v4.1.2

4.1.2 is a regularly scheduled patch release.

✅ Upgrading

Our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

npx nuxt upgrade --dedupe

This will deduplicate your lockfile as well, and help ensure that you pull in updates from other dependencies that Nuxt relies on, particularly in the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🔥 Performance

• kit: Do not normalise templates in loop if dst is present (#33200)
• nuxt: Remove watcher from hydrate-when lazy hydration strategy (#33199)
• nuxt,schema: Normalise components + directories more efficiently (#33207)
• kit,nuxt: Reduce unnecessary iteration in nuxt code (#33212)
• nuxt: Skip running lazy hydration transform with filter (#33213)

🩹 Fixes

• schema: Add pkg-types to dependencies (9fe2541ca)
• nuxt: Ignore errors when treeshaking composables within other composables (f99eac516)
• nuxt: Do not tree-shake composables within other composables (#33153)
• kit: Ensure module dependencies are typed correctly (4568e8451)
• nuxt: Prevent Infinity backgroundSize in loading indicator (#33211)
• nuxt: Remove unused enabled from components dir options (#32844)
• nuxt: Sync watch request in useAsyncData (#33192)
• nuxt: Move key imports logic after all modules run (#33214)

📖 Documentation

• Update reference to source dir (65712297a)
• Update language on bridge head migration (c9d986889)
• Update file path for pinia store (#33205)
• Add app/ suffix to a few links (#33217)

🏡 Chore

• Dedupe lockfile (d054c90d9)
• Suppress htmlnano type error (ff2e77809)
• nuxt: Unpin tinyglobby (b9ec6507b)

✅ Tests

• Update bundle size test (4d9feb00d)

❤️ Contributors

• Julien Huang (@huang-julien)
• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Adrien Foulon (@Tofandel)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Антон Стасюк (@11Alone11)
• wuiyang (@wuiyang)
• Revadike (@Revadike)

v3.19.2

3.19.2 is a regularly scheduled patch release.

✅ Upgrading

Our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

npx nuxt upgrade --dedupe

This will deduplicate your lockfile as well, and help ensure that you pull in updates from other dependencies that Nuxt relies on, particularly in the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🔥 Performance

• kit: Do not normalise templates in loop if dst is present (#33200)
• nuxt: Remove watcher from hydrate-when lazy hydration strategy (#33199)
• nuxt,schema: Normalise components + directories more efficiently (#33207)
• kit,nuxt: Reduce unnecessary iteration in nuxt code (#33212)
• nuxt: Skip running lazy hydration transform with filter (#33213)

🩹 Fixes

• schema: Add pkg-types to dependencies (a6e5dd756)
• nuxt: Ignore errors when treeshaking composables within other composables (e3e42ac77)
• nuxt: Do not tree-shake composables within other composables (#33153)
• kit: Ensure module dependencies are typed correctly (ea16d182a)
• nuxt: Prevent Infinity backgroundSize in loading indicator (#33211)
• nuxt: Remove unused enabled from components dir options (#32844)
• nuxt: Sync watch request in useAsyncData (#33192)
• nuxt: Move key imports logic after all modules run (#33214)

📖 Documentation

• Update language on bridge head migration (32e76f609)

🏡 Chore

• nuxt: Unpin tinyglobby (1811db080)

❤️ Contributors

• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Adrien Foulon (@Tofandel)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Антон Стасюк (@11Alone11)
• wuiyang (@wuiyang)

v4.1.1

v4.1.1 is a regularly scheduled patch release

✅ Upgrading

Our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

npx nuxt upgrade --dedupe

This will deduplicate your lockfile as well, and help ensure that you pull in updates from other dependencies that Nuxt relies on, particularly in the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Correct relative path of auto imported components (#33122)
• nuxt: Prefer accessing globalThis over window (#33125)
• nuxt: Migrate to AST-aware tree-shaking + route injection (#33128)
• nuxt: Ignore #components import mapping inside packages that use it internally (#33049)
• vite: Remove explicit vite-node configuration of deps.inline (#33133)
• nuxt: Include trace in dev-time useRoute usage warning (#33039)
• kit: Improve DX by displaying module name when possible (#33137)
• nuxt: Print route middleware path in warning (#33136)
• nuxt: Include core auto-imports from imports:sources in override warning (#33050)
• nuxt: Render relative importmap entry path if required (#33146)

