January 11, 2026

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Good morning, it's Monday, January thirteenth. Here's your Next.js Daily briefing.

Tim Neutkens merged two pull requests focused on improving the project's continuous integration workflow. First, he added "ready in time" tracking to the stats action, which will now measure and highlight build time improvements or regressions on each pull request. The change adds monitoring for the "Ready in X milliseconds" metric across PR statistics.

Second, Neutkens fixed an efficiency issue where the stats-aggregate job was running unnecessarily on documentation-only changes. The fix adds the same docs-only detection used by other jobs, preventing wasted CI resources when PRs contain only documentation updates.

The repository also published version 16.1.1-canary.21, updating package versions across the monorepo including create-next-app, eslint configurations, and core Next.js packages.

What's next: These CI improvements should reduce build times and resource usage for contributors. The new ready-time metrics will provide better visibility into performance changes across pull requests.

That's your Next.js update for today.