next 14.2.8

v14.2.8

on Node.js Yarn

What's Changed

Support esmExternals in app directory

• Support esm externals in app router (#65041)
• Turbopack: Allow client components from foreign code in app routes (#64751)
• feat(turbopack): add support for esm externals in app dir (#64918)
• Fix esm property def in flight loader (#66990)
• Revert "Fix esm property def in flight loader" (#66727)
• Fix esm property def in flight loader (#66286)
• Remove rsc esm client module extra exports (#65519)

Reading middleware cookies during render

• initialize ALS with cookies in middleware (#65008)
• fix middleware cookie initialization (#65820)
• ensure cookies set in middleware can be read in a server action (#67924)
• fix: merged middleware cookies should preserve options (#67956)

Draft mode and edge improvements

• fix: unstable_cache should not cache new result in draft mode (#67772)
• Add draft mode flag for multi-zone (#68997)
• Fix edge preview props are not matched with cookie (#67779)
• Re-land build(edge): extract buildId into environment (#65426)
• Drop edge prerender manifest (#67787)
• Ensure edge prerender-manifest is minimal (#64946)
• Freeze loaded manifests (#64313)
• Shared Revalidate Timings (#64370)

Metadata and icons

• support facebook metadata (#65713)
• Always collect static icons for all segments (#68712)
• Fix favicon merging with customized icons (#67982)
• Warn metadataBase missing in standalone mode or non vercel deployment (#66296)

Parallel routes fixes

• fix missing stylesheets when parallel routes are present (#69507)

next/image fixes

• Allow external image urls with _next/image pathname to be rendered via Image component (#69586)

Server actions improvements

• optimize server actions (#66523)
• Apply optimization for unused actions (#69178)
• Improve SWC transform ID generation (#69183)

Other changes

• Ensure we match comment minify behavior between terser and swc (#68372)
• send initialCanonicalUrl in array format to prevent crawler confusion (#69509)

Create-next-app updates

• update next-env.d.ts in examples via scripts/check-examples.sh
• [create-next-app]: add font antialiasing to templates (#67425)
• Move create-next-app public/ assets from local folder→ remote URL (#66931)
• docs: Refactor next and create-next-app CLI pages (#68899)
• fix(create-next-app): link to app dir docs in next-env.d.ts in app dir templates (#68534)
• Add typechecking test for all entrypoints (#64478)
• chore(cna): add missing period (#69021)
• feat: enable @typescript-eslint/recommended in create-next-app --typescript (#52845)
• Test lint config after first-time setup (#67146)
• [lint] Disable linting using project config for tests (#66145)
• Use classnames to set font family in Tailwind create-next-app templates (#66374)
• Update create-next-app template CSS (#66233)
• Update create-next-app template CSS (#66043)
• Update create-next-app template (#65803)

Full Changelog: v14.2.7...v14.2.8