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16.3.0

3 Aug 2026GitHub Release

Additional changes to review1Matched wording:deprecatedThese matches may be harmless in context. Expand to see the excerpts.

The changelog mentions deprecation; it may still be compatible.
Warn that experimental.useCache is deprecated: #96448
Improve error message for deprecated experimental.dynamicIO config: #92081

Core Changes

Update vendored lodash to 4.17.23 to fix CVE-2025-13465: #91558
Fix invalid HTML response for route-level RSC requests in deployment adapter: #91541
Normalize encoded dynamic placeholders in app routes: #91603
Fix(pages-router): restore Content-Length and ETag for /_next/data/ JSON responses: #90304
Update tokio from 1.43.0 to 1.47.3: #90945
[turbopack] Simplify snapshotting logic: #91178
Turbopack: enable server HMR for app route handlers: #91466
turbo-tasks-backend: batch find_and_schedule_dirty using for_each_task_meta: #91497
[turbopack] Use bail! instead of panic! for duplicate module ident error: #91636
Skip loadBindings() Lightning CSS check during next start:

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16.3.0

3 Aug 2026GitHub Release

Additional changes to review1Matched wording:deprecatedThese matches may be harmless in context. Expand to see the excerpts.

The changelog mentions deprecation; it may still be compatible.
Warn that experimental.useCache is deprecated: #96448
Improve error message for deprecated experimental.dynamicIO config: #92081

Core Changes

Update vendored lodash to 4.17.23 to fix CVE-2025-13465: #91558
Fix invalid HTML response for route-level RSC requests in deployment adapter: #91541
Normalize encoded dynamic placeholders in app routes: #91603
Fix(pages-router): restore Content-Length and ETag for /_next/data/ JSON responses: #90304
Update tokio from 1.43.0 to 1.47.3: #90945
[turbopack] Simplify snapshotting logic: #91178
Turbopack: enable server HMR for app route handlers: #91466
turbo-tasks-backend: batch find_and_schedule_dirty using for_each_task_meta: #91497
[turbopack] Use bail! instead of panic! for duplicate module ident error: #91636
Skip loadBindings() Lightning CSS check during next start:

docs: fix broken Activity Patterns demo link in preserving UI state guide: #91698
docs: post release amends: #91715
docs: use ErrorInfo type consistently in catchError docs: #91744
docs: add catchError benefits over userspace error boundaries: #91745
docs: platform portability and infrastructure documentation: #91237
docs: add verified adapters section: #91849
docs: document CSS decimal precision difference between Turbopack and webpack: #91909
[Docs] Rewrite agent rules to match bundled doc wording: #91995
docs: opengraph-image papercuts: #92018
Update revalidateTag examples to use the new two-argument signature: #92065
docs: clarify that use cache requires async functions: #92101
Move expanded adapters docs to API reference: #92115
docs: add middleware bypass note to CDN caching guide: #92132
docs: document revalidateTag's required second argument in upgrade guide: #92134
docs: local images referenced by remote source: #92178
docs: clarify id, filePath, and pathname in STATIC_FILE adapter output: #92227
Docs/adapters review: #92223
docs: vt demo guide: #92249
docs: Ask AI agents to self-identify themselves in PR descriptions: #92235
docs: add deploy tests documentation to contributing guide: #92388
docs: clarify that proxy/middleware matches static assets by default: #92441
docs: clarify serverless runtime behavior for use cache: #92232
docs: add note on React canary version to View transitions guide: #92315
docs: note PPR default in cacheComponents reference: #92378
docs: instant-navs draft, samples for build validation: #91850
docs: add middleware.mdx deprecation stub for discoverability: #92281
docs: improve blocking-route error page for params discoverability: #92359
docs: clarify cacheLife() cannot be called at module scope: #92326
docs: add note on installing server-only in data security guide: #92445
fix: replace docs/canary links with stable docs paths in error messages: #92528
docs: update details about unstable_retry() behavior: #91827
docs: link updateTag from cacheTag reference: #92379
Docs: Instant docs updates: #92515
docs: native db drivers with sync queries: #92572
docs: add Link transitionTypes version history: #92624
docs(cli): clarify that --debug-build-paths requires route group folders in paths: #92618
docs: fix broken bun.sh Nextjs documentation link: #92698
docs: add migration note for experimental cache flags to cacheComponents: #92318
docs: draftMode alignment: #92794
docs: restructure instant nav guide for clarity: #92684
docs: add documentation for no-typos ESLint rule: #92809
docs: amends to preserving-ui-state guide: #92270
docs: link Activity guide from Cache Components migration guide: #92571
docs: add guide for displaying dates without hydration flash: #92786
chore: remote apps/docs: #93041
Docs: add signed commit guidance: #93155
Turbopack: import.meta.glob docs + edge case support: #92729
docs: remove broken error-handling overlay screenshot: #93279
docs: clarify rendering flow in Server/Client interleaving example: #93381
docs: clarify proxy runtime history: #93467
