# After update to 2.4.0.beta9 every categories address has a slash and a number

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**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-to-2-4-0-beta9-every-categories-address-has-a-slash-and-a-number/139260 "2020-01-21T05:21:33Z")
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### Author: ![aksoforever](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aksoforever/32/502615_2.png) [@aksoforever](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aksoforever)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-to-2-4-0-beta9-every-categories-address-has-a-slash-and-a-number/139260/1 "2020-01-21T05:21:33Z")

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After i update to 2.4.0.beta9 every categorie address has a slash and a number, like the under pic

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/4/94d0917fd010cd6ad596bc184b6d53d668835d31.png)  
who can tell me why add this?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-to-2-4-0-beta9-every-categories-address-has-a-slash-and-a-number/139260/2 "2020-01-21T05:27:06Z")

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We added this to disambiguate a lot of our internal routing. It simplified our routes and made them less fragile to renames and so on.

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### Author: ![aksoforever](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aksoforever/32/502615_2.png) [@aksoforever](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aksoforever)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-to-2-4-0-beta9-every-categories-address-has-a-slash-and-a-number/139260/3 "2020-01-21T05:50:46Z")

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Thanks, get it, so the category name just a name exists, only the categories’ id works nomatter the Category Slug is what, it will display the category, like the under pic

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/1/4119bc54321b9a4d140660bcadcb20d51eb4942c.png)

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-to-2-4-0-beta9-every-categories-address-has-a-slash-and-a-number/139260/4 "2020-02-20T05:55:54Z")

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