✋ Thanks a lot to all the contributors and people helping us to make Nuxt.js better! ✋

This should be the last release with a breaking change before the 1.0! You can see our roadmap here.

Breaking changes

data is now asyncData for pages components, it's not asyncData which receives the context and can be asynchronous, this is to respect the vue.js methods. It also fix the mixins with data. If you used the context in your data methods, please rename them to asyncData starting from this release. See updated documentation.
Static Generated: generate.routeParams is replaced by generate.routes which has to be an array of dynamics routes called by Nuxt, see updated documentation.

Features

Nuxt.js use Vue 2.2.5 and its rendering feature for CSS, no more CSS extracted, only the strict minimum CSS is now included in every page server-rendered!
Cache for bundle with hash name are now available, combined with the build.publicPath option, it's a perfect combo for hosting your .nuxt/dist/ files on any CDN!
Use the official babel-preset-vue-app for babel default configuration (suggestion by @cj in #271). You can now write JSX directly into your Vue components, see hello-world-jsx example.
New option build.publicPath, useful to set CDN url for production deployment or changing the /_nuxt/ path if you don't like it.
New option router.mode, let's you define the vue-router mode (default to 'history') (@cj via #272)
Add ~middleware alias
We can now specify a custom layout for the layouts/error.vue component, see #172
The app template is now customisable! Read more on the app.html documentation.
nuxt build accept now a -c or --config-file option now (@PierreRambaud via #392)
New option: generate.minify to customize html-minifier options.
We can now import CSS files directly in <script>, making Nuxt.js compatible with more external libraries.

nuxt.render now always returns a Promise, even in dev mode when the build is not ready yet
Cleaner build/error outputs for terminal (@cj via #274)
Nuxt.js prefetch every code-splitted to improve the loading performance when navigating, you have nothing to do, simply upgrade and your app will be faster! (you can disable it via the nuxt.config.js with performance.prefetch: false)
We also added gzip support in production (you can disable it via the nuxt.config.js with performance.gzip)
store.replaceState(window.__NUXT__.state) is now made before importing the plugin. import store from '~store' in plugins (client-side) will have the store filled.
Add duration property in transition

When switching layout, the page component are created only once (fix #214)
extendRoutes works with generate + windows paths (fix #275)
Middleware are called from error page and the layout is respected when redirected (fix #389)