Update unstable_prefetch and unstable_instant docs to reflect current API shape: #93514
docs: remove unreachable forms and mutations: #93509
docs: broken link from usePathname compat call out: #93528
docs: escape literal triple-backticks in contribution guide: #93584
docs: clarify cacheTag limit - it is per call: #93768
docs: devIndicators with usage example: #93784
docs: less aggressive AI agent hint for an experimental API: #93811
docs: fix typos and links: #92541
docs: less aggressive AI agent hint for an experimental API: #93814
docs: update agent test guidance: #93924
docs: instrumentationClientInject: #93913
docs: vocabulary-bridge rule for api-ref and guide skills: #94127
docs: rework dynamic segments intro section: #94126
docs: add next/root-params API reference: #93764
docs: ISR w/ Cache Components - experimental.partialFallbacks: #93299
docs: transpilePackages usage: #93602
docs: move isr cacheHandler callout to next steps: #94167
docs: fix code examples in getting-started guides: #93273
[feat] updated the documentation for deployment to point to new next.js Docker official guide.: #94185
docs: correct custom server optimization guidance: #94229
docs: bodySizeLimit measures raw HTTP body: #94137
docs: accuracy and pappercuts: #94299
doc: clarify rewrites execution order: #93765
docs: update draftMode guide: #94155
docs: cached functions from the client: #94301
docs: add GitHub SSH authentication guidance: #94360
docs: document Cache Components behavior for navigation hooks: #94387
instant: prompts on all fix cards, [group]-tagged CLI bullets, new docs slugs: #94017
docs: fix typos in testing.md: #94446
docs: fix typos in contribution guide: #94375
docs: correct wording and casing in turbopack tracing guide: #94469
docs: typos and errors outside docs, error, examples folders: #94472
docs: clarify next-env.d.ts regeneration: #94232
docs: add updateTag example to cacheTag page: #94508
docs: clarify use cache persistence across deploys: #93554
docs: fix onRequestError error type example: #94518
docs: move insight error pages from vercel/front to canary: #94564
[Docs] Remove unstable_instant agent hints; insights validate by default: #94577
docs: fix 'time zone' spelling in FOUC guide: #93244
docs: add pnpm installation step to module-not-found error page: #93773
instant: polish client-hook overlay wording, cards, and docs links: #94496
docs: root-params highligth fixes: #94620
docs: remove unstable_disableValidation recommendations: #94608
doc: instant navs runtime story: #93204
docs: next/root-params references on i18n guide: #94629
docs: expand the Cache Components migration guide: #94649
docs: document non-streamed bot rendering and Cache Components: #94605
docs: Route Handlers to be supported later on: #94705
[agents-md] Index bundled docs instead of downloading into .next-docs: #94719
docs: add prefetchInlining config reference: #94650
docs: tighten Partial Prefetching API references and adoption guide: #94818
docs: server actions guide: #93553
docs: fix capitalization of Server and Client Components: #94891
docs: Fix broken link to Node.js Debugging Guide: #93958
docs: fix broken Node.js inspector URL in debugging guide: #94934
docs: clarify sequential data fetching example: #94930
docs: GtK, caching with fetch is opt-in - extended to any method or header included: #94899
docs: fix typo in slot-missing-default.mdx: #94531
docs: Cache components requires Node.js runtime: #94897
docs(authentication): add Auth and streaming, fix code fences and imports: #95056
docs: add Interactive Apps guide: #94020
docs(caching): clarify generateStaticParams prebuild and recommend max for CMS: #95081
docs(cache-components): clarify allow-runtime, sync-IO and instant=false, CLS fallback: #94997
Docs/partial prefetching: #94855
docs(root-params): generateStaticParams section and CC requirement: #95073
docs: server actions guide x-refs: #95143
docs: clarify /_not-found failures and attribute reads under Cache Components: #95163
docs: expand io reference: #95147
docs: update instant navs guide: #95173
docs: fix preview message typo: #95050
docs(insights): restructure error pages and link to preview docs: #95193
docs(errors): reorder blocking-prerender-dynamic fixes to Stream, Cache, Block: #95198
Add docs for experimental.turbopackRustReactCompiler: #95280
docs: remove unnecessary async from rewrites/headers/redirects examples: #95148
docs: Activity bfcacheId and :has caveats: #95275
Instant Navs guide: Highlights fixes and Client Component Page option: #95313
docs: recommend explicit cacheLife and clarify overriding built-in cache profiles: #95311
docs: Update FormEvent to SubmitEvent in form handling example (deprecated in React 19.2.10+): #95453
docs: remove incorrect statement that force-cache is the default for …: #95235
docs: updates to Cache Components Caching: #95452
docs: Fix testing-adapters variable name: #95575
docs: update MCP guides for the thin next-devtools-mcp: #94859
docs(opengraph-image): load assets at module scope to keep route static under Cache Components: #95246
[docs] Update progressive web apps documentation for new service worker syntax: #95431
[docs] Update "Handling a Custom Service Worker" in the CRA migration docs: #95434
