The latest Next.js news

The Next.js issue tracker had grown to 2,244 open reports, and inactivity was a poor way to decide what to close. We built an agent to research the backlog, maintainers reviewed its findings, and we closed 1,462 issues in less than a month.

Turbopack’s chunking speeds up page loads and enables sharing code across pages. We've shipped new experimental features to allow you to tune chunking for your website and to improve navigation performance on Next.js sites.

The August 2026 security release is now available. Upgrade to 16.3.3 (Active LTS) or 15.5.24 (Maintenance LTS) now to address two Critical severity vulnerabilities.

Next.js is moving the August security release forward to August 25, 2026.

• The release includes Next.js 16.3.3 and 15.5.24.
• It will address two critical severity vulnerabilities.

Next.js is preparing a scheduled security release for August 26, 2026.

• The release includes patches for Next.js 16.3 and 15.5.
• It will address one critical severity vulnerability.

With Instant Navigations in Next.js 16.3, you can build app-like experiences that respond immediately, preserve client state across navigations, and update optimistically, without giving up the benefits of Server Components.

Next.js 16.3 ships a new instant() test helper that verifies whether a navigation is instant. Using it through the next-cache-components-optimizer Skill, a coding agent wrote a failing test for each slow route in v0, applied fixes, and verified the routes, making navigations across the app instant.

Next.js 16.3 is now available. Highlights include:

• Improvements for today's apps: Up to 90% less memory in dev, plus faster builds and rendering.
• Instant Navigations: A suite of tools that brings single-page-app responsiveness to Next.js.

The first monthly security releases are now available. Upgrade to 16.2.11 (Active LTS) or 15.5.21 (Maintenance LTS) now to address 4 HIGH and 5 MEDIUM severity vulnerabilities.

Next.js is moving to a formal release process for security updates.

• We will publish security patches more regularly, and will give advance notice of these patches.
• The first new security release is expected on July 21, 2026, and will address multiple security issues.

Turbopack improvements shipping with Next.js 16.3:

• Memory Eviction: Reclaim compiler memory during long development sessions
• Persistent Cache for Builds: Reusable cache speeds up successive builds
• Rust React Compiler: Faster Rust port of the React Compiler
• import.meta.glob: Use Vite-compatible glob imports

AI improvements shipping with Next.js 16.3:

• Bundled docs through AGENTS.md: Keep agents reading the version-matched docs
• First-party Skills: Help agents drive multi-step workflows
• Agent Browser with React introspection: Drive a real browser and inspect React state from agent-browser
• Actionable errors: Fix menus and paste-ready prompts for Instant Insights
• A smaller, more focused MCP server: Build diagnostics in, knowledge base out
• Docs as Markdown: Append .md to any docs URL

Next.js 16.3 includes a new suite of tools that brings the responsiveness of client-driven SPAs to Next.js:

• Instant Navigations: Stream or Cache to make a navigation instant, or Block to opt out
• Partial Prefetching: A reusable shell per route, cached on the client so a click renders it instantly while the rest streams in

Next.js runs across platforms. 16.2 brings a stable Adapter API, shared tests, and a new model of collaboration across providers.

AI improvements shipping with Next.js 16.2:

• Agent-ready create-next-app: Scaffold AI-ready projects out of the box
• Browser Log Forwarding: Forward browser errors to the terminal for agent-powered debugging
• Dev Server Lock File: Actionable error messages when a second dev server tries to start
• Experimental Agent DevTools: Give AI agents terminal access to React DevTools and Next.js diagnostics

Turbopack improvements shipping with Next.js 16.2:

• Server Fast Refresh: Fine-grained server-side hot reloading
• Web Worker Origin: Increasing support for WASM libraries in Workers
• Subresource Integrity Support: Subresource Integrity for JavaScript files
• Tree Shaking of Dynamic Imports: Unused exports removed from dynamic import()
• Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes: Over 200 changes and bug fixes

Next.js 16.2 is now available. Highlights include:

• Faster Time-to-URL: ~400% faster next dev startup
• Faster Rendering: ~50% faster rendering
• New Default Error Page: Redesigned built-in 500 page
• Turbopack: Faster builds, SRI support, Server Fast Refresh, and 200+ bug fixes
• AI Improvements: AGENTS.md in create-next-app, browser log forwarding, and next-browser (experimental)

We've spent the past year making Next.js work better with AI coding agents. From an experimental in-browser agent to MCP integration and improved logging, we learned that the key is treating agents as first-class users and giving them visibility into what Next.js is doing.

