Next.js Daily: React Upgrade and Documentation Improvements
Next.js upgraded to the latest React build with 13 upstream changes, while the team added new documentation for preventing hydration flashes with dates and cleaned up CI workflows.
Duration: PT1M29S
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- Show: Next.js Daily
- Published: 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT1M29S
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Good morning. This is Next.js Daily for April 20th, 2026.
The nextjs-bot merged a React upgrade from April 13th to April 17th builds, incorporating 13 upstream React changes across 91 files. This update modified the Link component and various React DOM compilation targets.
Jimmy Lai merged new documentation for displaying dates without hydration flash. The guide shows developers how to use inline scripts to prevent visible text changes when locale-formatted dates render differently between server and client.
Aurora Scharff merged improvements to the Cache Components migration guide, adding a section on UI state preservation through React's Activity component. The update explains how navigation behavior changes when migrating to Cache Components.
The team also cleaned up their infrastructure. Joseph removed the apps/docs directory as they move in a different direction. Zack Tanner removed unused CI workflows and switched from long-lived tokens to OIDC for publishing. Jiwon Choi fixed the stats action to use the correct commit ID for tarball URLs.
Matt Mastracci temporarily disabled sccache due to issues following recent changes, and the Vercel Release Bot updated the Rspack…
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