docs: Immutable static assets: #95348
docs: note default error/not-found UI follows OS color scheme, not app theme: #95673
docs: add incremental adoption path to Cache Components migration guide: #95325
docs: add Building guide: #94999
docs: runtime prefetching update: #95564
docs: useSearchParams example stray link: #95759
docs: Improve immutable static docs: #95752
docs: revalidateTag with expire zero, for route handlers: #95760
docs: add route-side URL data audit to the Partial Prefetching adoption guide: #95389
docs: cssChunking graph option: #95693
docs: remove experimental @next/routing note: #94903
docs: add 'Set up your editor' to the installation guide: #95928
docs: clarify layout.js nesting behavior in route groups: #95720
docs: note the :has() scaling limit in the Interactive apps guide: #95925
Include examples of static export tools & GitHub Pages template: #95929
docs: fix unstable_cache syntax error: #96002
docs: add upgrade section to installation and expand AI agents guide: #95861
docs: attribute App Shell prefetch to Partial Prefetching: #96003
docs: view transitions guide — skill section, source-audit fixes, flag-removal docs: #96097
docs(view-transitions): fix the skill install command: #96142
docs: reframe prefetching around automatic vs. controllable behavior: #95896
docs: navigation interrupts after streaming has started (notFound, forbidden, unauthorized): #95851
docs: expand and modernize the Single-Page Applications guide: #95860
docs(ai-agents): restructure as steps and close 16.2/16.3 coverage gaps: #96247
docs: document query-only href resolution and fix with-vercel-blob : #96280
doc: typegen for typedRoutes: #96296
docs: clarify instrumentation-client polyfill loading and hydration timing: #95988
docs(interactive-apps): update prefetching for unified runtime prefetching: #96302
docs: add guide and references for experimental.useOffline: #93218
docs: remove PPR adapter page from Pages Router: #96316
docs: Parallel routes, conditional rendering and auth: #96351
docs(preventing-flash): cover reconciling state : #96146
docs: modernize Next 16 upgrade AI guidance: #96314
Update PWA guide with enhanced offline support details and example links for serwist: #96360
docs: document the App Shell stale time threshold for cached content: #96312
[turbopack] Introduce documentation on experimental.turbopackChunking: #96437
docs: ISR with Cache Components and Partial Prefetching: #96526
docs: clarify first-party Skills workflows: #96495
docs: cover direct visits and client navigations in the instant() e2e example: #95803

Add .claude/skills symlink: #91616
Update tokio from 1.43.0 to 1.47.3: #90945
Restructure pr-status-triage skill: merge command into skill files: #91514
[test] Unflake "infinite streaming fetch" test: #91645
[test] Unflake deterministic build - changing deployment id test: #91646
Skip CI for agent/editor config directory changes: #91622
refactor: extract build infra and alias changes: #90422
ci: add node-stream test coverage workflow: #89861
Update Rspack production test manifest: #91635
[test] Increase retry timeouts for two flaky app-action tests: #91647
Revert "ci: add node-stream test coverage workflow (#89861)"
[test] Fix flaky url-hash tests: #91649
Add instant validation tests for parallel slot config attribution: #91656
[test] Unflake rendering indicator test & skip building indicator tests: #91650
[test] Fix edge-async-local-storage deploy test timeout & race condition: #91643
Update Rspack development test manifest: #91695
[test] Unflake use-node-streams-env-precedence test: #91733
Update Rspack production test manifest: #91694
[test] Unflake app prefetch test: #91734
Upgrade React from 3f0b9e61-20260317 to 8b2e903a-20260320: #91731
[ci] Allow "rerun failed jobs" to work up until 5 days: #91825
ci: upload adapter deploy test results: #91846
test: scope css data-url typing to fixture: #91877
ci: only upload adapter results for canary runs: #91881
Perf: Skip turning Set into Array: #91383
Perf: Move chunkloading instrumentation to separate function: #91382
Perf: Use headers object directly in checkIsOnDemandRevalidate: #91381
[test] Deflake instant-navs-devtools: #91912
test(typed-routes): fix flaky tests by increasing retry timeout: #91923
test(app-basepath): increase waitForElementByCss timeout for hard-nav test: #91920
test(interoperability): increase waitForElementByCss timeout for cross-router navigations: #91918
Upgrade React from 8b2e903a-20260320 to 3cb2c420-20260324: #91905
Upgrade React from 3cb2c420-20260324 to 9627b5a1-20260327: #92015
Upgrade React from 9627b5a1-20260327 to 74568e86-20260328: #92109
ci: relax adapter results upload gate: #92127
[test] Skip unstable_dynamicStaleTime tests due to flakiness: #92162
[test] Skip flaky segment-cache-refresh suite: #92163
Add PPR evals and fix env loading for agent-eval 0.9.5: #92063
Update Rspack development test manifest: #92142
[test] Skip flaky cached-navigations tests: #92199
[test] Skip flaky prefetch-layout-sharing suite: #92198
Add internal header security guideline to AGENTS.md: #92128
Update Rspack production test manifest: #92143
[test] Deflake allowed-dev-origins: #92211
Reapply "ci: add node-stream test coverage workflow (#89861)": #91664
