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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 value set to a date.

This page is part of the breaking changes database and provides information about the breaking change and additional instructions to migrate from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5.

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​

This section regroups useful notes and procedures about the introduced breaking change.

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.