Next Js Daily: Custom Page Extensions and a CI Cleanup Sweep
Two fixes closed long-standing gaps for projects using custom page extensions, while five separate pull requests stripped out dormant GitHub automation workflows. A touch-screen dragging bug in devtools also got resolved.
Duration: PT2M22S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Next Js Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next Js Daily
- Published: 2026-08-23T22:00:23Z
- Audio duration: PT2M22S
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Good morning, it's August 23rd, and this is Next Js Daily.
Today's biggest thread: projects using custom, multi-part page extensions like "page dot t s x" have been quietly falling through the cracks in two different tools, and both got fixed today.
First, PR 97751 from dream-creator addresses a case where fonts loaded through next slash font simply weren't getting preload tags on statically prerendered app routes—CSS and JavaScript preloaded fine, but fonts silently didn't, because the font manifest is keyed by webpack entry names that don't always line up…
Second theme: repository maintenance. Eps1lon opened five PRs today, all removing dormant CI workflows—the weekly "popular" issues digest, the "wrong issue template" auto-closer, the broken "code freeze" workflow, the stale-issue closer, and the issue-locking automation. The common thread is that these were either…
One more fix worth flagging: PR 97723 restores proper touch behavior on the devtools drag indicator. A prior change that made devtools content selectable had accidentally disabled touch-action none, which let the browser hijack touch gestures for scrolling instead of dragging. That's now patched with integration…
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