Fix pr-status.js: retry on API errors and report timed-out jobs: #92205
Add view transitions eval (agent-043): #92260
ci: fix stats action: #92325
ci: remove deploy examples workflow from build-and-deploy: #92324
Update Rust toolchain to nightly-2026-04-02: #92288
fix: add AGENTS.md at package root for agent discovery: #92376
[tests]: remove unnecessary skipDeployment flags: #92423
chore: Upgrade to pnpm 10.x: #92283
Bump turborepo from 2.8.11 to 2.9.4: #92425
[test] Skip flaky client-cache.parallel-routes in production and deploy: #92195
scripts/pr-status: add reply-and-resolve-thread command: #92450
[test] Regenerate checked-in tsconfig.json files: #92455
Adding more system info to the 'initialize project' trace: #92427
CI: Update and cleanup next-stats-action, force using pnpm 10.33.0: #92475
CI: Remove unused dependencies from next-stats-action dockerfile: #92485
Upgrade swc_core 57 -> 58, swc_sourcemap 9 -> 10, swc_plugin_runner 24 -> 25: #91532
perf: use whole_app_module_graph for get_compilation_issues MCP tool: #92473
Update Rspack development test manifest: #92502
Update Rspack production test manifest: #92503
CI: Use pnpm lockfile for next-stats-action: #92488
Bundle skills/ directory into next/dist/skills: #92493
CI: Use minimumReleaseAge in pnpm workspace files: #92480
CI: Fix issue with conflicting 'engines.pnpm' field in next-stats-action: #92533
Exclude use tests from react18 testing: #92542
Fix React18 tests for unstable_io: #92543
Perf: Add fast path to isAbsoluteUrl: #91389
Perf: Don't require watchpack in production: #91387
[test] Stop using deprecated target: "es5" TypeScript compiler option: #92458
Perf: Use charCodeAt in removeTrailingSlash: #91384
Perf: Cache regex in shouldServeStreamingMetadata: #91388
[test] Ensure incomplete minimum release age isn't propagated to fixture installs: #92568
test: skip .next and other build artifacts in writeFiles filter: #92578
CI: Another attempt to fix pnpm versions for next-stats-action on canary: #92550
test: reduce writeToDisk memory test iterations to fix CI timeout: #92586
Refactor effects system: dedup/conflict detection, simplified Effect trait: #92300
fix(ci): improve Docker image cache streaming throughput and arch-awareness: #92617
CI: Download and run self-contained datadog-ci instead of using pnpm dlx or npx: #92546
Bump swc to 63.1.1: #92604
chore(turbopack): upgrade qfiler to v0.3.0-alpha.4: #92558
refactor: write pages router export files directly to server/pages/: #90018
fix(ci): improve Docker image caching and native build skip optimization: #92633
Perf: Only instrument clientComponentLoadTimes when used: #91385
Update font data: #92704
[test] Stop using baseUrl: #92469
bench: improve render pipeline benchmark reliability: #92715
bench: add A/B branch comparison workflow to BENCHMARKING.md: #92721
test: use Turborepo pack task for test isolation: #92575
chore: Bump reqwest to 0.13.2: #92713
Upgrade React from 404b38c7-20260408 to fef12a01-20260413: #92728
Revert "refactor: write pages router export files directly to server/pages/": #92733
Re-enable sccache: #92746
chore: Use from_raw_parts for ResolvedVc::deref_vec and ResolvedVc::deref_slice: #92749
Pin upload-artifact to v7.0.1 and download-artifact to v8.0.1: #92757
Fix swc wasm test on canary: #92738
Bump TypeScript to 6.0: #91257
test: Add tests for client reference side effects: #92774
refactor: remove ClientFileLogger, consolidate file logging into handleLog: #92329
pr-status: Show all participants in review thread overview: #92730
Perf: Fast path for trace() when opentelemetry is not enabled: #92678
Share native binaries via GitHub artifacts: #92758
[ci] Skip sccache on Windows runners: #92847
Update Rspack production test manifest: #92674
Update Rspack development test manifest: #92673
[ci]: add workflow to bump canary after backport: #92801
[ci] Skip Playwright system deps install on subsequent self-hosted runs: #92893
CI: Remove dead yarn support from next-stats-action: #92587
[ci] Cache passing test results so CI retries skip them: #92832
fix accidental test duplication: #92922
Refactor trace server sort to SortMode enum (execution order / value / name): #92873
Perf: Simplify static metadata handling: #92630
[ci]: fix backport sync script: #92942
Fix flake in rewrites-manual-href-as test: #92948
CI: Track SWC native binary size in PR stats comment: #92938
chore: Prune list of users in labeler json: #92984
[test] Deflake shallow-routing: #93006
New ESLint rule: no-location-assign-relative-destination: #92900
Upgrade React from fef12a01-20260413 to da9325b5-20260417: #92945
[ci]: remove unused workflow: #93064
[ci]: remove publish token in favor of OIDC: #93065
Update Rspack development test manifest: #92959
[ci] Temporary disable of sccache: #93074
Auto-generate AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md in next dev: #92910
[ci]: add environment to publishRelease flow: #93093
Adopt pnpm catalogs for devDependencies: #93071
rage-restart followup: #92591
Collapse pnpm test scripts into a single helper invocation: #93097
[tests]: fix cache-components.test.ts type error: #93113
[ci]: cleanup labeler: #93135
[ci]: switch to GitHub runners: #93164
[ci]: pin rust-musl-cross: #93176
