Next.js: Turbopack Path Handling Gets a Real Fix
A cluster of Turbopack fixes closed out long-standing gaps in how relative paths and import.meta.glob patterns are resolved, while the team quietly retired legacy test infrastructure like node-fetch and tsec across dozens of files.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Next.js.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next.js
- Published: 2026-09-10T13:14:20Z
- Audio duration: PT2M40S
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Good day, and welcome to the Next.js briefing for September 10th, 2026.
The clearest signal today: Turbopack's path-resolution logic got a serious, coordinated overhaul, closing bugs that only surfaced when independent changes collided.
Sokra's PR 96557 fixed import.meta.glob so it correctly resolves parent-directory and root-absolute patterns, instead of silently returning empty results or dropping exclusion patterns — the worst possible failure for something meant to exclude files. That work exposed a follow-on gap: relative paths used as module…
Second theme: infrastructure cleanup. Eps1lon led a multi-PR push to remove node-fetch across the test harness, fixtures, and scripts — PRs 98195, 98346, and commit 76a0bdb — since Node now ships fetch natively. Same author also removed the unenforced tsec linter in PR 98423 and cleaned up an orphaned CI action in…
Third, rendering correctness: gnoff's PR 97345 makes metadata resolve independently per parallel route slot, behind an experimental flag, so one slot's error can't corrupt another's document head. And a Server Component not-found fix, PR 98455, addresses a long-open SEO issue where crawlers saw blank pages instead…
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