Payload v3.85.0

v3.85.0 (2026-05-26)

🚀 Features

• plugin-import-export: out of beta and added support for collection-level and field-level hooks (#16556) (cf9252d)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• bump uuid package to 13.0.2 (#16545) (274af06)
• stop workflows retrying forever when no retries are configured (#16465) (caf9150)
• db-mongodb: bump mongoose to 8.22.1 for GHSA-wpg9-53fq-2r8h (#16688) (4baba91)
• plugin-cloud-storage: propagate custom hook errors during upload (#16632) (055c508)
• plugin-cloud-storage: preserve user-defined prefix.defaultValue (#16529) (8d14915)
• plugin-cloud-storage: dedupe filename in clientUploads signed URL (#16510) (64b2860)
• plugin-multi-tenant: tenant field unselectable in bulk upload "Edit all" (#16466) (695df3c)
• richtext-lexical: cursor kicked out of nested richtext while typing in a block (#16490) (931a349)
• richtext-lexical: drag/drop image into rich text fails when a field name matches the collection slug (#16409) (d6f7b47)
• ui: bulk upload silently counts failed files as saved (#16532) (c31f4ef)
• ui: respect formatDocURL returning null in ListDrawer (#16464) (0facc44)
• ui: show all listSearchableFields in ListDrawer search placeholder (#16467) (3cd4a64)

📚 Documentation

• fix links in admin faq (#16711) (7e4f7af)
• adds relevant videos to docs sections (#16516) (d17298f)

📝 Templates

• bumps next.js to 16.2.6 (#16538) (9b36063)

⚙️ CI

• use postgres 15 for content api tests (#16706) (99d4930)

🏡 Chores

• deps: bump nodemailer minimum version to 8.0.5 (#16664) (efa4afe)

🤝 Contributors

• Sean Zubrickas (@zubricks)
• German Jablonski (@GermanJablo)
• Jake Fletcher (@jacobsfletch)
• Paul (@paulpopus)
• Alessio Gravili (@AlessioGr)