## Why this exists
Lexical in Payload is a React Server Component (RSC). Historically that
created three headaches:
1. You couldn’t render the editor directly from the client.
2. Features like blocks, tables, upload and link drawers require the
server to know the shape of nested sub‑fields at render time. If you
tried to render on demand, the server didn’t know those schemas.
3. The rich text field is designed to live inside a Form. For simple use
cases, setting up a full form just to manage editor state was
cumbersome.
## What’s new
We now ship a client component, `<RenderLexical />`, that renders a
Lexical editor **on demand** while still covering the full feature set.
On mount, it calls a server action to render the editor on the server
using the new `render-field` server action. That server render gives
Lexical everything it needs (including nested field schemas) and returns
a ready‑to‑hydrate editor.
## Example - Rendering in custom component within existing Form
```tsx
'use client'
import type { JSONFieldClientComponent } from 'payload'
import { buildEditorState, RenderLexical } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client'
import { lexicalFullyFeaturedSlug } from '../../slugs.js'
export const Component: JSONFieldClientComponent = (args) => {
return (
<div>
Fully-Featured Component:
<RenderLexical
field={{ name: 'json' }}
initialValue={buildEditorState({ text: 'defaultValue' })}
schemaPath={`collection.${lexicalFullyFeaturedSlug}.richText`}
/>
</div>
)
}
```
## Example - Rendering outside of Form, manually managing richText
values
```ts
'use client'
import type { DefaultTypedEditorState } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
import type { JSONFieldClientComponent } from 'payload'
import { buildEditorState, RenderLexical } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client'
import React, { useState } from 'react'
import { lexicalFullyFeaturedSlug } from '../../slugs.js'
export const Component: JSONFieldClientComponent = (args) => {
const [value, setValue] = useState<DefaultTypedEditorState | undefined>(() =>
buildEditorState({ text: 'state default' }),
)
const handleReset = React.useCallback(() => {
setValue(buildEditorState({ text: 'state default' }))
}, [])
return (
<div>
Default Component:
<RenderLexical
field={{ name: 'json' }}
initialValue={buildEditorState({ text: 'defaultValue' })}
schemaPath={`collection.${lexicalFullyFeaturedSlug}.richText`}
setValue={setValue as any}
value={value}
/>
<button onClick={handleReset} style={{ marginTop: 8 }} type="button">
Reset Editor State
</button>
</div>
)
}
```
## How it works (under the hood)
- On first render, `<RenderLexical />` calls the server function
`render-field` (wired into @payloadcms/next), passing a schemaPath.
- The server loads the exact field config and its client schema map for
that path, renders the Lexical editor server‑side (so nested features
like blocks/tables/relationships are fully known), and returns the
component tree.
- While waiting, the client shows a small shimmer skeleton.
- Inside Forms, RenderLexical plugs into the parent form via useField;
outside Forms, you can fully control the value by passing
value/setValue.
## Type Improvements
While implementing the `buildEditorState` helper function for our test
suite, I noticed some issues with our `TypedEditorState` type:
- nodes were no longer narrowed by their node.type types
- upon fixing this issue, the type was no longer compatible with the
generated types. To address this, I had to weaken the generated type a
bit.
In order to ensure the type will keep functioning as intended from now
on, this PR also adds some type tests
---
- To see the specific tasks where the Asana app for GitHub is being
used, see below:
- https://app.asana.com/0/0/1211110462564644
When sending REST API requests with multipart/form-data, e.g. PATCH or
POST within the admin panel, a request body larger than 1MB throws the
following error:
```
Unterminated string in JSON at position...
```
This is because there are sensible defaults imposed by the HTML form
data parser (currently using
[busboy](https://github.com/fastify/busboy)). If your documents exceed
this limit, you may run into this error when editing them within the
admin panel.
To support large documents over 1MB, use the new `bodyParser` property
on the root config:
```ts
import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
const config = buildConfig({
// ...
bodyParser: {
limits: {
fieldSize: 2 * 1024 * 1024, // This will allow requests containing up to 2MB of multipart/form-data
}
}
}
```
---
- To see the specific tasks where the Asana app for GitHub is being
used, see below:
- https://app.asana.com/0/0/1211317005907885
- bumps next.js from 15.3.2 to 15.4.4 in monorepo and templates. It's
important to run our tests against the latest Next.js version to
guarantee full compatibility.