How we built Turbopack with incremental computation to scale development and builds to massive Next.js applications.

Next.js 16.1 is now available. Highlights include:

• Turbopack File System Caching for next dev (stable)
• Next.js Bundle Analyzer (experimental)
• Easier Debugging with next dev --inspect

Two additional vulnerabilities have been identified in React Server Components: a high-severity Denial of Service (CVE-2025-55184) and a medium-severity Source Code Exposure (CVE-2025-55183). All Next.js 13.x, 14.x, 15.x and 16.x users should upgrade immediately.

A critical vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) has been identified in the React Server Components protocol that can allow remote code execution. All Next.js 15.x and 16.x users should upgrade immediately.

Next.js 16 is now available with major improvements to developer experience, routing, and caching. Highlights include:

• Cache Components: A new programming model leveraging Partial Pre-Rendering (PPR) and use cache for instant navigation.
• Turbopack (stable): Default bundler for all apps
• Turbopack File System Caching (beta): Even faster startup and compile times
• React Compiler Support (stable): Built-in integration for automatic memoization
• Enhanced Routing: Optimized navigation and prefetching
• Build Adapters API (alpha): Create custom adapters to modify the build process
• Improved Caching APIs: New updateTag(), refresh(), and refined revalidateTag()
• React 19.2: View Transitions, useEffectEvent(), <Activity/>
• Breaking Changes: Async params, image defaults, and more

Next.js 16 beta is now available with major improvements to developer experience, routing, and caching. Highlights include:

• Turbopack (stable): Default bundler for all apps
• Turbopack File System Caching (beta): Even faster startup and compile times
• React Compiler Support (stable): Built-in integration for automatic memoization
• Enhanced Routing: Optimized navigations and prefetching
• Build Adapters API (alpha): Create custom adapters to modify the build process
• Improved Caching APIs: New updateTag() and refined revalidation
• React 19.2: View Transitions, useEffectEvent(), <Activity/>
• Breaking Changes: Async params, image defaults, and more

Next.js 15.5 includes Turbopack builds in beta, stable Node.js middleware, TypeScript improvements, next lint deprecation, and deprecation warnings for Next.js 16. Highlights for this release include:

• Turbopack Builds (beta): Production turbopack builds (next build --turbopack) now in beta
• Node.js Middleware (stable): Node.js runtime support for middleware is now stable
• TypeScript Improvements: Typed routes, route export validation, and route types helpers
• next lint: Deprecation of next lint command
• Next.js 16: Deprecation warnings for Next.js 16

Next.js 15.4 includes updates to performance, stability, and Turbopack compatibility. Highlights for this release include:

• Turbopack Builds: 100% integration test compatibility for next build --turbopack
• Stability Improvements: Numerous stability and performance improvements to Next.js and Turbopack

This blog post also includes an early preview of what's coming in Next.js 16, our next major release.

Next.js 15.3 includes Turbopack for builds, new client instrumentation and navigation hooks, and more:

• Turbopack for builds (alpha)
• Community support for Rspack (experimental)
• Client Instrumentation hook
• Navigation hooks
• TypeScript plugin improvements

This guide will cover how you can build APIs with Next.js, including setting up your project, understanding the App Router and Route Handlers, handling multiple HTTP methods, implementing dynamic routing, creating reusable middleware logic, and deciding when to spin up a dedicated API layer.

Next.js 15.2 includes updates for debugging errors, metadata, Turbopack, and more:

• Redesigned error UI and improved stack traces
• Streaming metadata
• Turbopack performance improvements
• React View Transitions (experimental)
• Node.js Middleware (experimental)

We’re working on a simple and powerful caching model for Next.js. In a previous post, we talked about our journey with caching and how we’ve arrived at the 'use cache' directive.

Next.js 15.1 introduces core upgrades, new APIs, and improvements to the developer experience including:

• React 19 (stable)
• Improved Error Debugging
• after (stable)
• forbidden / unauthorized (experimental)

Frontend performance can be hard to get right. Even in highly optimized apps, the most common culprit by far is client-server waterfalls. When introducing Next.js App Router, we knew we wanted to solve this issue. To do that, we needed to move client-server REST fetches to the server using React Server Components in a single roundtrip. This meant the server had to sometimes be dynamic, sacrificing the great initial loading performance of Jamstack. We built partial prerendering to solve this tradeoff and have the best of both worlds.

