October 9th, 2025
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