CrafterCMS Version 4.5.1

Released June 18, 2026

Important

Please see Upgrade Notes for CrafterCMS 4.5.1 for an important note and Breaking changes for breaking changes and other things to consider before upgrading

For instructions on how to update your CrafterCMS install, please see Upgrading CrafterCMS

New Features

• New Studio, Engine, and Deployer monitoring APIs for retrieving system information

Enhancements

• Improved Studio startup time

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with the context rebuild failing after trying to get a content item during init

• Fixed issue with Transcode Video form in dark mode

• Fixed issue with incorrect internal-name field extracted on save when embedded content data source is used

• Fixed issue with indexing components outside of /site/components

• Fixed issue with modeling tool for content type name

• Fixed issue with remote_repository table columns width

• Fixed issue with JavaScript that contains JSON with escaped quotes and double quotes

• Fixed issue with the publisher when it tries to publish a blob file in S3 that doesn’t exist

• Fixed issue with misconfigured blob store error message

• Fixed intermittent Maven Grab issue

• Fixed issue with git cleanup at startup when git status times out

Dependency Updates

• Noteworthy dependency updates:

  • Spring security to version 6.5.11

  • Spring core to version 6.2.19

  • Spring boot to version 3.5.14

  • Tomcat to version 11.0.20

  • OpenSearch to version 3.6

  • AWS SDK to version 2.46.10

  • Tika to version 3.3.1

  • Apache Log4j to version 2.26.0

  • BouncyCastle to version 1.84

  • Netty to version 4.2.12.final

  • Handlebars to version 4.6.0

  • Groovy to version 5

For a complete list of community tickets, please visit: GitHub 4.5.1

For information on upgrading 3.1.x sites, see here

---