Directus

A permission rule allowing edits to A only when related B is published blocks all edits after upgrading to 10.3.0, though earlier versions worked.

Affects: admins with relational permission rules

Bootstrapping against a cloud MSSQL database fails when a migration tries to drop a column that other objects depend on.

Affects: teams using SQL Server

After upgrading Directus, the instance crashes at startup with a Zod discriminated union error while an extension has its own zod dependency.

Affects: developers running custom extensions in Docker

Querying items tagged with two categories through an _and filter returns no results although each category alone works, in both the UI and GraphQL.

Affects: users with many-to-many categories

After a refresh token expires, public SDK calls still attempt a token refresh and fail, leaving the site unusable until the cookie is cleared.

Affects: developers mixing logged-in and anonymous access

Twitch login through OAuth2 and OIDC does not work; the user expects the universal protocols to work with arbitrary providers or at least have supported ones documented.

Affects: admins configuring SSO

Request to change a field's options, including hidden or visible state, based on the values of other fields.

Replacing a file keeps the same ID and leaves no clear signal, so CDNs keep serving the old image. A version or similar value would allow cache invalidation.

Affects: teams serving assets through a CDN

The requester wants SSO usable as a convenience for login on existing accounts, with admin options to restrict registration and login methods for security.

Affects: admins configuring SSO

The commenter wishes for an admin UI built for a single database such as Postgres, arguing generalist tools like Directus cannot exploit database-specific strengths.

Affects: Postgres users

Inserting an operation between two existing flow operations raises a uniqueness error on the resolve field; unlinking, saving and then re-linking works.

Affects: users building Flows

Using Directus as a headless CMS for Jekyll sites, the user saves a post then manually triggers a deployment, noting build hooks could automate it.

Affects: developer running static sites with a headless CMS

A developer found using off-the-shelf CMSs painful and now builds custom backends with sqlite and bun for tighter control and independence from CMS maintainers.

Affects: freelance web developer serving clients

After struggling with refresh-token handling, the team switched to Django, where a plain http-only secure cookie proxied through Next.js was enough.

Affects: team building a Next.js app

A user running Directus with SQLite and Litestream lacks a good migration and CI/CD approach and plans to move to something custom.

Affects: solo developer self-hosting on fly.io