📖 Documentation

• Add -- to bun create command (5e661f0ca)
• Add app/ prefix in lots of cases (#33117)
• Add JSDoc for navigateTo (#21442)

🏡 Chore

• Correct rou3 github url (#33130)
• Include .ts extension (db9d840e1)
• Build before releasing (25f9282a4)

🤖 CI

• Remove default discord reactions from thread (more noise than it's worth) (183913fe2)
• Rewrite release workflow in ts + support multiple tags (4469ead82)
• Pass correct flag (711037cda)
• Pass tag via env variable (fb83cd5ba)
• Drop 4x tags from releases (1cd8a6857)

❤️ Contributors

• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Bobbie Goede (@BobbieGoede)
• Sébastien Chopin (@atinux)
• Octavio Araiza (@8ctavio)
• Michael Brevard (@GalacticHypernova)
• abeer0 (@iiio2)
• 山吹色御守 (@KazariEX)

v3.19.1

v3.19.1 is a regularly scheduled patch release

✅ Upgrading

Our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

npx nuxt upgrade --dedupe

This will deduplicate your lockfile as well, and help ensure that you pull in updates from other dependencies that Nuxt relies on, particularly in the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Correct relative path of auto imported components (#33122)
• nuxt: Prefer accessing globalThis over window (#33125)
• nuxt: Migrate to AST-aware tree-shaking + route injection (#33128)
• nuxt: Ignore #components import mapping inside packages that use it internally (#33049)
• vite: Remove explicit vite-node configuration of deps.inline (#33133)
• nuxt: Include trace in dev-time useRoute usage warning (#33039)
• nuxt: Print route middleware path in warning (#33136)
• nuxt: Include core auto-imports from imports:sources in override warning (#33050)
• nuxt: Render relative importmap entry path if required (#33146)

📖 Documentation

• Add documentation for module lifecycle hooks (#33115)
• Add -- to bun create command (ab6aa8ee5)
• Add JSDoc for navigateTo (#21442)

🏡 Chore

• Correct rou3 github url (#33130)
• Include .ts extension (2c905f864)

✅ Tests

• Bump bundle size (15564deb9)
• Remove app/ prefix for tree-shaken composables (06ea91705)

🤖 CI

• Remove default discord reactions from thread (more noise than it's worth) (2e3c91e0c)
• Rewrite release workflow in ts + support multiple tags (478c64342)
• Pass correct flag (a954f383f)
• Pass tag via env variable (dcfc82688)
• Drop 4x tags from releases (e3aa50d11)

❤️ Contributors

• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Bobbie Goede (@BobbieGoede)
• Octavio Araiza (@8ctavio)
• Michael Brevard (@GalacticHypernova)
• abeer0 (@iiio2)
• 山吹色御守 (@KazariEX)

v4.1.0

👀 Highlights

🔥 Build and Performance Improvements

🍫 Enhanced Chunk Stability

Build stability has been significantly improved with import maps (#33075). This prevents cascading hash changes that could invalidate large portions of your build when small changes are made:

<!-- Automatically injected import map -->
<script type="importmap">{"imports":{"#entry":"/_nuxt/DC5HVSK5.js"}}</script>

By default, JS chunks emitted in a Vite build are hashed, which means they can be cached immutably. However, this can cause a significant issue: a change to a single component can cause every hash to be invalidated, massively increasing the chance of 404s.

