5.53.0 (2026-09-09)

🚀 New feature

• Add an export audit logs button (#27427)
• content-releases: record release actions in audit logs (#27436, #27436)

🔥 Bug fix

• close the drawer on click on interactive elements (4573d58806)
• transfer configuration import discards the error that caused it (#27565)
• misc users-permissions and admin (2f3595fe61)
• content-type-builder: default new private fields to not searchable (#27482)
• email-sendmail: disable file and URL access for attachments (#27430)
• mcp: bump mcp sdk@2 to stop clients droping advertised tools (#27505)
• strapi: --sourcemap flag has no effect on the admin build (#27545)
• upload: reserve list space for the bulk actions bar (#27509)
• upload: filter the row replace picker by the asset's mime (#27508)
• upload: bound the focal point fields to the crop area (#27496)
• upload: folder navigation resets media library list scroll and p… (#27449)
• upload: keep the drawer open when a control behind is pressed (3ebdde0965)
• upload: only a primary-button press dismisses the drawer (3b81103657)
• upload: contain fast provider rejections in upload batches (#27543)

⚙️ Chore

• release v5.52.3 update develop (2695ff53ff)
• .github/draft-release: run the workflow more than once per release (#27573)
• ci: pin all GitHub Actions to latest versions by commit SHA (37d9438606)
• ci: add the draft-release action and workflow (#27562)
• deps: bump undici from 6.28.0 to 6.28.1 (#27568)
• lint: make oxlint a blocking ci gate (#27450)

⚠️ Changes to be aware of

MCP clients no longer drop advertised tools

The built-in MCP server now advertises tools as JSON Schema 2020-12, so strict clients that previously dropped every tool keep the full list. If you register custom MCP tools or prompts: unknown or unauthorized tool calls now return JSON-RPC error -32602 instead of isError: true; extra.sendNotification and extra.sendRequest are gone; and one prompt argsSchema that cannot become JSON Schema (for example z.date()) hides every prompt from prompts/list.

(#27505)

❤️ Thank You

• Adrien L @Adzouz
• Adrien Lepoutre @Adzouz
• Andrei L @unrevised6419
• Arthur Moreau
• Bassel Kanso
• Gonzalo Andres Garcia @gonbaum
• Jamie Howard @jhoward1994
• Jan Kahmen @kah-ja
• Moutaz-homsi
• Nico André
• Simon Norris