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BREAKING CHANGE!: bump default images.minimumCacheTTL from 1 min to 4 hours: #84105
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Core Changes
Development: Don't import app-router / hot-reloader through next/link in application code: #83656
Remove clientParamParsing requirement from RDC for Navigations: #83661
feat(next/image)!: deprecate and warn on images.domains config: #84625
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