# PocketBase v0.40.1 — v0.40.1 Release

- Product: PocketBase (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pocketbase)
- Vendor: PocketBase
- Date: 2026-08-24
- Version: v0.40.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/releases/tag/v0.40.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pocketbase/releases/v0.40.1

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- **fixed** — Allow mangling invalid UTF8 characters when serializing json data
- **fixed** — Fixed OAuth2 providers config merge incorrectly replacing the entire slice

> _To update the prebuilt executable you can run `./pocketbase update`._

- Fixes for some reported regressions related to the `encoding/json/v2` update:
    - allow mangling invalid UTF8 characters when serializing json data ([#7814](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/7814))
    - fixed OAuth2 providers config merge incorrectly replacing the entire slice ([#7815](https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/7815))