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Fragment scroll enabled by default; experimental TypeScript CLI backend added

v16.3.0-preview.6

July 13, 2026Next.jsView original ↗
3 features20 enhancements15 fixesThis release3 featuresNew capabilities20 enhancementsImprovements to existing features15 fixesBug fixesAI-tallied from the release notes
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Core Changes

  • Enhance ESLint rule no-location-assign-relative-destination: #93057

Misc Changes

  • Turbopack: order CSS modules by chunk-group co-occurrence in linearize: #95579
  • [test] Disable i18n-api-support deploy test for Turbopack with adapters: #95739
  • Fork navigation-testing-lock module: #95611
  • docs: runtime prefetching update: #95564
  • request insights: add agent diagnosis access (4/5): #93977
  • Fix Pages router 404 runtime rendering with Adapter: #95264
  • Fix duplicate static files in adapter: #95681
  • Update font data: #95725
  • [test] Disable middleware-rewrites deploy test for Turbopack with adapters: #95680
  • request insights: expose dev snapshots to tools and HMR (3/5): #93976
  • request insights: derive request history and fetch data (2/5): #93975
  • request insights: record local framework spans (1/5): #93974
  • Turbopack tests: remove assertions that duplicate webpack results: #95688
  • Fix support for custom-media-queries in LightningCSS: #95689
  • Clarify AI-assisted contribution policy in PR template and AGENTS.md: #95629
  • docs: add Building guide: #94999
  • docs: add incremental adoption path to Cache Components migration guide: #95325
  • [PPF] Sync IO is only allowed in the dynamic stage: #95384
  • refactor: remove unnecessary switches from StagedRenderingController: #95383
  • Keep the request body a plain Readable after middleware so Readable.toWeb() doesn't hang: #95607
  • docs: note default error/not-found UI follows OS color scheme, not app theme: #95673
  • test: skip redbox check in "static prefetch - missing suspense around search params": #95670
  • test: allow-runtime breaks Link's Server component child detection: #95596
  • docs: Immutable static assets: #95348
  • [turbopack] Simplify service worker e2e tests: #95672
  • [docs] Update "Handling a Custom Service Worker" in the CRA migration docs: #95434
  • [docs] Update progressive web apps documentation for new service worker syntax: #95431
  • (TypeScript 7 Support) Add experimental TypeScript CLI backend: #95639
  • [turbopack] Compile service workers registered from pages router pages: #95583
  • [turbopack] Output service workers to /_next/static/: #95554
  • Reduce the size of OperationVc from 8 bytes to 4: #95614
  • Upgrade React from df4bd1b4-20260708 to 5123b063-20260708: #95642
  • Add attribute rendering benchmark: #95621
  • docs(opengraph-image): load assets at module scope to keep route static under Cache Components: #95246
  • Convert agent-041's blocking-data check to the agentic LLM judge: #95630
  • Upgrade React from 12a4baec-20260707 to df4bd1b4-20260708: #95612
  • Make the agent-rules block verifiable and self-upgrading: #95467
  • Refresh outdated agent-rules blocks on next dev and codemod upgrade: #95470
  • [ci] Split up large instant-validation tests: #95627
  • [ci] Split up large rsc-build-errors development test: #95624
  • [ci] split up large cache-components-errors tests: #95623
  • docs: update MCP guides for the thin next-devtools-mcp: #94859
  • Normalize and validate expire and revalidate values to handle Infinity and surface mistakes early: #95493
  • [ci] Bump PR stats job timeout to 35 minutes: #95592
  • [ci] Pin typescript version in tests: #95619
  • fix(create-next-app): render filenames in Geist Mono so the preloaded font is used: #95471
  • [turbopack] print Turbopack warnings after SSG: #95430
  • fix(create-next-app): pin both axes on Tailwind template logos to silence aspect-ratio warning: #95609
  • Turbopack: enable import with {type: 'text'} by default: #95606
  • Consistently gate navigation-testing-lock API on flag: #95582
  • test: Fix immutable static asset deployment tests for real: #95600
  • Upgrade React from 23def8fd-20260706 to 12a4baec-20260707: #95581
  • Split remaining "client-node"-only modules into .browser variants: #95366
  • [turbopack] Don't evict when there is little memory to save: #95213
  • align dev and build output: #94916
  • [turbopack] Don't persist if there is little work to do: #95137
  • fix: log "Partial Prefetching enabled" during next build: #95593
  • [PP] Surface URL data during prefetching as an Instant insight with rule page: #95365
  • [turbopack] Rename rscEndpoint to rscHmrEndpoint: #95538
  • [ci] Split up large create-next-app/templates/matrix test: #95555
  • Turbopack: add more context to persistence file errors: #95318
  • [ci] Split up large cache-components-dev-warmup test suite: #95553
  • Cancel a superseded Server Components HMR refresh's server-side work: #95486