Our mission to create the best developer experience continues with Next.js 15, featuring:

• @next/codemod CLI
• Async Request APIs (Breaking)
• Caching Semantics (Breaking)
• React 19
• Turbopack Dev
• Static Indicator
• unstable_after (Experimental)
• instrumentation.js (Stable)
• next/form
• TypeScript Support for next.config
• Self-hosting
• Server Actions Security
• Bundling external packages (Stable)
• ESLint 9 support
• Development and Build Performance

It's been a long road, but we are happy to announce that next dev --turbo is now stable and ready to speed up your development experience.

The Next.js 15 Release Candidate (RC) is now available. This early version allows you to test the latest features before the upcoming stable release.

• Turbopack (dev)
• Async Request APIs (breaking)
• next/form
• Self-hosting
• ESLint 9 support

The Next.js 15 Release Candidate (RC) is now available. This early version allows you to test the latest features before the upcoming stable release.

• React RC
• Caching defaults changes
• Incremental Partial Prerendering adoption
• next/after (Experimental)
• New create-next-app design
• Bundling external packages (Stable)

Next.js 14.2 includes development, production, and caching improvements.

• Turbopack (Release Candidate)
• Caching Improvements
• Build and Production Improvements
• Errors DX Improvements

Next.js 14.1 includes developer experience improvements including:

• Improved Self-Hosting
• Turbopack Improvements
• DX Improvements
• Parallel & Intercepted Routes
• next/image Improvements

As we announced at Next.js Conf, Next.js 14 is our most focused release with:

• Turbopack
  • 53% faster local server startup
  • 94% faster code updates
• Server Actions (Stable)
• Partial Prerendering (Preview)
• Next.js Learn (New)

React Server Components (RSC) in App Router is a novel paradigm that eliminates much of the redundancy and potential risks linked with conventional methods. Given the newness, developers and subsequently security teams may find it challenging to align their existing security protocols with this model.

Next.js 13.5 improves local dev performance and reliability with:

• 22% faster local server startup
• 29% faster HMR (Fast Refresh)
• 40% less memory usage
• Optimized Package Imports
• next/image Improvements
• And over 438 bugs patched!

For the next release (and coming months) we're focused on the following areas:

• Performance
• Stability
• Developer Experience

Next.js 13.4 is a foundational release, marking stability for the App Router:

• App Router (Stable)
• Turbopack (Beta)
• Server Actions (Alpha)

Next.js 13.3 adds popular community-requested features and is the last release before the App Router is stable, including:

• File-Based Metadata API
• Dynamic Open Graph Images
• Static Export for App Router
• Parallel Routes and Interception

Next.js 13.2 includes major improvements to the App Router (app) in preparation for stability:

• Built-in SEO Support
• Route Handlers
• MDX for Server Components
• Rust MDX Parser
• Improved Error Overlay
• Statically Typed Links (Beta)
• Turbopack Improvements (Alpha)
• Next.js Cache (Beta)

Next.js 13.1 includes improvements to both the pages and app directories:

• app Directory (Beta) Improvements
• Built-in Module Transpilation
• Edge Runtime (Stable)
• Turbopack Updates
• Middleware Improvements
• SWC Import Resolution

As we announced at Next.js Conf, Next.js 13 (stable) lays the foundations to be dynamic without limits:

• app/ Directory (beta)
  • Layouts
  • React Server Components
  • Streaming
• Turbopack (alpha)
• New next/image (stable)
• New @next/font (beta)
• Improved next/link

We've shipped some quality-of-life improvements to Next.js with 12.3:

• Improved Fast Refresh
• TypeScript Auto-Install
• Image Component
• SWC Minifier
• New Router + Layouts Update

We're laying the foundation for the future of Next.js with 12.2:

• Middleware (Stable)
• On-Demand ISR (Stable)
• Edge API Routes (Experimental)
• Edge SSR (Experimental)
• SWC Plugins (Experimental)
• Improvements to next/image

This RFC outlines the biggest update to Next.js since it was introduced in 2016:

• Nested Layouts: Build complex applications with nested routes.
• Designed for Server Components: Optimized for subtree navigation.
• Improved Data Fetching: Fetch in layouts while avoiding waterfalls.
• Using React 18 Features: Streaming, Transitions, and Suspense.
• Client and Server Routing: Server-centric routing with SPA-like behavior.
• 100% incrementally adoptable: No breaking changes so you can adopt gradually.
• Advanced Routing Conventions: Offscreen stashing, instant transitions, and more.

