payloadcms/payload v4.0.0-beta.9 on GitHub

v4.0.0-beta.9 (2026-11-13)

read the saved crop and focal point from _transforms (#19547) (ae5e1dc)
add label, type and details to sessions (#19492) (b3c508f)
serve historical upload variants and replay transforms on restore (#19474) (af30c3e)
ui: export standalone CSS tokens (#19472) (fd82d9d)

respect custom admin routes during upgrades through CPA (#19484) (f2f8ee5)
bump minimum node version to 24.22.3 (#19555) (94372c8)
preserve transaction failures and clean up sessions (#19159) (397fa9c)
pass the request to db.findOne in findByID (#19488) (7a80820)
deps: bump the non-major group with 1 updates (#19500) (90b4962)
drizzle: limit atomic updates with a locking subquery (#19214) (a5c71f3)
ui: await persistence of merged preference writes (#19157) (7fdf644)

allow ubuntu-26.04 runner label in actionlint (#19546) (6251cee)
use the breaking changes section of PR bodies in release notes (#19554) (0ec1c0f)

bump minimum node version to 24.22.3 (#19555) (94372c8)
Applications on Node.js 24.x before 24.22.3, on Node.js 25.x, or
on Node.js 26.x before 26.13.1 must upgrade their local, CI, and
deployment runtimes. The supported range is now ^24.22.3 || >=26.13.1.
```
 "engines": {
-  "node": ">=24.22.1"
+  "node": "^24.22.3 || >=26.13.1"
 }
```
add label, type and details to sessions (#19492) (b3c508f)
On SQL adapters, this adds three columns to each <collection>_sessions
table, so existing projects need a database migration. In development
the schema is pushed automatically; in production, run payload migrate:create and then payload migrate. MongoDB needs no migration.
This is in the v4 migration guide under "Sessions say what they are".