- bumps playwright because of peer dependency conflict with next 15.4.4
- bumps react types because why not
https://nextjs.org/blog/next-15-4
As part of this upgrade, the functionality added by
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/11658 broke. This PR fixes it
by creating a wrapper around `React.isValidElemen`t that works for
Next.js 15.4.
---
- To see the specific tasks where the Asana app for GitHub is being
used, see below:
- https://app.asana.com/0/0/1210803039809808
Adds support for `halfvec` and `sparsevec` and `bit` (binary vector)
column types. This is required for supporting indexing of embeddings >
2000 dimensions on postgres using the pg-vector extension.
Adds full session functionality into Payload's existing local
authentication strategy.
It's enabled by default, because this is a more secure pattern that we
should enforce. However, we have provided an opt-out pattern for those
that want to stick to stateless JWT authentication by passing
`collectionConfig.auth.useSessions: false`.
Todo:
- [x] @jessrynkar to update the Next.js server functions for refresh and
logout to support these new features
- [x] @jessrynkar resolve build errors
---------
Co-authored-by: Elliot DeNolf <denolfe@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jessica Chowdhury <jessica@trbl.design>
Co-authored-by: Jarrod Flesch <30633324+JarrodMFlesch@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Sasha <64744993+r1tsuu@users.noreply.github.com>
### What?
The azure storage adapter returns a 500 internal server error when a
file is not found.
It's expected that it will return 404 when a file is not found.
### Why?
There is no checking if the blockBlobClient exists before it's used, so
it throws a RestError when used and the blob does not exist.
### How?
Check if exception thrown is of type RestError and have a 404 error from
the Azure API and return a 404 in that case.
An alternative way would be to call the exists() method on the
blockBlobClient, but that will be one more API call for blobs that does
exist. So I chose to check the exception instead.
Also added integration tests for azure storage in the same manner as s3,
as it was missing for azure storage.
I noticed a few issues when running e2e tests that will be resolved by
this PR:
- Most important: for some test suites (fields, fields-relationship,
versions, queues, lexical), the database was cleared and seeded
**twice** in between each test run. This is because the onInit function
was running the clear and seed script, when it should only have been
running the seed script. Clearing the database / the snapshot workflow
is being done by the reInit endpoint, which then calls onInit to seed
the actual data.
- The slowest part of `clearAndSeedEverything` is recreating indexes on
mongodb. This PR slightly improves performance here by:
- Skipping this process for the built-in `['payload-migrations',
'payload-preferences', 'payload-locked-documents']` collections
- Previously we were calling both `createIndexes` and `ensureIndexes`.
This was unnecessary - `ensureIndexes` is a deprecated alias of
`createIndexes`. This PR changes it to only call `createIndexes`
- Makes the reinit endpoint accept GET requests instead of POST requests
- this makes it easier to debug right in the browser
- Some typescript fixes
- Adds a `dev:memorydb` script to the package.json. For some reason,
`dev` is super unreliable on mongodb locally when running e2e tests - it
frequently fails during index creation. Using the memorydb fixes this
issue, with the bonus of more closely resembling the CI environment
- Previously, you were unable to run test suites using turbopack +
postgres. This fixes it, by explicitly installing `pg` as devDependency
in our monorepo
- Fixes jest open handles warning
This PR introduces a few changes to improve turbopack compatibility and
ensure e2e tests pass with turbopack enabled
## Changes to improve turbopack compatibility
- Use correct sideEffects configuration to fix scss issues
- Import scss directly instead of duplicating our scss rules
- Fix some scss rules that are not supported by turbopack
- Bump Next.js and all other dependencies used to build payload
## Changes to get tests to pass
For an unknown reason, flaky tests flake a lot more often in turbopack.
This PR does the following to get them to pass:
- add more `wait`s
- fix actual flakes by ensuring previous operations are properly awaited
## Blocking turbopack bugs
- [X] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/76464
- Fix PR: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/76545
- Once fixed: change `"sideEffectsDisabled":` back to `"sideEffects":`
## Non-blocking turbopack bugs
- [ ] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/76956
## Related PRs
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/12653https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/12652
**BREAKING CHANGE:**
This bumps the **minimum required Next.js** version from 15.0.0 to
15.2.3. This update is necessary due to a critical security
vulnerability found in earlier Next.js versions, which requires an
exception to our standard semantic versioning process.
