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publicationState is removed and replaced by status

In Strapi 5, the Draft & Publish feature has been reworked, and the Content API, including REST API, GraphQL API, and Document Service API accept a new status parameter.

This page is part of the breaking changes database and provides information about the breaking change and additional instructions to migrate from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5.

🔌 Is this breaking change affecting plugins?Yes
🤖 Is this breaking change automatically handled by a codemod?Yes

Breaking change description​

In Strapi v4

publicationState is used and accepts the following values:

  • live returns only published entries,
  • preview returns both draft entries & published entries.

In Strapi 5

status is used and accepts the following values:

  • draft returns the draft version of a document,
  • published returns the published version of a document.

Migration​

This section regroups useful notes and procedures about the introduced breaking change.

Notes​

There are no fallbacks to return by default the published version, and return the draft version if no published version is found.

Migration procedure​

  • API calls initiated from the front end (REST API, GraphQL API) that used publicationState need to be manually updated.
  • If publicationState is used in your custom back-end code with the Entity Service API in Strapi v4, a codemod will automatically handle the change for Strapi 5 (see Entity Service to Document Service migration reference for additional details).