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Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.

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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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41 beginner-friendly issues open

filterOptions on a virtual: 'path.to.field' relationship/upload field is never applied in the list view's Where Builder filter dropdown Open

area: ui Bug status: needs-triage v3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

payloadcms/payload#18215 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
plugin-multi-tenant: an async `validate` override on the tenant field skips the plugin's required check (override not awaited) Open

Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

payloadcms/payload#18163 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Bulk upload: an interrupted upload is dropped from the retry queue and counted as a success Open

Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

payloadcms/payload#18161 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Authenticated me endpoint ignores the draft URL search parameter Open

area: core Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

payloadcms/payload#18072 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Admin list filters: condition controls have no accessible names Open

Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

payloadcms/payload#18067 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Folder list view (FolderFileTable): show image thumbnails instead of the generic DocumentIcon Open

Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

payloadcms/payload#17964 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2026
SVG upload rejected as "Invalid MIME type: application/xml." when the file starts with a DOCTYPE Open

area: core Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17958 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
?joins=false is ignored over REST; the string is iterated character by character so no join is disabled Open

area: fields

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

payloadcms/payload#17929 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Jobs: updateJobs leaks a Postgres transaction when db.updateJobs throws (no try/catch between beginTransaction and commitTransaction) — connections stuck 'idle in transaction' until the pool is exhausted Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

payloadcms/payload#17912 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Allow joins: false for collections without generated join fields Open

v4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

payloadcms/payload#17904 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
[plugin-import-export] Prefix labels being applied to row fields and unnamed/unlabelled group fields in export fields dropdown Open

area: ui status: needs-triage v3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17882 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
[plugin-ecommerce] Cart items with a variant skip stock and price validation in initiatePayment Open

plugin: ecommerce

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

payloadcms/payload#17866 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
[Bug] Top-level group/tabs fields are misaligned on the right (content + separator) vs sibling fields Open

area: ui status: needs-triage v3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17851 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Relationship field option groups duplicate when collection labels are localized objects Open

area: ui

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17758 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Bug: List view drops URL "where" filter on bulk Publish/Unpublish/Edit across pages Open

area: ui

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17670 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Bulk edit's folder picker titles itself "Select folder for [Untitled]" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17669 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Move-to-folder drawer opens inside the item's current folder (an empty screen) instead of showing destination folders Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

payloadcms/payload#17668 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Switching list-view tabs (All / By Folder / Trash) wipes the collection's saved preferences (columns, sort, limit) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17666 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
In the job types, the cron example is wrong Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17589 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Failed publish leaves "Save draft" disabled — user believes the draft was saved, changes are lost Open

area: ui Bug created-by: Contributor

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

payloadcms/payload#17517 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2026
cloneDataFromOriginalDoc mangles json array-of-arrays into index-keyed objects on partial update Open

Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

payloadcms/payload#17475 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
CollapsibleField doesn't forward `forceRender`, so its children never render while the tab is backgrounded Open

Bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 75/100

payloadcms/payload#17473 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Admin pagination: previous/next arrow buttons have no accessible name Open

area: ui

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17377 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2026
plugin-seo: Auto-generate button has no loading state when generateTitle/generateURL is async Open

created-by: Contributor

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 76/100

payloadcms/payload#17239 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 8, 2026
plugin-ecommerce: Stripe adapter hangs on Cloudflare Workers (workerd) — new Stripe() needs a fetch httpClient Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

payloadcms/payload#17201 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 4, 2026
Global with drafts + autosave shows "Draft" instead of "Changed" — getVersions strips _status via select, so hasPublishedDoc is always false Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17164 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2026
ConfigSync component crashes all admin pages with React 19 Open

area: ui invalid-reproduction status: needs-triage v3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

payloadcms/payload#17095 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Card button aria-label and title not correctly localized Open

area: core status: needs-triage v3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#17069 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2026
beforeDuplicate hook iterates locales but does not pass current locale to hook Open

area: core status: needs-triage v3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

payloadcms/payload#17021 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2026
bug: multi-tenant tenants create form wiped on failed validation Open

created-by: Contributor plugin: multi-tenant

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#16953 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 10, 2026
bin/loadEnv.js: default import on @next/env breaks under tsx CJS transpile Open

stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

payloadcms/payload#16683 · Opened May 19, 2026
loadEnv fails with "Cannot destructure property 'loadEnvConfig'" on Next.js 15.5+ Open

stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

payloadcms/payload#16674 · Opened May 19, 2026
PDF missing from upload MIME fallback map Open

stale

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

payloadcms/payload#16485 · 1 comment · Opened May 5, 2026
[plugin-ecommerce] validateOptions crashes when a sibling variant has no options Open

created-by: Contributor plugin: ecommerce

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

payloadcms/payload#16368 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 23, 2026
payload run crashes on Node 24: loadEnvConfig of undefined in loadEnv.ts Open

area: core stale status: needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

payloadcms/payload#16341 · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Add jitter to exponential backoff in job queue retry Open

stale

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

payloadcms/payload#16318 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 19, 2026
[db:mongodb] Non-sparse unique index created for conditionally required fields Open

area: core created-by: Contributor db: mongodb status: needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

payloadcms/payload#16298 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Table Header Misalignment with orderable: true Open

area: ui stale status: needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

payloadcms/payload#16251 · Opened Apr 11, 2026
[ReferenceError: File is not defined] Open

stale status: needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

payloadcms/payload#16138 · Opened Apr 2, 2026
plugin-nested-docs: duplicate breadcrumb IDs across locales cause unique constraint violation on publish Open

db: postgres plugin: nested-docs status: needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

payloadcms/payload#16054 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 25, 2026
Cross-site navigation (e.g. email links) logs out authenticated users in 3.79.1 Open

area: core stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

payloadcms/payload#16031 · 7 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2026

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