  • test: Fix immutable static asset deployment tests: #95550
  • [ci] Migrate webpack tests back to arm runners: #95549
  • docs: Fix testing-adapters variable name: #95575
  • test: Use Turbopack for 'Test new and changed tests when deployed': #95552
  • test: Disable service worker deploy tests for now: #95570
  • Fix/next info experimental analyze with graph css chunking: #95542
  • ci: Bump withgraphite/graphite-ci-action: #95562
  • Run instrumentation for Node.js Middleware without Adapter: #95547
  • Propagate maxDuration to edge adapter outputs: #95118
  • [ci] Skip apt-installed dependencies in playwright install step: #95535
  • test: Fix service worker error test: #95548
  • Upgrade to swc 72 and rust-react-compiler: #95536
  • [skills] Update gh-stack skill: #95541
  • docs: updates to Cache Components Caching: #95452
  • docs: remove incorrect statement that force-cache is the default for …: #95235
  • Turbopack: add all keys to dynamic exports before sealing the object: #93334
  • Disable supportsImmutableAssets with config.output: #95521
  • turbo-persistence: skip directory fsync on Windows: #95497
  • Abort superseded Server Components HMR requests on the client: #95463
  • [ci] Add stats comment with partial stats: #95401
  • [fragment-scroll] Enable new scroll handler by default: #95378
  • Upgrade React from 3508aee6-20260702 to 23def8fd-20260706: #95532
  • fix(dev-overlay): increase fix card grid row gap to clear floating Copy prompt button: #95526
  • evals: fix false-negative regex checks with the agentic LLM judge: #95440
  • trace-viewer: Support string span ids in nextjs trace backend: #95515
  • [turbopack] Add E2E tests for service workers: #94924
  • otel: Use correct parent span for Node.js middleware: #95306
  • Fix instrumentation hook awaiting for middleware with adapters: #95357
  • [test] Unflake cache-components-dev-streaming test suite: #95466
  • Also rewrite requires in page templates with Webpack: #95446
  • Add serverComponentsHmrCancellation experimental flag: #95462
  • Avoid unnecessary rendering for validation in dev: #95394
  • fix: work around SWC compress bug: #95457
  • docs: Update FormEvent to SubmitEvent in form handling example (deprecated in React 19.2.10+): #95453
  • Update font data: #95441
  • Ignore-list internal frames whose source maps chain to original sources: #95448
  • Type resolved cacheLife profiles, dropping runtime asserts: #95428
  • Split typeof-window server requires into .browser variants: #95201
  • Collect modules with browser variants statically: #95200
  • Fix navigation getting reverted when a Server Action is in flight: #95391
  • Fix false-positive nested-cache error for a short default profile: #95373
  • Skip saving expire: 0 values in the default cache handler in prod: #95363
  • [ci] Disable mid-stack PR optimization for native PR stacks: #95427
  • Fix history push getting treated like replace when followed by refresh: #95392
  • Upgrade React from ec0fca31-20260701 to 3508aee6-20260702: #95410
  • fix(config): correctly validate cacheHandlers names: #95358
  • [ci] Actually migrate Turbopack jobs back to ARM: #95386
  • Recover from blocking routes under Instant Navigation lock when deployed: #95227
  • Make Instant Navigation Testing full-page loads work when deployed: #95222
  • Clear a resurrected instant cookie on unlock so a hard reload recovers: #95398
  • fix: handle prototype-colliding segment names in segment explorer trie: #95403
  • Prefetch links nearest the top of the document first: #95393
  • Fix metadata title dropped on soft navigation with Cache Components: #95315
  • Cache short-expire 'use cache' values across dev reloads: #95362
  • [cd] Replace the release package with our own GitHub release creation: #95352
  • [test] Enable deploy tests for the Instant Navigation Testing API suite: #95236
  • Await reused in-flight prefetch entries under Instant Navigation lock: #95301
  • [test] Park the blocking-fallback segment on a withheld param: #95300
  • Make instant() resilient to a leaked navigation-testing cookie: #95375
  • [ci] Avoid running full CI mid-stack for GH-native stacks, same as we do for Graphite: #95218
  • Remove 'silence this warning' from instant validation fix output: #95187
  • fix(turbopack): allow #/ prefixed subpath import specifiers: #94461
  • [ci] Migrate Turbopack build_and_test jobs back to arm64, leave webpack jobs as x86-64: #95374
  • Rename DYNAMIC_EXPIRE and DYNAMIC_STALE to describe what they gate: #95361
  • Upgrade React from 92f4fda3-20260629 to ec0fca31-20260701: #95368
  • Re-query deploy-test build logs until id markers appear: #95243
  • Fix early OTel proxy tracers in Cache Components prerenders: #95317
  • gitignore .next-profiles: #95256
  • Fix Navigation Inspector in Safari: #95329
  • Rename Copy as prompt to Copy prompt, convert FixOption to FixCard: #95309
  • codemod: bump eslint alongside eslint-config-next: #95314