We're excited to release one of our most requested features with Next.js 12.1:

• On-demand ISR (Beta)
• Expanded Support for SWC
• next/jest Plugin
• Faster Minification with SWC (RC)
• Self-Hosting Improvements
• React 18 & Server Components (Alpha)
• Developer Survey

As we announced at Next.js Conf, Next.js 12 is our biggest release ever:

• Rust Compiler
• Middleware (beta)
• React 18 Support
• <Image /> AVIF Support
• Bot-aware ISR Fallback
• Native ES Modules Support
• URL Imports (alpha)
• React Server Components (alpha)

We're improving build performance across the entire stack with Next.js 11.1, featuring:

• Security Patch
• ES Modules Support
• Rust-based Tooling
• Faster Data Fetching
• Faster Source Maps
• ESLint Integration Improvements
• next/image Improvements

Our mission to create the best developer experience continues with Next.js 11, featuring:

• Conformance
• Improved Performance
• next/script
• next/image Improvements
• Webpack 5
• Create React App Migration (Experimental)
• Next.js Live (Preview Release)

We are excited to introduce Next.js 10.2, featuring:

• Faster Builds
• Faster Refresh
• Faster Startup
• Improved Accessibility
• More Flexible Redirects and Rewrites
• Automatic Webfont Optimization

We are excited to introduce Next.js 10.1, featuring:

• 3x Faster Refresh
• Improved Installation Time
• next/image Improvements
• Next.js Commerce Shopify Integration
• Custom 500 Page
• Strict PostCSS Configuration Loading
• Support for extends in tsconfig.json
• Detect When Preview Mode Is Enabled
• Router Methods Scroll to Top
• Documentation Improvements

Next.js has been designed for gradual adoption. With Next.js, you can continue using your existing code and add as much (or as little) React as you need. By starting small and incrementally adding more pages, you can prevent derailing feature work by avoiding a complete rewrite.

Many companies need to modernize their tech stack to reduce costs, increase developer productivity, and provide the best experience for their customers. Component-driven development has greatly improved the deployment velocity and reusability of modern codebases.

And with over 8 million downloads/month, React is the leading component-driven choice for developers. Next.js, the React framework for production, enables you to incrementally adopt React.

We are excited to introduce Next.js 10, featuring:

• Built-in Image Component and Automatic Image Optimization
• Internationalized Routing
• Next.js Analytics
• Next.js Commerce
• React 17 Support
• getStaticProps / getServerSideProps Fast Refresh
• Fast Refresh for MDX
• Importing CSS from Third Party React Components
• Automatic Resolving of href
• @next/codemod CLI
• Blocking Fallback for getStaticPaths

We are excited today to introduce Next.js 9.5, featuring:

• Stable Incremental Static Regeneration
• Customizable Base Path
• Support for Rewrites, Redirects, and Headers
• Optional Trailing Slash in URLs
• Persistent Caching for Page Bundles
• Fast Refresh Enhancements
• Production React Profiling
• Optional Catch All Routes
• Webpack 5 Support (beta)

We are excited today to introduce Next.js 9.4, featuring:

• Fast Refresh
• Incremental Static Regeneration (beta)
• CMS Examples
• New Environment Variables Support
• Improved Built-in Fetch Support
• Integrated Web Vitals Reporting
• Absolute Imports and Aliases
• Configurable Sass Support
• Improved Log Output

We are excited today to introduce Next.js 9.3, featuring:

• Next-gen Static Site Generation (SSG) Support
• Preview Mode
• Built-In Sass Support for Global Stylesheets
• Built-In Sass CSS Module Support for Component-Level Styles
• Automatic Static Optimization for 404
• 32 kB Smaller Runtime
• Next.js Community on GitHub Discussions

We are excited today to introduce the production-ready Next.js 9.2, featuring:

• Built-In CSS Support for Global Stylesheets
• Built-In CSS Module Support for Component-Level Styles
• Improved Code-Splitting Strategy
• Catch-All Dynamic Routes

Next.js 9 was released six (6) months ago, followed by Next.js 9.1 three (3) months ago. These two releases added very powerful new features to Next.js, without increasing our baseline client runtime size.

