically-generated content creation, perfect for creating personalized emails or any scenario where you need to combine data with templates within a flow.
  • Resend email operation integrates Resend's powerful email API into your Directus flows.
  • The Table in Insight Panel facilitates output data from across multiple tables, if you click an item, it'll open a Directus Editor draw.
  • Plausible Analytics Bundle embeds your Plausible dashboard right within your Directus Insights dashboard or your content editor.
  • The Flow Trigger Bundle allows you to run manually-triggered flows from right within a dashboard or within your content editor.
  • List interface enables the easy creation and management of simple lists with full keyboard support.
  • A global command palette extension is now available - giving you CMD/Ctrl+K across Directus. Navigate the Data Studio, run flows, and copy API endpoints from anywhere.
  • WYSIWYG & Block Editor Boilerplates give extension authors the ability to use them as a base for their customizations.

August 2024