What's new in Strapi 5 docs?
Strapi 5 brings many new features and improvements, and this page quickly highlights the most important documentation changes.
🧑🎨 The Draft & Publish feature has been fully reworked. When Draft & Publish is enabled, the Content Manager edit view shows 2 different tabs, one for the draft version and one for the published version, and both can handle different content.
🧙♀️ The new Content History feature allows you to view and restore previous versions of your content from the Content Manager.
🧑🏫 Strapi 5 now use documents and introduces a new Document Service API to replace the Entity Service API from v4, leveraging the new Draft & Publish system and paving the way for more upcoming features.
🕵️ The REST API and GraphQL API have been updated, with a simplified response data format for both and partial support for Relay-style queries for GraphQL.
👩🚀 The Plugin SDK is a new CLI tool that helps you develop and publish Strapi plugins.
🦾 Another whole new CLI upgrade tool will help you migrate to any patch, minor, and major version of Strapi, automating most of the common tasks through codemods.
👷 Also, we have some resources ready to help you upgrade to Strapi 5, including a step-by-step guide, a list of breaking changes and specific resources to read for when you will consider upgrading to Strapi 5.