Improve structure tool stability, CLI behavior, and TypeScript schema typings
Published: August 4, 2026
v6.9.0
This release fixes a crash in the structure tool's incoming references inspector, and enhances TypeScript schema helpers to better preserve optional properties.
🐛 Notable bugfixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash that could take down the whole structure tool when the Incoming references inspector was open. Inspector panels now show a recoverable error inside the panel instead of unmounting the tool, and the incoming references list links to the referencing document when the exact field path cannot be determined.
- CLI deploy: build and deploy now keeps a studio’s installed package versions rather than silently ignoring
deployment.autoUpdates, reports the existing app id when its slug is already taken, and applies the app'svisibility. - CLI: Show table output when commands are run programmatically. Commands that render tables, such as
sanity users list, produced no output when invoked programmatically instead of from a terminal.sanity users listnow also reports when a project has no members rather than printing an empty table. - CLI init: Use @sanity/icons v5 de-barrelled imports in templates.
- TypeScript: Schema define helpers now preserve explicitly supplied optional properties on their return types. For example, a
preview,options,validation, orcomponentsproperty declared inline throughdefineType,defineField, ordefineArrayMembercan be read from the returned value without unnecessary non-null assertions.