[rust-deps] Update serde: #93196
[rust-deps] Update tracing: #93194
[ci] replace next-labeler-webhook with in-repo GitHub Action: #93080
[ci] Fix auto-label workflow: #93215
[test] Remove dead symlink: #93217
[ci] Populate GITHUB_TOKEN for auto-labeler: #93219
[ci]: move stats & CI status comment to workflow: #93220
[ci] Upload preview builds directly to Vercel Blob: #93207
[ci]: fix permissions on comment workflow: #93225
Revert "Adopt pnpm catalogs for devDependencies": #93226
[ci] Handle namespaced packages in preview builds: #93241
[ci] Create test summary comment if job immediately passes: #93236
[ci] Automatically start React sync when new react@experimental is available: #93235
[rust-deps] Update bytes, crc32fast, memchr, pin-project-lite, quote, rand, regex, ringmap, roaring: #93197
[ci]: app-based release workflow: #93245
[ci]: trigger signed release commit via API: #93285
[ci]: fix release script to not strip newlines: #93302
[ci]: Use macOS arm runner for intel builds: #93330
ci: Fix caching of test-cargo-unit: #93327
[rust-deps] Update tokio: #93195
[test] Suppress build when preparing next for cache hits: #93355
[test] Fix broken terminal output: #93357
chore: bump postcss to 8.5.10: #93288
fix a snapshot encoding error that could happen under concurrent mutation and snapshotting: #92658
Only log partytown setup error once: #93378
[test] Stop building fresh packages for every test: #93380
[test] Preserve Playwright traces on every failure: #93366
[ci] Add support for private preview builds: #93375
Fix deploy tests crashing under AI coding assistants: #93394
[ci]: remove PR creation from deploy test workflow: #93400
Upgrade to swc 65: #93325
Upgrade React from da9325b5-20260417 to f4e0d4ed-20260429: #93457
Bump @vercel/ncc: #93459
[test] Ensure target page is compiled before navigation in instant-navs-devtools: #93365
[ci] Allow configuring the base URL for preview builds: #93464
[ci] Move Turbopack, Rspack and font data workflows off of RELEASE_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN: #93455
[ci] Migrate React sync off of RELEASE_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN: #93456
[ci] Create unique preview build versions for canary previews: #93490
[ci] Ensure pnpm store cache is only filled when pnpm install runs: #93508
[ci] Remove unused setup-nextjs-build.yml workflow: #93512
Refactor: Decouple request store creation from req / res: #93499
[ci] Clarify new preview build flow: #93540
Upgrade React from f4e0d4ed-20260429 to dd453071-20260506: #93547
perf(ecmascript): shrink JsValue 64→32 bytes: #93106
[test] Pin package manager versions used: #93592
[ci] Ensure graphite_ci_optimizer fails open even if github fails to fetch the action: #93615
Cherry-pick ghsa commits to canary: #93614
[ci] Also pin first-party GH actions: #93609
CI speed improvements: #93411
Proof of concept: task eviction after snapshot for turbo-tasks-backend: #91790
Convert test/integration to isolated tests: #93247
Repo: Add gh stack skill: #93705
Fix React 18 tests: #93763
Convert tests using createNext -> nextTestSetup: #93767
Revert "[test] Skip flaky cached-navigations tests": #93798
Upgrade React from dd453071-20260506 to d5736f09-20260507: #93702
Mark .agents/skills as internal so external npx skills add hides them: #93856
Convert more tests from createNext -> nextTestSetup: #93799
[test] split og-api test suite into default and standalone variants: #93915
Add create PR skill: #93937
Enable mimalloc in benchmarks: #93388
Fix Yarn berry tests: #93962
Polish instant fix cards and validation messages: #93894
Add backport PR skill: #93973
use the action cache for passing tests: #93954
@vercel/devlow-bench: 0.3.5 → 0.4.0: #93951
[test] Prerendering HTTP access fallback pages with Cache Components: #93987
[ci] Add an TURBO_TASKS_AVAILABLE_PARALLELISM environment variable that overrides std::thread::available_parallelism callsites: #93995
ci: run Linux Playwright jobs in prebuilt Microsoft container: #93794
Upgrade rustc to nightly-2026-05-15: #94021
Update font data: #94006
[ci] Set TURBO_TASKS_AVAILABLE_PARALLELISM to 4 in most e2e tests: #93996
Add next-dev-loop and next-ppr-optimizer skills: #93943
test: migrate webdriver callers to next.browser: #93941
Fix pr-status job pagination: #94049
[Skills] Mark backport-pr and create-pr as internal: #94076
[Skills] next-dev-loop: persist login state across loops: #94105
chore: release @next/rspack-core 1.0.3: #94116
Revert "Revert "refactor: write pages router export files directly to server/pages/"": #93409
[ci] Skip installing native binaries when fetching test timings: #93593
[ci] Reserve comments for stats and tests: #93240
[ci] Fix the playwright-chromium Dockerfile: #94064
Upgrade React from d5736f09-20260507 to 75b0945b-20260526: #94131
[ci] Add an AGENTS.md for GitHub Actions: #94056
[ci] Resize tiny jobs in integration_tests_reusable.yml to use smaller machines: #93886
[ci] Explicitly disable package-manager-cache for uses of actions/setup-node: #93953
Upgrade ast-grep: #94150
[Skills] next-cache-components-optimizer: clarify private-cache scope rule: #94113
[ci] Increase TEST_CONCURRENCY from 8 to 12: #94138
Upgrade React from 75b0945b-20260526 to c0cd4d5d-20260527: #94161
