Features

Add <no-ssr> component (from vue-no-ssr), it allows you to render component only for client-side, see example
Add process.mode to let you know in which mode your are into your application ('universal' or 'spa')
Add loading.rtl option (default false) to set the direction of the progress bar from right to left
Advanced: Plugins can inject a value into app and every vue instances, see example for more details

Improvements

Move store replaceState after plugins calls, this way, plugins can update the store before hydratation on client-side (8dca358)
Fix "Invalid character in error Message" (#437, #438, @yuchonghua)
Fix renderer: resolve handler key as option for serverMiddleware (459363b, #1274)
Rename context.hotReload to context.isHMR
build.extend can now return the new config (PR #1447, fix #1288)
Fix problem with route chunk names (#1461)
Fix asyncData with nested pages in production build (#1248)
Avoid setting babe.presets if build.babel.babelrc is true
Router base is now added to all middleware so nuxt won't conflict with other middleware (1ca5739)
Fix static import in css with alias conflict (#1435)