React Updates and Feature Rollbacks
Next.js saw significant activity this week with two React canary upgrades, a major deployment feature rollback, and substantial Turbopack infrastructure improvements across 28 merged pull requests.
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- Show: Next.js Daily
- Published: 2026-01-25T11:14:53Z
- Audio duration: PT2M39S
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Good morning. This is your Next.js Daily weekly recap for January 18th through 25th, 2026.
28 pull requests merged with 99 additional commits this week, highlighting active development across multiple fronts.
**React Integration**
Two React canary upgrades landed this week. The team upgraded from build d2908752 to b546603b on January 21st, followed by another update to 24d8716e on January 23rd. These updates bring the latest React improvements to Next.js users.
**Major Rollbacks**
A significant prebuilt skew protection feature was reverted this week. The automatic deployment ID feature, originally merged on January 22nd, was rolled back the following day due to broken deployment tests. The team plans to reland the feature once testing infrastructure is restored. Similarly, Turbopack's worker…
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