Strapi v5 brings significant changes related to content versioning, API response formats, and the Plugins SDK. This post details our experience with upgrading a specific Strapi setup from v4 to v5. This includes the changes we found easy to upgrade, the aspects we found complicated and the effort it took us to execute the over-all upgrade.

Strapi v4's track record with respect to version upgrades has been patchy. This post details such experiences & my attempts to overcome issues to enable more confident Strapi version upgrades.

This post compares Directus and Strapi with respect to the various headless CMS features like customizing the CRUD APIs, content versioning, access control and internationalization.

Because Strapi v4 is a major release with a large number of breaking changes, migrating a Strapi setup from v3 => v4 can be complicated. This post details how we undertook the v3 => v4 migration with a two-fold goal of upgrading without any functional / data regression in the smallest possible downtime window.