Next.js Daily: Static Navigation Goes Stable
Navigation-level static rendering is shedding its experimental prefix as Turbopack lands a batch of chunking correctness fixes and cache handling gets first-request reliability patches.
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- Show: Next.js Daily
- Published: 2026-09-29T06:07:29Z
- Audio duration: PT2M25S
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Hello, it's Tuesday, September 29th, 2026, and this is Next.js Daily.
The lead story is stabilization. Navigation-level static rendering is moving from experimental to stable, while Turbopack and the cache layer get a round of correctness fixes.
First, static navigation. Pull request 99171 delivers the initial implementation of ensure static set to navigation, where all prerenders are blocking and all parameters must be specified up front through generate static params, similar to full export. The goal is no per-request compute, no fallback plus resume for…
Second, Turbopack chunking reliability. Four fixes merged September 28th from Jimmy Miller target tree shaking and module splitting. Pull request 95516 stops empty tree-shaken chunks from shifting part IDs, which caused out-of-bounds panics and wrong fragment selection. Pull request 95522 preserves chunking…
Third, cache and routing correctness. Pull request 99372 fixes custom cache handlers missing on the first request by waiting for handler registration before rendering. Related open work includes a revalidate tag fix when profiles differ in 99359, Draft Mode previews for unpublished URLs on adapter deployments in…
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