Misc Changes

• turbo-tasks-backend: release the owner task before the reader side of keyed refinement: #101732

Credits

Huge thanks to @sokra for helping!

Core Changes

• Enable turbopackMinifyBeforeChunking by default on canary releases: #101113
• Turbopack: write smaller/faster client reference manifests: #101312
• Generate managed agent instructions on next dev and respect opt-outs: #101746
• fix(next/image): check the LCP element loading state: #101737
• Run render error reporting outside the work-unit scope: #101597
• Fix RSC navigation and runtime prefetches in next start: #101357
• Expose full-route RSC prerender classification to adapters: #101309
• Distinguish dynamic rendering from required prerendering: #101511
• turbopack: size chunk items by their minified code when minifying before chunking: #101010
• Prevent repeated prerenders during fallback shell revalidation: #101756
• Enable Turbopack GC by default: #101591
• Exit next dev when the server process is killed by a signal: #101752
• Store "use cache" durability once per entry in server reference manifest: #101674
• Remove durability property from createServerModuleMap results: #101730
• Resolve webpack dev HMR test callback when a build has nothing to apply: #101682
• turbo-tasks: capture effects on multiple workers: #101514
• Turbopack: report routes nested inside catch-all segments instead of panicking in dev: #101697

Example Changes

• docs: standalone env file precedence and with-docker-multi-env secrets: #101728
• examples: bump Alpine Docker base images to Node 24: #101215

Misc Changes

• docs: place shell param-order rule with build-time shells: #101680
• turbo-persistence: don't modify the directory on read-only open: #101779
• Optimize inline_atom: #101778
• docs: clarify standalone .env copying and the next-server tracing exclude key: #101699
• docs: Add more clarification about SVG security policies: #101311
• Add a 48-hour Cargo dependency cooldown: #101765
• Update Rust nightly to 2026-11-13: #101764
• Upgrade React from df6aa4ec-20261112 to df6aa4ec-20261112: #101760
• turbo-tasks-backend: store task edges in flat EdgeSets: #101489
• turbo-tasks-backend: add a profile driver to the keyed dependencies benchmark: #101731
• docs: correct deploymentId environment variable precedence: #101740
• Turbopack: list compact re-export namespace keys in code unit order: #101494
• turbo-tasks-backend: fix transient root test race: #101700
• Scaffold separate entrypoint for Turbopack NFT functionality: #94356
• Turbopack: read UnusedReferences by key in ESM export code generation: #101626
• Require real deployment coverage for application behavior: #101510
• Turbopack: read UnusedReferences by key in pattern mapping: #101725
• test: replace files atomically in patchFile: #101683
• turbo-persistence: faster key block sorting: #100335
• turbopack: return small free ranges to the OS after project shutdown: #101623
• Turbopack: return freed memory eagerly while shutting down the project: #101589
• turbo-persistence: validate sst_inspect block reads with BlockOffsets: #100313

Credits

Huge thanks to @lukesandberg, @icyJoseph, @aurorascharff, @bgw, @wbinnssmith, @unstubbable, @sokra, and @mischnic for helping!

Core Changes

• Optimize NFT base path mapping: #101151
• Fix ImageResponse prerendering with --debug-prerender: #101678
• Upgrade React from 1620f7b9-20261111 to df6aa4ec-20261112: #101673
• Fix ESLint link rule for constant and mapped hrefs: #101641
• Complete metadata references and fix descriptor resolution: #101547
• docs: clarify dynamicParams with Cache Components: #100249
• Test Proxy Link headers across cache revalidation: #101620
• Remove obsolete prerender abort workarounds: #101621
• Use forward slashes in route bundle stats chunk paths: #101617
• Preserve build diagnostics during worker shutdown: #101598

