Update payloadcms monorepo to v3.81.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence	Diffend
@payloadcms/db-postgres (source)	3.80.0 → 3.81.0					Diff
@payloadcms/email-nodemailer (source)	3.80.0 → 3.81.0					Diff
@payloadcms/next (source)	3.80.0 → 3.81.0					Diff
@payloadcms/plugin-import-export (source)	3.80.0 → 3.81.0					Diff
@payloadcms/richtext-lexical (source)	3.80.0 → 3.81.0					Diff
payload (source)	3.80.0 → 3.81.0					Diff

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Release Notes

payloadcms/payload (@​payloadcms/db-postgres)

v3.81.0

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🚀 Features

• add LLM eval suite for Payload conventions and code generation (#​15710) (db4b00e)
• next: prevent admin panel errors when cacheComponents is enabled (#​16020) (1ecd7dd)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• update file-type, ajv and jose packages (#​16118) (d09ed54)
• add field-level access control to internal auth fields (#​16119) (4ae5577)
• where querying by a join field with relationship nested to an array (#​16101) (0f79eed)
• trashed documents still show as IDs in relationship responses (#​16102) (aa143e6)
• db-mongodb: virtual fields within blocks (#​16107) (77cdb17)
• db-postgres: stabilize read replicas support (#​16083) (46ddf8d)
• db-postgres: handle blockType filters for versions (#​16071) (727d74e)
• deps: resolve high severity audit vulnerabilities (#​16104) (c5a3767)
• next: respect canAccessAdmin when a custom dashboard view is configured (#​16105) (329090c)
• next: forgot password basePath was not respected (#​16084) (3c40241)
• plugin-multi-tenant: forbidden error when logging in as a user with no tenant and no access to all tenants (#​16047) (9c58e7c)
• richtext-lexical: prevent invalid h0 heading nodes when all heading sizes are disabled (#​16090) (185548a)
• sdk: pass trash to request (#​16092) (e0b3e81)
• storage-gcs: bump @​google-cloud/storage (#​16046) (5c06266)
• storage-vercel-blob: properly handle alwaysInsertFields and add comprehensive integration test suite with a vercel blob emulator (#​16080) (8530b45)
• templates: add --no-server-fast-refresh to all dev scripts for Next.js 16.2+ compatibility (#​16074) (8045887)
• ui: prevent data loss in copy-to-locale with drafts (#​16073) (43b8de6)
• ui: tokenInMemory not set after refreshing cookie (#​15928) (17266ab)
• ui: respect admin.dateFormat for list view filters (#​16040) (d5fe0ce)

🛠 Refactors

• ui: live preview iframe loader (#​16004) (167a01e)

📚 Documentation

• clarify unique field index behavior and add warnings for array/blocks nesting (#​15969) (38c1d4d)
• document ListViewServerProps/ClientProps and custom list view component patterns (#​15970) (eb3b227)
• adds code examples for how to fully implement textStateFeature (#​16053) (80ae745)

🧪 Tests

• add defaultSort join field property integration tests (#​16057) (b2a8917)

📝 Templates

• fix broken images on Next.js 16 by using relative paths for local media (#​16058) (1a0f4d0)
• bump to Next.js 16.2.1 (#​16032) (5c3244f)

⚙️ CI

• fix localstack startup (#​16048) (0d15620)

🏡 Chores

• claude: update audit-dependencies skill with lockfile strategy and override rules (#​16106) (974870a)
• deps: bump qs-esm from 7.0.2 to 8.0.1 (#​16110) (d6862fe)

🤝 Contributors

• Dan Ribbens (@​DanRibbens)
• Jarrod Flesch (@​JarrodMFlesch)
• angus-msquared (@​angus-msquared)
• Sean Zubrickas (@​zubricks)
• Alessio Gravili (@​AlessioGr)
• Patrik (@​PatrikKozak)
• Jake Fletcher (@​jacobsfletch)
• Mahmoud Hamdy (@​mahmoodhamdi)
• Elliot DeNolf (@​denolfe)
• Sasha (@​r1tsuu)
• Nathan Bo Wang (@​nathanbowang)
• Jon Bockhorst (@​jmbockhorst)
• Daniel Giljam (@​DanielGiljam)
• Kendell (@​kendelljoseph)

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