In short:

1. a component is changed slightly - the hash of its JS chunk changes
2. the page which uses the component has to be updated to reference the new file name
3. the entry now has its hash changed because it dynamically imports the page
4. every other file which imports the entry has its hash changed because the entry file name is changed

Obviously this wasn't optimal. With this new feature, the hash of (otherwise) unchanged files which import the entry won't be affected.

This feature is automatically enabled and helps maintain better cache efficiency in production. It does require native import map support, but Nuxt will automatically disable it if you have configured vite.build.target to include a browser that doesn't support import maps.

And of course you can disable it if needed:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  experimental: {
    entryImportMap: false
  }
})

🦀 Experimental Rolldown Support

Nuxt now includes experimental support for rolldown-vite (#31812), bringing Rust-powered bundling for potentially faster builds.

To try Rolldown in your Nuxt project, you need to override Vite with the rolldown-powered version since Vite is a dependency of Nuxt. Add the following to your package.json:

npm:

{
  "overrides": {
    "vite": "npm:rolldown-vite@latest"
  }
}

pnpm:

{
  "pnpm": {
    "overrides": {
      "vite": "npm:rolldown-vite@latest"
    }
  }
}

yarn:

{
  "resolutions": {
    "vite": "npm:rolldown-vite@latest"
  }
}

bun:

{
  "overrides": {
    "vite": "npm:rolldown-vite@latest"
  }
}

After adding the override, reinstall your dependencies. Nuxt will automatically detect when Rolldown is available and adjust its build configuration accordingly.

For more details on Rolldown integration, see the Vite Rolldown guide.

Note

This is experimental and may have some limitations, but offers a glimpse into the future of high-performance bundling in Nuxt.

🧪 Improved Lazy Hydration

Lazy hydration macros now work without auto-imports (#33037), making them more reliable when component auto-discovery is disabled:

<script setup>
// Works even with components: false
const LazyComponent = defineLazyHydrationComponent(
  'visible',
  () => import('./MyComponent.vue')
)
</script>

This ensures that components that are not "discovered" through Nuxt (e.g., because components is set to false in the config) can still be used in lazy hydration macros.

📄 Enhanced Page Rules

If you have enabled experimental extraction of route rules, these are now exposed on a dedicated rules property on NuxtPage objects (#32897), making them more accessible to modules and improving the overall architecture:

// In your module
nuxt.hook('pages:extend', pages => {
  pages.push({
    path: '/api-docs',
    rules: { 
      prerender: true,
      cors: true,
      headers: { 'Cache-Control': 's-maxage=31536000' }
    }
  })
})

The defineRouteRules function continues to work exactly as before, but now provides better integration possibilities for modules.

🚀 Module Development Enhancements

🪾 Module Dependencies and Integration

Modules can now specify dependencies and modify options for other modules (#33063). This enables better module integration and ensures proper setup order:

export default defineNuxtModule({
  meta: {
    name: 'my-module',
  },
  moduleDependencies: {
    'some-module': {
      // You can specify a version constraint for the module
      version: '>=2',
      // By default moduleDependencies will be added to the list of modules 
      // to be installed by Nuxt unless `optional` is set.
      optional: true,
      // Any configuration that should override `nuxt.options`.
      overrides: {},
      // Any configuration that should be set. It will override module defaults but
      // will not override any configuration set in `nuxt.options`.
      defaults: {}
    }
  },
  setup (options, nuxt) {
    // Your module setup logic
  }
})

This replaces the deprecated installModule function and provides a more robust way to handle module dependencies with version constraints and configuration merging.

🪝 Module Lifecycle Hooks

Module authors now have access to two new lifecycle hooks: onInstall and onUpgrade (#32397). These hooks allow modules to perform additional setup steps when first installed or when upgraded to a new version:

export default defineNuxtModule({
  meta: {
    name: 'my-module',
    version: '1.0.0',
  },

  onInstall(nuxt) {
    // This will be run when the module is first installed
    console.log('Setting up my-module for the first time!')
  },

  onUpgrade(inlineOptions, nuxt, previousVersion) {
    // This will be run when the module is upgraded
    console.log(`Upgrading my-module from v${previousVersion}`)
  }
})

The hooks are only triggered when both name and version are provided in the module metadata. Nuxt uses the .nuxtrc file internally to track module versions and trigger the appropriate hooks. (If you haven't come across it before, the .nuxtrc file should be committed to version control.)

