n8n 2.38.1, released on September 1, 2026, delivers a wide-ranging set of bug fixes, new node capabilities, and performance optimizations. Self-hosted users will benefit from improved stability across the core engine, editor, and AI Builder, as well as fixes for popular nodes like Gmail, HTTP Request, and Chat Trigger. For example, the Gmail Trigger no longer loses queued messages when a fetch fails mid-poll and no longer misses emails when more than 100 arrive between polls. The HTTP Request node now preserves SSL passphrases with whitespace intact and surfaces the API response when a file upload fails. The Chat Trigger node applies authentication to test webhook requests and respects private chat settings. MongoDB sort and projection now support parameter binding, and AWS request parameter values are preserved.
On the feature side, the Confluence node receives significant expansion, including page label add/remove operations, a Get Comments operation, a Get Many by Label operation, and a new Space resource with Get and Get Many. The MongoDB node gains batch update and find-and-update via bulkWrite. Databricks adds a user-delegated OAuth2 credential with authorization code + PKCE. Gotify now supports extra notification settings. Agent Builder adds Moonshot, MiniMax, and Qwen Cloud as model providers, and introduces background execution mode for sub-agent delegation. The core also serves a nonce-based Content-Security-Policy on HTML pages and splits the hosted chat page into a trusted shell and sandboxed frame.
Performance improvements include lazy acquisition of agent workspace sandboxes, making them persistent and shared with delegated sub-agents, chunking package ID lookups, reading the poller state row only once per durable poll tick, reducing workflow import queries, and caching AI gateway wallet credits balance in the editor.
The editor receives numerous usability upgrades, such as adaptive layout for ChatInput, a floating Markdown editor toolbar, a Contact Support link in the Help menu for Cloud instances, sentence case settings labels, and renaming n8n credits to Gateway credits. The install script now offers to send an anonymous failure report. Overall, this release focuses on reliability, security, and expanding integration options for self-hosted automation workflows.
