Next.js Daily: Turbopack Performance and PPR Cleanup
Twenty pull requests were merged on March 5th, 2026, focusing on Turbopack tree shaking improvements, React 19 upgrades, and removal of legacy PPR code. Additional work included cached navigation enhancements and documentation updates.
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- Show: Next.js Daily
- Published: 2026-03-05T11:24:26Z
- Audio duration: PT2M15S
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Good morning. This is Next.js Daily for March 5th, 2026.
Twenty pull requests were merged yesterday with significant activity across performance optimization and code cleanup. Sokra merged two major Turbopack improvements: tree shaking fixes and code organization that addressed ModulePart handling for free variable references, and a follow-up addressing review feedback…
Devjiwonchoi completed a comprehensive cleanup of legacy PPR code, removing the PrerenderStorePPR type and all prerender-ppr switch cases, followed by removal of the legacy PPR postpone cluster. These changes streamline the codebase after successful deployment test verification.
Unstubbable enhanced cached navigations with two significant updates: caching the static stage of partially static initial HTML for PPR resume scenarios, and implementing runtime stage data caching from navigation requests for pages with unstable_instant prefetch runtime configuration.
Additional notable merges include lukesandberg adding trace spans for Turbopack persistence operations in the .next/trace output, eps1lon updating next-swc transforms to use configured page extensions instead of hardcoded values, and mischnic unifying Node and…
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