Tip

This means module authors can begin implementing their own 'setup wizards' to provide a better experience when some setup is required after installing a module.

🙈 Enhanced File Resolution

The new ignore option for resolveFiles (#32858) allows module authors to exclude specific files based on glob patterns:

// Resolve all .vue files except test files
const files = await resolveFiles(srcDir, '**/*.vue', {
  ignore: ['**/*.test.vue', '**/__tests__/**']
})

📂 Layer Directories Utility

A new getLayerDirectories utility (#33098) provides a clean interface for accessing layer directories without directly accessing private APIs:

import { getLayerDirectories } from '@nuxt/kit'

const layerDirs = await getLayerDirectories(nuxt)
// Access key directories:
// layerDirs.app        - /app/ by default
// layerDirs.appPages   - /app/pages by default
// layerDirs.server     - /server by default
// layerDirs.public     - /public by default

✨ Developer Experience Improvements

🎱 Simplified Kit Utilities

Several kit utilities have been improved for better developer experience:

• addServerImports now supports single imports (#32289):

// Before: required array
addServerImports([{ from: 'my-package', name: 'myUtility' }])

// Now: can pass directly
addServerImports({ from: 'my-package', name: 'myUtility' })

🔥 Performance Optimizations

This release includes several internal performance optimizations:

• Improved route rules cache management (#32877)
• Optimized app manifest watching (#32880)
• Better TypeScript processing for page metadata (#32920)

🐛 Notable Fixes

• Improved useFetch hook typing (#32891)
• Better handling of TypeScript expressions in page metadata (#32902, #32914)
• Enhanced route matching and synchronization (#32899)
• Reduced verbosity of Vue server warnings in development (#33018)
• Better handling of relative time calculations in <NuxtTime> (#32893)

✅ Upgrading

As usual, our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

npx nuxt upgrade --dedupe

This will refresh your lockfile and pull in all the latest dependencies that Nuxt relies on, especially from the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🚀 Enhancements

• kit: Add ignore option to resolveFiles (#32858)
• kit: Add onInstall and onUpgrade module hooks (#32397)
• nuxt,vite: Add experimental support for rolldown-vite (#31812)
• nuxt: Extract defineRouteRules to page rules property (#32897)
• nuxt,vite: Use importmap to increase chunk stability (#33075)
• nuxt: Lazy hydration macros without auto-imports (#33037)
• **kit,...

v3.19.0

👀 Highlights

Please see the release notes for Nuxt v4.1 for full details on the features and fixes in Nuxt v3.19.

✅ Upgrading

As usual, our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

npx nuxt upgrade --dedupe

This will refresh your lockfile and pull in all the latest dependencies that Nuxt relies on, especially from the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🚀 Enhancements

• kit: Add ignore option to resolveFiles (#32858)
• kit: Add onInstall and onUpgrade module hooks (#32397)
• nuxt,vite: Add experimental support for rolldown-vite (#31812)
• nuxt: Extract defineRouteRules to page rules property (#32897)
• nuxt,vite: Use importmap to increase chunk stability (#33075)
• nuxt: Lazy hydration macros without auto-imports (#33037)
• kit,nuxt,schema: Allow modules to specify dependencies (#33063)
• kit,nuxt: Add getLayerDirectories util and refactor to use it (#33098)

🔥 Performance

• nuxt: Clear inline route rules cache when pages change (#32877)
• nuxt: Stop watching app manifest once a change has been detected (#32880)