Since then, we've focused heavily on refining and improving the framework as a whole: 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, and 9.1.7.

Let's dive into what these releases have improved!

• 3% – 8%+ Smaller Client-Side JavaScript Size
• Redesigned Production Build CLI Output
• New Built-In Polyfills: fetch(), URL, and Object.assign
• Optimized Page Loading: Better FCP and TTI
• Support for the Latest JavaScript Features
• Zero-Config Deployment Support for next export Applications
• React Strict Mode Compliance and Opt-In
• Automated Testing against Nightly React Builds

We're delighted today to introduce the new Create Next App.

Create Next App sets up a modern React application powered by Next.js in one command.

Today, we are excited to announce Next.js 9.1 with src and public directory support.

New in This Release

• src Directory Support
• public Directory Support

Previewing in This Release

• Built-in CSS Support
• Static Error Pages
• Module / Nomodule
• Improved Bundle Splitting

Next.js 9.0 was released approximately two months ago. Since then, we’ve been busy with 7 smaller but quite important releases: 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, and 9.0.7.

Let’s dive into what these releases have brought to your websites and applications, with absolutely no breaking changes.

• Improved Concurrency in Windows Environments
• Gzip Compression by Default
• TypeScript Report on Active Pages Only
• Telemetry
• Improved next/head Element Tracking
• Preventing Non-Pages in the Pages Directory
• Runtime Improvements

Today, we're excited to announce Next.js 9 with TypeScript support, Dynamic Routing, API Routes, Automatic Static Optimization, and more!

• Built-in Zero-Config TypeScript Support
• File system-Based Dynamic Routing
• Automatic Static Optimization
• API Routes
• More Production Optimizations
• Improved DX

Today, we're excited to announce we've extended the Next.js experience to authoring AMP pages.

• What is AMP
• AMP in Next.js
• Hybrid AMP pages
• AMP-first pages
• AMP Validation

We are happy to introduce the production-ready Next.js 8.0.4:

• Build performance improvements
• Deterministic builds
• Smaller client runtime
• Smaller serverless functions
• Default viewport tag
• Learning guide improvements

Styled JSX is a CSS-in-JS library that allows you to write encapsulated and scoped CSS to style your components. The styles you introduce for one component won't affect other components, allowing you to add, change and delete styles without worrying about unintended side effects.

Recently Next.js 8 was introduced. The release included a massive build-time memory usage reduction. This blog post will explore how we have helped optimize webpack for the community.

We are proud today to introduce the production-ready Next.js 8, featuring:

• Serverless Next.js
• Massive build-time memory usage reduction
• Build-time environment configuration
• Prefetch performance improvements
• Smaller initial HTML size
• Improved on-demand entries
• Faster port listening in development
• Faster Static Export
• Head element deduplication
• New crossOrigin config option
• Removed inline Javascript
• Example of API Authentication

After 26 canary releases and 3.4 million downloads, we are proud to introduce the production-ready Next.js 7, featuring:

• DX improvements: 57% faster bootup, 42% faster re-compilation
• Better error reporting with react-error-overlay
• Upgraded compilation pipeline: Webpack 4 and Babel 7
• Standardized Dynamic Imports
• Static CDN support
• Smaller initial HTML payload
• React Context with SSR between App and Pages

We are proud today to introduce the production-ready Next.js 6.1, featuring:

• Increased hot reloading reliability
• Codebase improvements
• Next.js codemods

We are proud today to introduce the production-ready Next.js 6, featuring:

• Zero-configuration static exports. No need for next.config.js by default
• _app.js, an extension point that enables page transitions, error boundaries and more
• Babel 7 and Fragment syntax <> support
• Extended integration test suites with a strong focus on security
• Flow annotations in the core codebase

We are happy to introduce Next.js 5.1, which features support for environment configuration, phases, source maps, and new Next.js plugins.

We are very happy to introduce Next.js 5.0 to the world. It’s available on npm effective immediately.