Additionally, this bumps all templates to the latest Next.js and Payload
versions.
Imports https://github.com/payloadcms/payload-admin-bar into the Payload
monorepo. This package will now be regularly maintained directly
alongside all Payload packages and now includes its own test suite.
A few changes minor have been made between v1.0.7 and latest:
1. The package name has changed from `payload-admin-bar` to
`@payloadcms/admin-bar`.
```diff
- import { PayloadAdminBar } from 'payload-admin-bar'
+ import { PayloadAdminBar } from '@payloadcms/admin-bar'
```
2. The `collection` prop has been renamed to `collectionSlug`
3. The `authCollection` prop has been renamed to `authCollectionSlug`
Here's a screenshot of the admin bar in use within the Website Template:
<img width="1057" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-05 at 1 20 04 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2597a8fd-da75-4b2f-8979-4fc8132999e8"
/>
---------
Co-authored-by: Kalon Robson <kalon.robson@outlook.com>
Adds new plugin-import-export initial version.
Allows for direct download and creation of downloadable collection data
stored to a json or csv uses the access control of the user creating the
request to make the file.
config options:
```ts
/**
* Collections to include the Import/Export controls in
* Defaults to all collections
*/
collections?: string[]
/**
* Enable to force the export to run synchronously
*/
disableJobsQueue?: boolean
/**
* This function takes the default export collection configured in the plugin and allows you to override it by modifying and returning it
* @param collection
* @returns collection
*/
overrideExportCollection?: (collection: CollectionOverride) => CollectionOverride
// payload.config.ts:
plugins: [
importExportPlugin({
collections: ['pages', 'users'],
overrideExportCollection: (collection) => {
collection.admin.group = 'System'
collection.upload.staticDir = path.resolve(dirname, 'uploads')
return collection
},
disableJobsQueue: true,
}),
],
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Jessica Chowdhury <jessica@trbl.design>
Co-authored-by: Kendell Joseph <kendelljoseph@gmail.com>
This bumps next.js to 15.2.0 in our monorepo, as well as all @types/react and @types/react-dom versions. Additionally, it removes the obsolete `peerDependencies` property from our root package.json.
This PR also fixes 2 bugs introduced by Next.js 15.2.0. This highlights why running our test suite against the latest Next.js, to make sure Payload is compatible, version is important.
## 1. handleWhereChange running endlessly
Upgrading to Next.js 15.2.0 caused `handleWhereChange` to be continuously called by a `useEffect` when the list view filters were opened, leading to a React error - I did not investigate why upgrading the Next.js version caused that, but this PR fixes it by making use of the more predictable `useEffectEvent`.
## 2. Custom Block and Array label React key errors
Upgrading to Next.js 15.2.0 caused react key errors when rendering custom block and array row labels on the server. This has been fixed by rendering those with a key
## 3. Table React key errors
When rendering a `Table`, a React key error is thrown since Next.js 15.2.0
Adds support for timezone selection on date fields.
### Summary
New `admin.timezones` config:
```ts
{
// ...
admin: {
// ...
timezones: {
supportedTimezones: ({ defaultTimezones }) => [
...defaultTimezones,
{ label: '(GMT-6) Monterrey, Nuevo Leon', value: 'America/Monterrey' },
],
defaultTimezone: 'America/Monterrey',
},
}
}
```
New `timezone` property on date fields:
```ts
{
type: 'date',
name: 'date',
timezone: true,
}
```
### Configuration
All date fields now accept `timezone: true` to enable this feature,
which will inject a new field into the configuration using the date
field's name to construct the name for the timezone column. So
`publishingDate` will have `publishingDate_tz` as an accompanying
column. This new field is inserted during config sanitisation.
Dates continue to be stored in UTC, this will help maintain dates
without needing a migration and it makes it easier for data to be
manipulated as needed. Mongodb also has a restriction around storing
dates only as UTC.
All timezones are stored by their IANA names so it's compatible with
browser APIs. There is a newly generated type for `SupportedTimezones`
which is reused across fields.
We handle timezone calculations via a new package `@date-fns/tz` which
we will be using in the future for handling timezone aware scheduled
publishing/unpublishing and more.
