import Intro from '/docs/snippets/breaking-change-page-intro.md'
import MigrationIntro from '/docs/snippets/breaking-change-page-migration-intro.md'

Content types with Draft & Publish disabled always have the publishedAt value set to a date#

In Strapi 5, content-types with Draft & Publish disabled always have the publishedAt attribute set to a date, whereas in v4 the attribute did not exist.

In Strapi 5, content-types with Draft & Publish disabled always have the publishedAt value set to a date.

Breaking change description#

In Strapi v4

In Strapi v4, a content-type with Draft & Publish disabled does not even have a publishedAt attribute.

In Strapi 5

In Strapi 5, the publishedAt attribute always exist even if Draft & Publish is disabled for a content-types.

Migration#

Notes#

• If Draft & Publish is enabled, publishedAt is:
  • null for drafts versions of documents
  • and set to the publication date for published versions of documents.
• If Draft & Publish is disabled, publishedAt is set to the latest creation or edition date of the document.