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Next.js 16.3.2

Release Date: August 21, 2026

⚡ Next.js 16.3.2 is here — a backport-patch drop focused on squashing bugs without pulling in unfinished canary features. Stable, targeted, minimal. Just how a patch release should behave.

🐛 Bug Bashes

This one is all about correctness in the app directory and the Turbopack layer. Six focused fixes were backported from canary to keep production builds honest.

  • App-entry export validation is now scoped strictly to files inside the app directory
  • Catch-all index pages are no longer served for every other slug
  • Turbopack stops tracing embedded WASM loader helpers
  • Turbopack retains conditions when replacing resolve request keys
  • Turbopack worker chunk loading works correctly with an asset prefix

🔐 Cache Cleansing

Turborepo remote caching now authenticates with OIDC instead of a static personal access token — a tucked-away security win for CI pipelines.

⬆️ Update Advice

If you are on the 16.3.x line, this is a safe, low-risk bump. Patch it in, run your test suite, deploy. Credits to the contributors who backported these fixes.

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