### UI
Dark mode
Light mode
Having the `scripts` dir re-use all packages from the top-level was
getting quite unwieldy. Created new `tools` directory that is part of
the workspace. Packages are exported with the `@tools` package
namespace.
Bumps the following dependencies:
- next
- typescript
- http-status
- nodemailer
- Payload & next versions in all templates
- Monorepo only: playwright and dotenv
Removes unused dependencies:
- ts-jest
- jest-environment-jsdom
- resend (we don't use their sdk, we only use their rest API)
### Multi Tenant Plugin
This PR adds a `@payloadcms/plugin-multi-tenant` package. The goal is to
consolidate a source of truth for multi-tenancy. Currently we are
maintaining different implementations for clients, users in discord and
our examples repo. When updates or new paradigms arise we need to
communicate this with everyone and update code examples which is hard to
maintain.
### What does it do?
- adds a tenant selector to the sidebar, above the nav links
- adds a hidden tenant field to every collection that you specify
- adds an array field to your users collection, allowing you to assign
users to tenants
- by default combines the access control (to enabled collections) that
you define, with access control based on the tenants assigned to user on
the request
- by default adds a baseListFilter that filters the documents shown in
the list view with the selected tenant in the admin panel
### What does it not do?
- it does not implement multi-tenancy for your frontend. You will need
to query data for specific tenants to build your website/application
- it does not add a tenants collection, you **NEED** to add a tenants
collection, where you can define what types of fields you would like on
it
### The plugin config
Most of the options listed below are _optional_, but it is easier to
just lay out all of the configuration options.
**TS Type**
```ts
type MultiTenantPluginConfig<ConfigTypes = unknown> = {
/**
* After a tenant is deleted, the plugin will attempt to clean up related documents
* - removing documents with the tenant ID
* - removing the tenant from users
*
* @default true
*/
cleanupAfterTenantDelete?: boolean
/**
* Automatically
*/
collections: {
[key in CollectionSlug]?: {
/**
* Set to `true` if you want the collection to behave as a global
*
* @default false
*/
isGlobal?: boolean
/**
* Set to `false` if you want to manually apply the baseListFilter
*
* @default true
*/
useBaseListFilter?: boolean
/**
* Set to `false` if you want to handle collection access manually without the multi-tenant constraints applied
*
* @default true
*/
useTenantAccess?: boolean
}
}
/**
* Enables debug mode
* - Makes the tenant field visible in the admin UI within applicable collections
*
* @default false
*/
debug?: boolean
/**
* Enables the multi-tenant plugin
*
* @default true
*/
enabled?: boolean
/**
* Field configuration for the field added to all tenant enabled collections
*/
tenantField?: {
access?: RelationshipField['access']
/**
* The name of the field added to all tenant enabled collections
*
* @default 'tenant'
*/
name?: string
}
/**
* Field configuration for the field added to the users collection
*
* If `includeDefaultField` is `false`, you must include the field on your users collection manually
* This is useful if you want to customize the field or place the field in a specific location
*/
tenantsArrayField?:
| {
/**
* Access configuration for the array field
*/
arrayFieldAccess?: ArrayField['access']
/**
* When `includeDefaultField` is `true`, the field will be added to the users collection automatically
*/
includeDefaultField?: true
/**
* Additional fields to include on the tenants array field
*/
rowFields?: Field[]
/**
* Access configuration for the tenant field
*/
tenantFieldAccess?: RelationshipField['access']
}
| {
arrayFieldAccess?: never
/**
* When `includeDefaultField` is `false`, you must include the field on your users collection manually
*/
includeDefaultField?: false
rowFields?: never
tenantFieldAccess?: never
}
/**
* The slug for the tenant collection
*
* @default 'tenants'
*/
tenantsSlug?: string
/**
* Function that determines if a user has access to _all_ tenants
*
* Useful for super-admin type users
*/
userHasAccessToAllTenants?: (
user: ConfigTypes extends { user: User } ? ConfigTypes['user'] : User,
) => boolean
}
```
**Example usage**
```ts
import type { Config } from './payload-types'
import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
export default buildConfig({
plugins: [
multiTenantPlugin<Config>({
collections: {
pages: {},
},
userHasAccessToAllTenants: (user) => isSuperAdmin(user),
}),
],
})
```
### How to configure Collections as Globals for multi-tenant
When using multi-tenant, globals need to actually be configured as
collections so the content can be specific per tenant.