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Handle satisfies in page augmentation (#32902)
• nuxt: Type response in useFetch hooks (#32891)
• nuxt: Add TS parenthesis and as expression for page meta extraction (#32914)
• nuxt: Use correct unit thresholds for relative time (#32893)
• nuxt: Handle uncached current build manifests (#32913)
• kit: Resolve directories in resolvePath and normalize file extensions (#32857)
• schema,vite: Bump requestTimeout + allow configuration (#32874)
• nuxt: Deep merge extracted route meta (#32887)
• nuxt: Do not expose app components until fully resolved (#32993)
• kit: Only exclude node_modules/ if no custom srcDir (#32987)
• nuxt: Compare final matched routes when syncing route object (#32899)
• nuxt: Make vue server warnings much less verbose in dev mode (#33018)
• schema: Allow disabling cssnano/autoprefixer postcss plugins (#33016)
• kit: Ensure local layers are prioritised alphabetically (#33030)
• kit,nuxt: Expose global types to vue compiler (#33026)
• nuxt: Support config type inference for defineNuxtModule().with() (#33081)
• nuxt: Search for colliding names in route children (31a9282c2)
• nuxt: Delete nuxtApp._runningTransition on resolve (#33025)
• nuxt: Add validation for nuxt island reviver key (#33069)
• kit: Prioritise local layers over extended layers (ae8b0d2b8)
• kit: Address merge conflict (89ccbbebb)
• kit: Do not resolve public dir aliases (5d87d3a80)

💅 Refactors

• nuxt: Simplify page segment parsing (#32901)
• nuxt: Remove unnecessary async/await in afterEach (#32999)
• vite: Simplify inline chunk iteration (9ea90fc33)
• kit,nuxt,ui-templates,vite: Address deprecations + improve regexp perf (#33093)

📖 Documentation

• Add a section about augmenting types with TS project references (#32843)
• Switch example to use vitest projects (#32863)
• Update testing setupTimeout and add teardownTimeout (#32868)
• Add middleware to layers guide (fa516d440)
• Add documentation for --nightly command (#32907)
• Update package information in roadmap section (#32881)
• Add more info about nuxt spa loader element attributes (#32871)
• Correct filename in example (#33000)
• Add more information about using useRoute and accessing route in middleware (#33004)
• Avoid variable shadowing in locale example (#33031)

🏡 Chore

• Remove stray test file (42fd247a4)
• Ignore webpagetest.org when scanning links (cb18f4960)
• Add type: 'module' in playground (#33099)

✅ Tests

• Add failing test for link component duplication (#32792)
• Simplify module hook tests (#32950)
• Refactor stubbing of import.meta.dev (#33023)
• Use findWorkspaceDir rather than relative paths to repo root (c4c3ada96)
• Improve router test for global transitions (7e6a6fc35)
• Use expect.poll (f4354203a)
• Use expect.poll instead of expectWithPolling (15ca5be95)
• Use vi.waitUntil instead of custom retry logic (4c8c13090)
• Update test for app creation (9a3b44515)
• Update bundle size snapshot (76988ce97)

🤖 CI

• Remove double set of tests for docs prs (14c006ac4)
• Add workflow for discord team discussion threads (f14854fc3)
• Fix some syntax issues with discord + github integrations (c059f7cd1)
• Use token for adding issue to project (51661bac3)
• Use discord bot to create thread automatically (37f9eb27b)
• Only use discord bot (38ce2dcbb)
• Update format of discord message (0047b3059)
• Try bolding entire line (6e9f40eb9)
• Oops (8b044cad2)
• Add delay after adding each reaction (37b7e2108)
• Use last lts node version for testing (98719c065)
• Try npm trusted publisher (ea33502c3)
• Use npm trusted publisher for main releases (31a55437f)
• Change wording (#32979)
• Add github ai moderator (#33077)

