Additional resources for migrating to Strapi 5

The following pages cover some specific topics for migrating to Strapi 5 that have not been covered neither in the CLI upgrade tool guide nor in the list of breaking changes:

❗️ Warning

It is currently strongly advised that you refrain from migrating from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5, especially in a production environment.

The beta version of Strapi 5 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, deprecated in Strapi 5, to the new Document Service API.

🧩 Plugins migration summary

Find all resources and answers to your questions on how to migrate your plugins to Strapi 5.

💁 Helper-plugin deprecation reference

Learn how to develop plugins with the Strapi v4 helper-plugin that has been removed in Strapi 5.