[ci] Give the build cache in cache in build_and_deploy a more obvious name, not just a hash and run number: #93957
[ci] Rename GRAPHITE_TOKEN to GRAPHITE_CI_OPTIMIZER_TOKEN: #94166
[ci] Use Turbopack in non-webpack-specific e2e test jobs: #94005
[test] Add test for static metadata files and generateStaticParams: #93465
test: skip flaky instant-nav-panel tests: #94196
test: fix next-after-app-static: #94195
[ci] Update all actions/* dependencies: #94174
Replace VcStorage with real TurboTasks in tests/benches : #93955
[cd] Stop fetching all tags when searching parent tag: #94302
chore: lint-language output only warnings and errors: #94261
Disable default-case ESLint rule for type-checked TypeScript files: #94316
refactor: use named arguments for StagedRenderingController: #94345
Devirtualize the backend api inside of turbo_tasks and turbo-tasks-backend: #94007
[tests] Use snapshots in debug-build-paths: #94352
Upgrade React from c0cd4d5d-20260527 to f0dfee38-20260529: #94245
refactor: make stage advancing logic more generic: #94349
refactor: make early/late checks stricter: #94358
refactor: remove delayUntilRuntimeStage: #94350
refactor: indicate which stage is the last stage in staged prerenders: #94430
test: pin material-ui link fixture dependencies: #94354
Reland the debug channel on native Node streams, fixed for React 18: #94462
chore: reword cacheComponents jsDoc to lead with partial prerendering: #94474
Upgrade React from f0dfee38-20260529 to 43bcbf80-20260603: #94440
Revert "ci: run Linux Playwright jobs in prebuilt Microsoft container (#93794)": #94366
fix(deps): bump @vercel/nft@1.10.2: #93979
[ci] Switch release-next-rspack to a more explicit environment name: #94480
[ci] Set persist-credentials: false for all GH actions: #94214
Revert "[ci] Increase TEST_CONCURRENCY from 8 to 12 (#94138)": #94517
[ci] Disable on-call notification if manual deploy e2e tests failed: #94554
Reduce new test concurrency to five: #94552
disallow reads from .next-profiles: #94570
[ci] Remove dead playwright docker image creation logic: #94576
[cd] Ensure release can be triggered on old branches: #94596
[ci] Reduce usage of turborepo cache in build_and_deploy.yml: #94319
[ci] Download fnm directly from GitHub releases and validate checksum: #94579
[ci] Always upload canary tarballs from the canary branch: #94557
refactor: process streaming prerenders more efficiently: #94764
[ci] Allow "rerun failed jobs" to work up until 5 days for e2e deploy tests: #94812
Fix stale next data API test URL: #94815
Instruct agents to keep and commit the generated agent-rules block: #94725
Add a message to AGENTS.md about super:: imports.: #94733
chore: upgrade next-rspack to rspack 2.0: #92222
[ci] Use node-version-file when we already have a repository checkout and reduce hardcoded references to node versions: #94780
rust react compiler: detect and build for react 18: #94836
[test] Unflake metadata static routes cache test: #94796
[test] Recover from a leftover build process on test retry: #94797
Properly set response-based OTEL attributes with adapters: #94603
Upgrade React from 43bcbf80-20260603 to d9158919-20260615: #94826
[ci] Clean up references to self-hosted runners: #94827
Upgrade React from d9158919-20260615 to ad78e251-20260616: #94867
switch our test benchmark runs to release-with-assertions: #94538
[ci] Remove playwright stamp file logic: #94876
[cd] More robust publish pipeline: #94622
[cd] Continue release train if @next/swc-wasm-* fails to publish: #94912
Let LLMs create less noisy and more focused PR descriptions: #94896
[ci] Only install chromium-headless-shell and not chromium: #94882
Fix Instant Navs DevTools capture bugs and re-enable its test suite: #94866
[test] Enable metadata-streaming-config for Cache Components: #94936
Upgrade React from ad78e251-20260616 to b1786c31-20260618: #94951
[ci] Update playwright to 1.61.0: #94871
[cd] reduce size of npm metadata on publish: #94953
Upgrade to swc 70: #94814
[test] Fix failing determinism test using adapter: #95051
[scripts] Write pnpm overrides for pnpm projects in pack/patch helpers: #94747
Upgrade React from b1786c31-20260618 to 247fbb45-20260622: #95063
skill(next-dev-loop): fix --session flag, agent-browser bootstrap, --headed daemon note: #95005
skill(next-cache-components-adoption): tune skill to mention app router requirement: #95069
[skills] Mark insight-error-page and next-rspack as internal: #95070
skill(next-cache-components-adoption): clarify prereqs: #95082
[cd] publish on release tags instead of branch push: #95085
[ci] Make preview tarballs available while new Canaries are being published: #95112
[cd] add ad-hoc preview release cut from canary: #95086
[test] Reorder hmr-intercept-routes test to avoid a reload/refresh race: #95134
[ci] Make automatic native binding install opt-in: #95114
Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.66 after v16.3.0-preview.4 preview release
skill(cc-adoption): recommend next-dev-loop and add build-only path: #95122
[cd] Allow forcing a release without new commits: #95136
test: Remove unnecessary dynamic timestamp from instant-validation root layouts: #95105
Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.67 after v16.3.0-preview.5 preview release