❤️ Contributors

• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• abeer0 (@iiio2)
• Julien Huang (@huang-julien)
• kyumoon (@kyumoon)
• Alexander Lichter (@TheAlexLichter)
• Bobbie Goede (@BobbieGoede)
• mustafa60x (@mustafa60x)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Alex Liu (@Mini-ghost)
• Amitav Chris Mostafa (@semibroiled)
• Romain Hamel (@romhml)
• Jacky Lam (@jackylamhk)
• Mukund Shah (@mukundshah)
• Luke Nelson (@luc122c)
• letianpailove (@letianpailove)
• Erwan Jugand (@erwanjugand)
• Alexander (@TheColorman)
• Ryota Watanabe (@wattanx)
• Yizack Rangel (@Yizack)

v4.0.3

4.0.3 is a regularly scheduled patch release.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🔥 Performance

• kit: Get absolute path from tinyglobby in resolveFiles (#32846)

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Do not throw undefined error variable (#32807)
• vite: Include tsconfig references during typeCheck (#32835)
• nuxt: Add sourcemap path transformation for client builds (#32313)
• nuxt: Add warning for lazy-hydration missing prefix (#32832)
• nuxt: Trigger call once navigation even when no suspense (#32827)
• webpack: Handle null result from webpack call (84816d8a1)
• kit,nuxt: Use reverseResolveAlias for better errors (#32853)

📖 Documentation

• Fix publicDir alias (#32841)
• Mention bun.lock for lockfile (#32820)
• Add a section about augmenting types with TS project references (#32843)
• Improve explanation of global middleware (#32855)

🏡 Chore

• Update reproduction help text links (#32803)
• Update pnpm ignored build scripts (#32849)
• Improve internal types (052b98a35)

✅ Tests

• Move tests for defineNuxtComponent out of e2e test (#32848)

🤖 CI

• Move nightly releases into different concurrency group (664041be7)

❤️ Contributors

• RDistinct (@RDistinct)
• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Oskar Lebuda (@OskarLebuda)
• Peter Budai (@peterbud)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Damian Głowala (@DamianGlowala)
• Bobbie Goede (@BobbieGoede)
• Robin (@OrbisK)
• abeer0 (@iiio2)
• Julien Huang (@huang-julien)

v3.18.1

3.18.1 is a regularly scheduled patch release.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🔥 Performance

• kit: Get absolute path from tinyglobby in resolveFiles (#32846)

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Do not throw undefined error variable (#32807)
• vite: Include tsconfig references during typeCheck (#32835)
• nuxt: Add sourcemap path transformation for client builds (#32313)
• nuxt: Add warning for lazy-hydration missing prefix (#32832)
• nuxt: Trigger call once navigation even when no suspense (#32827)
• webpack: Handle null result from webpack call (65aa17158)
• kit,nuxt: Use reverseResolveAlias for better errors (#32853)

📖 Documentation

• Update nightly version references (#32776)
• Improve explanation of global middleware (#32855)

🏡 Chore

• Update reproduction help text links (#32803)
• Update pnpm ignored build scripts (#32849)
• Improve internal types (f271c66c4)

✅ Tests

• Move tests for defineNuxtComponent out of e2e test (#32848)

🤖 CI

• Move nightly releases into different concurrency group (26f9baa6a)

❤️ Contributors

• RDistinct (@RDistinct)
• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Oskar Lebuda (@OskarLebuda)
• Peter Budai (@peterbud)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Damian Głowala (@DamianGlowala)
• Bobbie Goede (@BobbieGoede)
• Robin (@OrbisK)
• Bobby (@xanzhu)

v4.0.2

4.0.2 is the next patch release.