Misc Changes

• turbo-tasks-backend: keep the active count inline: #101486
• turbopack: use static for shared rcstr! values and hardcode magic identifiers: #101686
• docs: clarify synchronous IO after request data: #101685
• turbo-persistence: remove ParallelScheduler::block_in_place: #101544
• Turbopack: release freed memory right after project shutdown: #101529
• turbo-tasks-backend: read collectibles and update the reader dependency atomically: #101548
• [internal-skills] fetch CI status on demand instead of blocking on --wait: #101661
• Fix pnpm-lock.yaml for bench/large-app-router after React upgrade: #101642
• bench: add generated large App Router benchmark for Turbopack scaling: #101502
• test: fix flaky vary-params-base-dynamic prefetch collection: #101531
• test: fit cold-cache npm install in create-next-app template test timeout: #101625
• docs: add native DOM examples to Activity guide: #101581
• turbo-persistence: report batch_get misses from batch_lookup_entry: #101615
• create-next-app: exit with code 1 when installation fails: #101624
• Strengthen documentation review criteria: #101622
• Turbopack: skip unmatched siblings when building app loader trees: #101535
• docs: explain runtime config removal on the middleware-to-proxy error page: #101616
• Turbopack: start whole-app client style groups earlier in production builds: #101612
• turbo-tasks: don't make parentless transient tasks aggregation roots: #101614
• turbo-tasks: avoid redundant aggregation roots and root-upper optimization cascades: #101604
• turbo-persistence: make batch_get callback-oriented: #100678

Credits

Huge thanks to @lukesandberg, @mischnic, @aurorascharff, @sokra, @unstubbable, @eps1lon, and @icyJoseph for helping!

Core Changes

• Prerender route handlers that await immediates: #101593
• Fix orphaned detached telemetry flush processes: #101588
• Upgrade React from e84e1492-20261031 to 1620f7b9-20261111: #101587
• docs: clarify tag invalidation client effects: #101504
• Keep dev overlay errors across no-op webpack hot updates: #101532

Misc Changes

• Turbopack: don't grow effect vectors inside the analyzer arena: #101480
• Fix metadata route selection with --debug-build-paths: #101585
• eval: generate the docs pointer from the tested Next.js package: #101558
• Turbopack: scale default disk write concurrency: #101519
• eval: correct graders for Proxy, instant navigation, and category prefetching: #101523
• docs: clarify Server Actions configuration: #101549
• Turbopack: add build cache portability e2e test and fix location-dependent tasks: #100780
• Turbopack: replace SwcComments with a lightweight MutableComments store: #101543
• turbo-tasks-backend: merge aggregated data updates for new followers: #100435
• test: fix keep-alive socket reuse in CSS HMR race helper: #101530
• turbo-tasks: count task executions in task statistics: #101025
• test: fix repeated-slashes router push navigation race: #101528
• next-core: deserialize next.config env and output file tracing globs into typed maps: #100971
• turbo-tasks: add OrderedJsonValue/OrderedJsonMap with key-order-sensitive equality: #100964
• turbo-tasks: use OrderedAutoMap/OrderedAutoSet for order-observing values: #100940
• auto-hash-map: add positional access and IndexMap/IndexSet conversions for ordered maps: #101497
• test: close lingering prerender-export server connections: #101527
• test: fix flaky app-root-params-getters/simple: #101525
• test: fix flaky dev-validation-worker-source-maps: #101524
• turbo-tasks-malloc: use official mimalloc Rust bindings (v3.6.1): #101518
• docs: explain complementary Web Vitals and custom metrics APIs: #98968

Credits

Huge thanks to @unstubbable, @timneutkens, @jimmyhmiller, @aurorascharff, @sokra, @lukesandberg, and @adityareddy-dev for helping!

Core Changes

• fix(next/image): detect distortion using intrinsic proportions: #101349
• Write CPU profiles for next build static workers: #100614

Misc Changes

• turbo-tasks-backend: process aggregation edge removals after additions and balancing: #100892
• turbo-tasks-backend: track early aggregation edge removals as follower debt instead of retrying: #100873
• Skip unused URL effects in web worker constructors: #101297
• Turbopack: discover snapshot fixtures with custom entries: #101495
• turbo-tasks: Add AutoSet and OrderedAutoSet benchmarks: #100952
• turbo-tasks: Support IndexMap backed AutoMap and AutoSet: #100948
• Turbopack: fix scope-hoisted imports of missing exports: #101482
• Turbopack: don't suggest already-imported names for missing exports: #101479

Credits

Huge thanks to @sokra, @jimmyhmiller, and @aurorascharff for helping!