Bump Rust toolchain: #95205
next-dev-loop: require agent-browser >= 0.31.1: #95209
[ci] skip Datadog git metadata upload on junit upload: #95210
Return APP_PAGE instead of PAGES for production Instant Navigation tests: #95184
[ci] Display correct test commands when Cache Component test fail: #95267
skills(cc-adoption): tighten requires, sequencing, terminology: #95225
Upgrade React from 247fbb45-20260622 to 68631c04-20260626: #95211
Enhance ESLint rule no-location-assign-relative-destination: #93057
test: fork select tests on partialPrefetching: #95279
[ci] update relay-compiler to 21.0.1: #95217
Increase the code frame width used when logging to a file.: #95283
[test] Give webpack server-action-period-hash tests a larger timeout: #95303
[test] Recover from a leftover build process on test retry in build(): #95304
[test] Unskip more Turbopack NFT unit tests: #95297
[test] Make build-output-prerender error ordering deterministic: #95308
[test] Retry the .next deletion to fix an ENOTEMPTY flake: #95307
[ci] Migrate build_and_test and pull_request_stats to use arm64 runners: #94870
[ci] Add support for auth based preview build registries: #95204
Upgrade React from 68631c04-20260626 to 92f4fda3-20260629: #95282
[ci] Move some test suites back to x86-64 runners to reduce pressure on our currently-limited pool of arm runners: #95332
refactor: split out validateStaticShell: #95106
Revert "[ci] Move some test suites back to x86-64 runners to reduce pressure on our currently-limited pool of arm runners (#95332)": #95336
[ci] Add optimize-ci, changes, and fetch-test-timings jobs to the needs list for the tests-pass job: #95339
[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
test: Improve immutable static asset tests: #95349
gitignore .next-profiles: #95256
Re-query deploy-test build logs until id markers appear: #95243
Upgrade React from 92f4fda3-20260629 to ec0fca31-20260701: #95368
[ci] Migrate Turbopack build_and_test jobs back to arm64, leave webpack jobs as x86-64: #95374
[ci] Avoid running full CI mid-stack for GH-native stacks, same as we do for Graphite: #95218
[test] Park the blocking-fallback segment on a withheld param: #95300
[test] Enable deploy tests for the Instant Navigation Testing API suite: #95236
[cd] Replace the release package with our own GitHub release creation: #95352
Make Instant Navigation Testing full-page loads work when deployed: #95222
[ci] Actually migrate Turbopack jobs back to ARM: #95386
Upgrade React from ec0fca31-20260701 to 3508aee6-20260702: #95410
[ci] Disable mid-stack PR optimization for native PR stacks: #95427
Collect modules with browser variants statically: #95200
Split typeof-window server requires into .browser variants: #95201
Type resolved cacheLife profiles, dropping runtime asserts: #95428
Update font data: #95441
[test] Unflake cache-components-dev-streaming test suite: #95466
evals: fix false-negative regex checks with the agentic LLM judge: #95440
Upgrade React from 3508aee6-20260702 to 23def8fd-20260706: #95532
[ci] Add stats comment with partial stats: #95401
[skills] Update gh-stack skill: #95541
Upgrade to swc 72 and rust-react-compiler: #95536
test: Fix service worker error test: #95548
[ci] Skip apt-installed dependencies in playwright install step: #95535
ci: Bump withgraphite/graphite-ci-action: #95562
test: Disable service worker deploy tests for now: #95570
test: Use Turbopack for 'Test new and changed tests when deployed': #95552
[ci] Migrate webpack tests back to arm runners: #95549
test: Fix immutable static asset deployment tests: #95550
[ci] Split up large cache-components-dev-warmup test suite: #95553
[ci] Split up large create-next-app/templates/matrix test: #95555
Split remaining "client-node"-only modules into .browser variants: #95366
Upgrade React from 23def8fd-20260706 to 12a4baec-20260707: #95581
test: Fix immutable static asset deployment tests for real: #95600
[ci] Pin typescript version in tests: #95619
[ci] Bump PR stats job timeout to 35 minutes: #95592
[ci] split up large cache-components-errors tests: #95623
[ci] Split up large rsc-build-errors development test: #95624
[ci] Split up large instant-validation tests: #95627
Refresh outdated agent-rules blocks on next dev and codemod upgrade: #95470
Make the agent-rules block verifiable and self-upgrading: #95467
Upgrade React from 12a4baec-20260707 to df4bd1b4-20260708: #95612
Convert agent-041's blocking-data check to the agentic LLM judge: #95630
Add attribute rendering benchmark: #95621
Upgrade React from df4bd1b4-20260708 to 5123b063-20260708: #95642
(TypeScript 7 Support) Add experimental TypeScript CLI backend: #95639
test: allow-runtime breaks Link's Server component child detection: #95596
test: skip redbox check in "static prefetch - missing suspense around search params": #95670
refactor: remove unnecessary switches from StagedRenderingController: #95383
Clarify AI-assisted contribution policy in PR template and AGENTS.md: #95629
[test] Disable middleware-rewrites deploy test for Turbopack with adapters: #95680
Update font data: #95725
[test] Disable i18n-api-support deploy test for Turbopack with adapters: #95739
Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.84 after v16.3.0-preview.6 preview release