Timetable: 28 July.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Provide typed slots for <ClientOnly> and <DevOnly> (#32707)
• kit,nuxt,schema: Add trailing slash to some dir aliases (#32755)
• nuxt: Constrain global defineAppConfig type (#32760)
• kit: Include module types in app context (#32758)
• nuxt: Include source base url for remote islands (#32772)
• vite: Use vite node server to transform requests (#32791)
• kit: Use mlly to parse module paths (#32386)
• nuxt: Execute all plugins after error rendering error.vue (#32744)

📖 Documentation

• Update Nuxt installation command to use npm create nuxt@latest (#32726)
• Add AI-assisted contribution guidelines (#32725)
• Hydration best practice (#32746)
• Add example for module .with() (#32757)
• Replace dead Vue Router docs links (#32779)
• Update nightly version references (#32776)

🏡 Chore

• Update reproduction links for bug-report template (#32722)
• Update unbuild and use absolute path in dev stubs (#32759)

✅ Tests

• Ignore vue module.exports export (c4317e057)

🤖 CI

• Release pkg.pr.new for main/3.x branches as well (b0f289550)
• Apply 3x tag to latest v3 release (5f6c27509)

❤️ Contributors

• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Bobbie Goede (@BobbieGoede)
• Damian Głowala (@DamianGlowala)
• Bobby (@xanzhu)
• Dog (@dgxo)
• Julien Huang (@huang-julien)
• Stephen Jason Wang (@stephenjason89)
• Mateleo (@Mateleo)
• Robin (@OrbisK)
• Alex Liu (@Mini-ghost)

v3.18.0

3.18.0 is the next minor release.

👀 Highlights

A huge thank you to everyone who's been a part of this release, which is mostly about backporting features + bugfixes from Nuxt v4.

Over the next six months, we'll continue backporting compatible v4 features and bug fixes, so please keep the feedback coming! ❤️

🧪 Lazy Hydration Macros

Building on the delayed hydration support from v3.16, we now support lazy hydration macros (#31192)! These provide a more ergonomic way to control component hydration:

<script setup lang="ts">
const LazyHydrationMyComponent = defineLazyHydrationComponent(
  'visible',
  () => import('./components/MyComponent.vue')
)
</script>
<template>
  <div>
    <!-- 
      Hydration will be triggered when
      the element(s) is 100px away from entering the viewport.
    -->
    <LazyHydrationMyComponent :hydrate-on-visible="{ rootMargin: '100px' }" />
  </div>
</template>

These macros make it possible to use Nuxt's lazy hydration utilities alongside explicit component imports.

♿️ Accessibility Improvements

We've enhanced accessibility by including <NuxtRouteAnnouncer> in the built-in app.vue (#32621). This means page changes will be announced to screen readers, making navigation more accessible for users with visual impairments. (This only applies if you do not have an app.vue in your project. If you do, please keep <NuxtRouteAnnouncer> in your app.vue!)

🛠️ Enhanced Development Experience

Chrome DevTools Workspace Integration

We've added Chrome DevTools workspace integration (#32084), allowing you to edit your Nuxt source files directly from Chrome DevTools. This creates a better debugging experience where changes made in DevTools are reflected in your actual source files.

Better Component Type Safety

Component type safety has been improved with:

• Typed slots for <ClientOnly> and <DevOnly> (#32707) - better IntelliSense and error checking
• Exported <NuxtTime> prop types (#32547) - easier to extend and customize

New Auto-Import: onWatcherCleanup

The onWatcherCleanup function from vue is now available as an auto-import (#32396), making it easier to clean up watchers and prevent memory leaks:

const { data } = useAsyncData('users', fetchUsers)

watch(data, (newData) => {
  const interval = setInterval(() => {
    // Some periodic task
  }, 1000)
  
  // Clean up when the watcher is stopped
  onWatcherCleanup(() => {
    clearInterval(interval)
  })
})

📊 Observability Enhancements

Page routes are now exposed to Nitro for observability (#32617), enabling better monitoring and analytics integration with supported platforms. This allows observability tools to track page-level metrics more effectively.

