I’m excited to share that we’ll soon be releasing n8n version 2.0.0 (v2 for short), with a focus on security, reliability, and performance.
It’s been over two years since we released n8n 1.0.0 back in July 2023. Since then, n8n has made some incredible strides thanks to the feedback and help we’ve received from our amazing community and all of the hard work from our tireless engineering & product teams.
As a result, n8n has proven itself and become the solution of choice for workflow automation & Agentic AI orchestration for millions of individuals and some of the world’s largest companies.
Because we follow semantic versioning, this release includes some necessary breaking changes - allowing us to clean up the codebase, enforce better security defaults and remove older, legacy components that have been retired.
We’re also adding a few UI/UX improvements so it looks better and is easier to use 
We’re posting about this here to help you understand what to expect and provide a place to ask questions.
When is this happening?
We will be releasing:
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Version 2.0.0 (beta) on Dec 8th.
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Version 2.0.x (stable) on Dec 15th.
Please follow our release notes page for the latest updates: https://docs.n8n.io/release-notes/
What’s new with v2?
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Improved reliability and security
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Updated look and feel for the canvas
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Sidebar UX updates
Soon after v2 launch we’ll be adding autosave in January.
What are the breaking changes?
We’re making some necessary changes to expected behavior, security enforcement, storage backends, configuration and environment variables.
Please check the dedicated docs page that covers all of the changes and provides migration paths for how to address them: https://docs.n8n.io/2-0-breaking-changes/
We also added a Migration Report tool that shows workflow or instance level issues you need to address before upgrading: https://docs.n8n.io/migration-tool-v2/
- Only global admins will see the Migration Report in their settings.
- The Migration Report tool is live since version 1.121.0
Does the free self-hosted community version get all of the v2 updates?
Yes. All of the changes we’re making for v2 apply to everyone - free self-hosted (community), cloud and enterprise/business versions of n8n.
What about version 1.x?
Versions 1.x will continue to be supported and updated for 3 months after the release of 2.x, but will only include bug security fixes. No new features will be added to versions 1.x after the release of 2.x
What if I have questions?
The best place to ask questions is here in the community forum - simply reply to this post.
I’m so ready for the new drops 