Upgrade to swc 73: #95731
Add React sync development skill: #95620
Upgrade React from 5123b063-20260708 to 7023f501-20260714: #95782
Better support the CLI spinner when running the TSC CLI: #95753
Only track pending imports for real promises: #95789
Model async userland loading in app routes as a state machine: #95791
chore: Remove stale build warning: #95813
[ci] Allow running all deploy tests with builds from a private registry: #95784
Run more test suites under cacheComponents flag: #95878
Revert "Run more test suites under cacheComponents flag": #95884
fix(agent-rules): pad managed AGENTS.md block with blank lines: #95892
Back/forward set the Nav Inspector back to pending: #95865
[ci] Avoid apt-get in the next-stats-action Docker image: #95847
Package skills/ as a Claude Code plugin: #95907
Upgrade React from 7023f501-20260714 to 172742b4-20260716: #95901
Run Rust doctests in CI: #95911
[ci] Share a single browser instance across all test suites in a single job: #95589
[test] Add coverage for throwing custom "use cache" cache handler: #95984
Refine development validation signal handling: #95998
[ci] Skip passed-tests cache steps for jobs that never run tests: #96001
Upgrade React from 172742b4-20260716 to 81e442ea-20260721: #96016
Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.92 after v16.3.0-preview.7 preview release
chore(deps): bump sharp@0.35.3: #95507
[ci] Enforce minimumReleaseAge in e2e tests that install external dependencies: #95628
Rewrite next-cache-components-optimizer around a test-driven instant() loop: #94721
Always consult npm_config_user_agent first: #95879
Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.93 after v16.3.0-preview.8 preview release
[test] Add source-mapping coverage of React's fake stack frame scripts in use cache: #95945
[test] Add failing tests for stale route handler and page cached data: #96021
[test] Move the dev-only use cache test suite to test/development: #96023
Refine Cache Components and Partial Prefetching adoption skills: #95817
skill(cc-adoption): add dev-only validation sweep reference: #96057
Upgrade React from 81e442ea-20260721 to 711c445b-20260722: #96066
Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.94 after v16.3.0-preview.9 preview release
Throw when generateStaticParams returns invalid values: #95968
Throw for empty or incomplete generateStaticParams results with output: export: #95969
Upgrade React from 711c445b-20260722 to 28cd4bb0-20260723: #96100
Store RouteTree slots in a Map to keep slot access monomorphic: #96168
Give RouteCacheEntry a single hidden class across its lifecycle: #96164
[test] Unflake the enabled-features-trace test suite: #96175
Add a benchmark for dev Cache Components validation on a worker thread: #96152
[internal] Add a skill for benching changes in a sandbox: #95943
[test] Unflake a prefetch-related race: #96222
[test] Run more test suites under cacheComponents flag, again: #96196
[test] Run the navigation e2e suite under cacheComponents: #95877
[test] Unflake more tests: #96081
Upgrade React from 28cd4bb0-20260723 to 756fdd47-20260727: #96270
Micro-optimization for string format: #95774
Count URL key length in the filesystem route cache LRU: #96229
Count key length in remaining byte-budgeted LRUs: #96231
Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.99 after v16.3.0-preview.10 preview release
Isolate local Request Insights spans from OpenTelemetry: #96276
Classify Instant Insights as internal in Request Insights: #96147
Upgrade React from 756fdd47-20260727 to 96fcba90-20260728: #96306
[ci] Install Node.js from the official tarball in the native-builder image: #96298
[cd] Send Slack notification if publish fails: #96304
Bump @types/node to 20.17.7 to fix findSourceMap type: #96321
[ci] Background some steps in build_reusable to reduce setup overhead, remove unneeded lld installation: #96195
Update skills for Partial Prefetching: #96299
Added cache copying support for worktrees: #95646
Bump postcss to 8.5.23: #96107
[ci] Match the test job summary style to the PR test report comment: #95882
test: reproduce empty parallel route scroll regression: #96323
Upgrade React from 96fcba90-20260728 to 1724e9ce-20260729: #96355
Upgrade React from 1724e9ce-20260729 to 6cb4322d-20260729: #96389
[bench skill] Bench Edge builds of React too: #96234
test: expand Cache Components metadata streaming coverage: #96366
Upgrade React from 6cb4322d-20260729 to 0f42eac2-20260730: #96402
Update Rust toolchain to nightly-2026-07-29: #96365
Upgrade React from 0f42eac2-20260730 to cbb046ab-20260731: #96434
[ci] Run new/changed deploy tests asap: #96438
[react-sync] Enable auto-merge on PRs: #96442
Add automated code review workflow: #96359
test: stabilize after() deploy revalidation checks: #96428
[turbotrace] bump test version of sharp: #96386
[ci] Wait for the preview tarballs before running the deploy tests: #96527
test: skip hybrid not-found coverage for the legacy builder: #96534
Flag newly disabled deploy tests: #96505
Fix deploy test TypeScript exclusions: #96545
[turbopack / next.js] Add an end-to-end test for new root detection: #96544
Edits to turbopackFileSystemCache: #96531

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