🔧 Module Development Improvements

Module authors get several quality-of-life improvements:

Simplified Server Imports

The addServerImports kit utility now supports single imports (#32289), making it easier to add individual server utilities:

// Before: had to wrap in array
addServerImports([{ from: 'my-package', name: 'myUtility' }])

// Now: can pass directly
addServerImports({ from: 'my-package', name: 'myUtility' })

TypeScript Configuration

Modules can now add to typescript.hoist (#32601), giving them more control over TypeScript configuration and type generation.

⚡️ Performance Improvements

We've made several performance optimizations:

• Improved Vite-node communication via internal socket (#32417) for faster development builds
• Migration to oxc-walker (#32250) and oxc for onPrehydrate transforms (#32045) for faster code transformations

🐛 Bug Fixes

This release also includes several important fixes:

• Improved data fetching: When computed keys change, old data is now properly retained (#32616)
• Better scroll behavior: scrollBehaviorType is now only used for hash scrolling (#32622)
• Fixed directory aliases: Added trailing slashes to some directory aliases for better consistency (#32755)

✅ Upgrading

As usual, our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

npx nuxi@latest upgrade --dedupe

This refreshes your lockfile and pulls in all the latest dependencies that Nuxt relies on, especially from the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

compare changes

🚀 Enhancements

• nuxt: Expose page routes to nitro for o11y (#32617)
• nuxt: Export <NuxtTime> prop types (#32547)
• nuxt: Add integration with chrome devtools workspaces (#32084)
• kit: Support single import in addServerImports (#32289)
• nuxt: Add onWatcherCleanup to imports presets (#32396)
• nuxt: Add route announcer to default app.vue (#32621)
• nuxt: Support lazy hydration macros (#31192)

🔥 Performance

• vite: Communicate with vite-node via internal socket (#32417)
• kit: Update env expansion regex to match nitro (#30766)

🩹 Fixes

• nuxt: Allow modules to add to typescript.hoist (#32601)
• nuxt: Retain old data when computed key changes (#32616)
• nuxt: Only use scrollBehaviorType for hash scrolling (#32622)
• nuxt: Add missing async (fd312af03)
• nuxt: Fix transform/minify types + bump oxc-transform (d2ba19963)
• nuxt: Provide typed slots for <ClientOnly> and <DevOnly> (#32707)
• kit,nuxt,schema: Add trailing slash to some dir aliases (#32755)
• nuxt: Include source base url for remote islands (#32772)
• vite: Use vite node server to transform requests (#32791)
• kit: Use mlly to parse module paths (#32386)
• nuxt: Execute all plugins after error rendering error.vue (#32744)

💅 Refactors

• nuxt: Migrate to oxc-walker (#32250)
• nuxt,schema: Use oxc for onPrehydrate transform (#32045)
• nuxt: Pass file language directly to parser options (#32665)
• nuxt: Use direct import of installNuxtModule (228e3585e)

📖 Documentation

• Pass v3 template to create nuxt examples (03182202f)
• Add reference to useNuxtData in data fetching composable pages (#32589)
• Document the --modules flag in the init command (#32599)
• Added new Shared folder to the example of v4 folder structure (#32630)
• Improve grammar (#32640)
• Typos (#32567)
• Fix abbreviation (#32613)
• Reference noUncheckedIndexedAccess rule change in v4 guide (#32643)
• Fix links to Nitro docs (#32691)
• Add best practices section (#31609)
• Correct alias for local fonts in styling guide (#32680)
• Update nuxt.new links to v4 (#32639)
• Set correct default value for deep option in usefetch (#32724)
• Fix link to issue (ca03f533f)
• Add AI-assisted contribution guidelines (#32725)
• Update Nuxt installation command to use npm create nuxt@latest (#32726)
• Hydration best practice (#32746)
• Add example for module .with() (#32757)
• Replace dead Vue Router docs links (#32779)

🏡 Chore

• Handle missing commit details (0af98763d)
• Update reproduction links for bug-report template (#32722)
• Update unbuild and use absolute path in dev stubs (#32759)

✅ Tests

• Also assert status (4b4b224f7)
• Ignore vue `modu...