Additional resources for upgrading to Strapi 5
The following pages cover some dedicated topics for specific use cases when upgrading to Strapi 5. Please ensure you have read the introduction to upgrading to Strapi 5 and step-by-step guide before moving forward.
It is strongly advised not to upgrade a critical or production-ready project from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5.
The content of migration resources might not be final yet. Migration resources are currently only provided to prepare you for the upgrade to Strapi 5 when it is released as a stable version.
Strapi 5 is currently only provided as a Release Candidate (RC) version and is not meant to be used in production yet.
📦 Entity Service API to Document Service API migration reference
Learn how to transition from the Entity Service API of Strapi v4, deprecated in Strapi 5, to the new Document Service API.
🧩 Plugins upgrade summary
Find resources and answers to your questions on how to upgrade your plugins to Strapi 5.
💁 Helper-plugin deprecation reference
Learn how to develop plugins without the Strapi v4 helper-plugin, removed from Strapi 5.