To do that, you can mark a collection with `isGlobal` and it will behave
like a global and users will not see the list view.
```ts
multiTenantPlugin({
collections: {
navigation: {
isGlobal: true,
},
},
})
```
Bumps Next.js to the latest version `15.1.3`. This affects only internal
`package.json` files (in the root dir and test)
Fixes errors from here https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/10209
This PR updates all react and next-related packages to the latest
version in our test directory and in our templates, while still allowing
older versions to be used.
Additionally, this ensures that the "scheduler" package version we
install matches the version installed by react-dom
TS 5.7 added support for ES2024. By keeping target: “esnext”, we would
have accidentally set our minimum supported ES version to ES2024.
This sets it to ES2022, which is the version supported by Node 18
### What?
Upgrades mongoose from 6 to latest `v8.8.1`
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/9171
### Why?
Compatibilty with Mongodb Atlas
### How?
- Updates deps
- Changed ObjectId from bson-objectid to use `new Type.ObjectId` from
mongoose for compatibility (only inside of db-mongodb)
- Internal type adjustments
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/9088
BREAKING CHANGES:
All projects with existing data having versions enabled, or relationship or upload fields will want to create the predefined migration that converts all strings to ObjectIDs where needed. This can be created using `payload migrate:create --file @payloadcms/mongodb/relationships-v2-v3`.
For projects making use of the exposed Models from mongoose, review the
upgrade guides from [v6 to
v7](https://mongoosejs.com/docs/7.x/docs/migrating_to_7.html) and [v7 to
v8](https://mongoosejs.com/docs/migrating_to_8.html) and make
adjustments as needed.
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Co-authored-by: Sasha <64744993+r1tsuu@users.noreply.github.com>
Upgrade uploadthing to v7
The `options` that can be passed to the plugin now mirror the
`UTApiOptions` of v7.
The most notable change is to pass `token` with
`process.env.UPLOADTHING_TOKEN` instead of `apiKey` with
`process.env.UPLOADTHING_SECRET`.
```diff
options: {
- apiKey: process.env.UPLOADTHING_SECRET,
+ token: process.env.UPLOADTHING_TOKEN,
acl: 'public-read',
},
I'm needing https://github.com/facebook/lexical/pull/6693
I'm going to keep the dependency bump and feature updates in separate
PRs unless they're breaking changes.*
**BREAKING:**
This upgrades our lexical dependencies from 0.18.0 to 0.20.0. If you
have lexical dependencies installed in your project, you will have to
upgrade those.
Additionally, the lexical team may introduce breaking changes in this
upgrade. If you use lexical APIs directly, please consult their
changelog for more information:
https://github.com/facebook/lexical/releases
### What?
Adds full support for the point field to Postgres and Vercel Postgres
adapters through the Postgis extension. Fully the same API as with
MongoDB, including support for `near`, `within` and `intersects`
operators.
Additionally, exposes to adapter args:
*
`tablesFilter`https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/drizzle-kit-push#including-tables-schemas-and-extensions.
* `extensions` list of extensions to create, for example `['vector',
'pg_search']`, `postgis` is created automatically if there's any point
field
### Why?
It's essential to support that field type, especially if the postgres
adapter should be out of beta on 3.0 stable.
### How?
* Bumps `drizzle-orm` to `0.36.1` and `drizzle-kit` to `0.28.0` as we
need this change https://github.com/drizzle-team/drizzle-orm/pull/3141
* Uses its functions to achieve querying functionality, for example the
`near` operator works through `ST_DWithin` or `intersects` through
`ST_Intersects`.
* Removes MongoDB condition from all point field tests, but keeps for
SQLite
Resolves these discussions:
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/8996https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/8644
BREAKING CHANGE: Rename `@payloadcms/plugin-cloud` to
`@payloadcms/payload-cloud`. Anyone using the existing plugin will need
to switch to using the new package.
## Why?
Since v3 will be using _fixed versioning_, all versions of `^3` must be
available. Unfortunately, the `@payloadcms/plugin-cloud` version has
already breached that version number. Renaming will allow it to be on
the same version as other monorepo packages.
Additionally, the name `plugin-cloud` is quite ambiguous and sometimes
is confused with `plugin-cloud-storage`, so using `payload-cloud` feels
like a good move to make this more evident.