  • docs: recommend explicit cacheLife and clarify overriding built-in cache profiles: #95311
  • test: Improve immutable static asset tests: #95349
  • Instant Navs guide: Highlights fixes and Client Component Page option: #95313
  • docs: Activity bfcacheId and :has caveats: #95275
  • [ci] Migrate some CI jobs back to x86-64, build both arm and x86-64 native binaries, include both os and architecture in native artifact names: #95341
  • [ci] Add optimize-ci, changes, and fetch-test-timings jobs to the needs list for the tests-pass job: #95339
  • [PP] Instant validation - error for unguarded static params: #94595
  • Revert "[ci] Move some test suites back to x86-64 runners to reduce pressure on our currently-limited pool of arm runners (#95332)": #95336
  • refactor: split out validateStaticShell: #95106
  • [ci] Move some test suites back to x86-64 runners to reduce pressure on our currently-limited pool of arm runners: #95332
  • [PP] Validate Shell prefetches (except gSP): #95151
  • Upgrade React from 68631c04-20260626 to 92f4fda3-20260629: #95282
  • codemod: non-interactive upgrade for agents and CI: #95312
  • Fix workers on thread to not crash with napi-rs: #95281
  • [ci] Add support for auth based preview build registries: #95204
  • [ci] Migrate build_and_test and pull_request_stats to use arm64 runners: #94870
  • Turbopack: compute code hash per use cache function: #94234
  • [test] Retry the .next deletion to fix an ENOTEMPTY flake: #95307
  • [test] Make build-output-prerender error ordering deterministic: #95308
  • fix: params/searchParams in client page crashing dev instant validation: #95289
  • [test] Unskip more Turbopack NFT unit tests: #95297
  • [test] Recover from a leftover build process on test retry in build(): #95304
  • [test] Give webpack server-action-period-hash tests a larger timeout: #95303
  • Render a code frame for build errors thrown collecting page data: #95270
  • Surface empty generateStaticParams as a redbox with a real stack: #95269
  • Turbopack: constant evaluate x in y: #95286
  • docs: remove unnecessary async from rewrites/headers/redirects examples: #95148
  • Log content-free diagnostics when a postponed state fails to parse: #95216
  • log config evaluation time: #94811
  • Turbopack: This bool could've been an enum: #95288
  • Increase the code frame width used when logging to a file.: #95283
  • [ci] update relay-compiler to 21.0.1: #95217
  • [turbopack] Discover service workers in the Turbopack analyzer: #94923
  • [turbopack] Use experimental chunking heuristics: #95026
  • [turbopack] Set chunking_heuristics on each ChunkGroupInfo: #95021
  • [turbopack] Thread chunkingHeuristics through to chunk groups: #95020
  • [turbopack] Add an experimental chunkingHeuristics to next.config.js: #95019
  • test: fork select tests on partialPrefetching: #95279
  • Add docs for experimental.turbopackRustReactCompiler: #95280
  • Fix: Update the URL when a client navigation redirects to a rewritten route: #95207
  • Turbopack: replace cssChunking graph moduleFactorCost with weightDistribution: #95088
  • Upgrade React from 247fbb45-20260622 to 68631c04-20260626: #95211
  • skills(cc-adoption): tighten requires, sequencing, terminology: #95225
  • Avoid bundling client-nodemodules used by unstable_rethrow in client-browser modules: #95196
  • fix(turbopack): dedupe filename/exportedName in server-reference-manifest worker entries: #95242
  • [ci] Display correct test commands when Cache Component test fail: #95267
  • fix: preserve repeated search params in client page segment cache keys: #94863
  • Improve typing of decodeReply: #95263
  • Turbopack: make hash_xxh3_hash128 return u128: #95232
  • [turbopack] Support undoable modifications for many field types on TaskStorage: #95180
  • Record size metrics to our compaction and persistence spans: #94977
  • Don't track modifications to transient data stored in tasks: #95133
  • fix: preserve middleware rewrite query in Pages API routes: #94905
  • Return APP_PAGE instead of PAGES for production Instant Navigation tests: #95184
  • [ci] skip Datadog git metadata upload on junit upload: #95210
  • next-dev-loop: require agent-browser >= 0.31.1: #95209
  • Bump Rust toolchain: #95205
  • docs(errors): reorder blocking-prerender-dynamic fixes to Stream, Cache, Block: #95198
  • Hard-navigate to app routes shadowed by a pages dynamic route: #95185
  • [dev overlay]: restructure Copy-as-prompt body into a step-by-step checklist: #95186
  • docs(insights): restructure error pages and link to preview docs: #95193
  • docs: fix preview message typo: #95050
  • Revert "[turbopack] Use final_read_hint in top level turbo tasks (#94712)": #95178
  • docs: update instant navs guide: #95173
  • [next-dev-loop] Fix cookies: #95177
  • Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.67 after v16.3.0-preview.5 preview release

Credits

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