@payloadcms/plugin-search 4.0.0-beta.2

v4.0.0-beta.2

on Node.js NPM

v4.0.0-beta.2 (2026-10-16)

🚀 Features

• tanstack-start: update to stable TanStack Start (#18700) (32c06ff)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• show file sizes with one decimal by default (#18683) (81d3070)
• prevent duplicate hierarchy fields when collection config is reloaded (#18710) (3da270a)
• email-nodemailer: upgrade to nodemailer 10 to resolve security advisories (#18737) (50295c7)
• richtext-lexical: hide placeholders in read-only editors (#18740) (81e7e15)
• tanstack-start: support custom API routes (#18590) (1839216)
• ui: hide LLM instructions from document pickers and dashboard (#18741) (f177a26)
• ui: rename edit LLM instructions action to edit agent instructions (#18739) (2cb9aae)

⚡ Performance

• ui: build the client field schema map in linear time for rich text fields (#18698) (91bbccc)

📚 Documentation

• clarify generated index versioning policy (#18734) (92e5757)
• add TanStack Start documentation (#17226) (1d1ec1a)
• fix broken internal links and anchors (#18661) (d32259e)
• clarify framework dependency versioning policy (#18704) (a10826d)
• plugin-search: document field access responsibilities (#18711) (b9500cc)

🧪 Tests

• improve PR demo recording and annotations (#18692) (0e21f2c)

📝 Templates

• bump Next.js and React versions (#18751) (2b3d9ca)

⚙️ CI

• label PRs targeting 3.x with v3 (#18744) (f92b79b)
• tag v4-only packages with latest on beta publish (#18688) (e8cc755)
• use ubuntu-26.04 runners (#18714) (0f60028)

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES

• show file sizes with one decimal by default (#18683) (81d3070)

• email-nodemailer: upgrade to nodemailer 10 to resolve security advisories (#18737) (50295c7)

  If you pass your own transport created with nodemailer 9, upgrade
  nodemailer to ^10 and remove @types/nodemailer. A transport typed
  by @types/nodemailer no longer type-checks against the adapter.
  Runtime behavior does not change.

• tanstack-start: update to stable TanStack Start (#18700) (32c06ff)

  Updates @tanstack/react-start to ^1.169.1 and
  @tanstack/react-router to ^1.170.44 across the adapter, blank
  template, test app, and lockfile.

🤝 Contributors

• Alessio Gravili (@AlessioGr)
• Jarrod Flesch (@JarrodMFlesch)
• Elliot DeNolf (@denolfe)
• Dan Ribbens (@DanRibbens)
• Nate Lentz (@nathanlentz)
• Jake Fletcher (@jacobsfletch)
• Sasha (@r1tsuu)
• Satvik Mishra (@SatvikMishra08)