Core Changes

• Resolve parallel route params from the URL when predicting routes: #101477
• Prevent prerenders from changing foreground response status: #101295
• Release fetch cache locks when origin fetch throws synchronously: #101461
• Don't block the dev overlay on the npm registry version check: #100628
• Fix deployed RSC responses after static-to-partial revalidation: #101454
• docs: enable the testing API at build and server startup: #101443

Misc Changes

• turbo-tasks: pack CellKey into one word: #101393
• Turbopack: use bincode fixint encoding for ids and persisted hashes: #101419
• [evals] Move fixtures to AI SDK 7: #101470
• Turbopack: migrate CSS snapshot tests to execution tests: #101232
• Turbopack: migrate basic snapshot tests to execution tests: #101231
• Turbopack: migrate tree-shaking and scope-hoisting snapshot tests to execution tests: #101230
• Turbopack: migrate ESM export optimization snapshot tests to execution tests: #101229
• Turbopack: migrate CommonJS tree-shaking snapshot tests to execution tests: #101228
• Turbopack: migrate comptime snapshot tests to execution tests: #101227
• Turbopack: migrate import and resolution snapshot tests to execution tests: #101211
• Require real router interactions in navigation tests: #101462
• [create-next-app] Output next steps commands when creating app from template: #99769

Credits

Huge thanks to @lukesandberg, @acdlite, @unstubbable, @swarnava, @sokra, @ShakilUrRehman21, and @aurorascharff for helping!

Core Changes

• [lts-active] Pin Tailwind to 4.3.3 in create-next-app and tests (#101061, #101176) (#101307)
• [lts-active] Automatically compress route handler responses if not already compressed (#101280)
• [lts-active] Turbopack GC fixes for dev (#100279, #100370) (#101308)

Credits

Huge thanks to @lukesandberg and @eps1lon for helping!

Core Changes

• docs: clarify agent feedback workspace context: #101358

Misc Changes

• Turbopack: support turbopackIgnore on new URL(): #99965
• turbo-tasks-backend: release unused capacity in task storage: #101344
• turbopack-ecmascript: store AstPathTrie nodes as parent and kind indices: #101370

Credits

Huge thanks to @lukesandberg and @aurorascharff for helping!

Core Changes

• docs: clarify refresh client cache behavior: #101160
• Link Cache Components config errors to the migration guide: #101348
• Bump is-animated@3.0.19: #101173

Example Changes

• docs: use visible route locators with Cache Components: #101346

Misc Changes

• docs: fix missing Roboto_Mono import in Pages Router font example: #88849
• docs: fix crossOrigin wording: #97462
• fix: update MDN link in route.mdx: #100753
• docs: fix link reference for child Layout in documentation: #94327
• docs: fix two links broken by the middleware to proxy rename: #99375
• docs: clarify Image priority migration and loading choices: #101345
• docs: clarify metadata image precedence: #101249
• Upgrade Rust toolchain to nightly-2026-11-06: #101279

Credits

Huge thanks to @codeandcore, @Rezakarimzadeh98, @robsimmons, @fediev, @adityareddy-dev, @aurorascharff, @styfle, and @mischnic for helping!

Core Changes

• fix(app-render): stop prerendered Link headers from accumulating on revalidation: #100960
• Align eslint-config-next TypeScript peer with typescript-eslint: #101247
• Reduce header allocations in NodeNextResponse: #101225
• [image-optimizer] Move next/image-optimizer-transform under the next/experimental namespace: #101252
• [image-optimizer] Don't use NextConfigComplete for the imageOptimizerTransform public API: #101184
• Improve Request Insights context menus and trace interactions: #97796
• Build and analyze in one pass: #99962

Misc Changes

• docs: clarify SVG handling in the Image Optimization API: #101301
• Turbopack: use hash collections for turbo-tasks values whose order is unobserved: #100939
• Turbopack: don't split page entries into a facade: #101152
• Turbopack: replace Next.js entry kinds with an opaque entry tag: #101291
• docs: map BFF proxy example routes to fixed backend endpoints: #101286
• docs: explain ESLint setup with TypeScript 7: #101246
• Durable use cache conditional reads: #101283
• docs: read the URL in history API event handlers instead of calling hooks: #101224
• review: escalate Next.js concepts in Turbopack code: #101278
• test: enable HMR dependency acceptance coverage for webpack: #101196
• test: Replace itTurbopack with test gates: #101195

Credits

Huge thanks to @styfle, @lukesandberg, @linyiru, @icyJoseph, @kassens, @mischnic, @eps1lon, @bgw, @DavidIlie, and @wbinnssmith for helping!