7.0.0

Read the blog post on nextjs.org/blog/next-7

Major Changes

• Webpack 4, react-error-overlay, react-loadable: #4639
• Implement hard-source-webpack-plugin: #5181
• Implement webpack autoDLLPlugin in development: #4951
• Throw error if getInitialProps is defined as as instance method: #4922
• Remove __next-error div: #5107
• Upgrade to Babel 7 stable: #5042
  • Note that this is semi-breaking as we already used Babel 7 beta. If you don't have a .babelrc there is no breaking change. If you do have a .babelrc you'll have to upgrade the specific preset/plugin to the latest version.
  • Make sure all your @babel/ dependencies are using version 7.0.0
  • See https://github.com/babel/babel/releases for breaking changes
• Upgrade styled-jsx to v3 (#4936)
  • See https://github.com/zeit/styled-jsx/releases/tag/v3.0.0 for changes
  • The main breaking change being that global external styles now require css.global https://github.com/zeit/styled-jsx#external-css-and-styles-outside-of-the-component
• Rename commons directory to runtime: #4853
• Compile pages to .next/static directory: #4828
• Use nonce attribute for all scripts and preloads if provided: #4539
• Support events emitter for router: #4726

Minor Changes

• Make initial HTML smaller: #5183
• Compile away next/link proptypes in production: #5155
• Remove obsolete webpack plugins: #5158
• Improvements to on-demand-entries: #5176
• Trigger page register when module is executed: #5115
• Change server error overlay to white to be consistent with react-error-overlay: #5104
• Provide a way to copy files in exportPathMap: #5089
• Remove module.exports from client bundles: #5093
• Use preset-react's development option + enable modules transform in test env: #5081
• Use terser for minification: #5083
• 404 routing for static export without exportPathMap: #5036
• Open editor from error-overlay: #4979
• Scroll to name property when hash is provided to <Link>: #5019
• Replace uuid with nanoid: #4987
• Use same extensions webpack supports, with addition of .jsx: #4960
• Allow extending transform-runtime without losing Next.js defaults: #5022
• Factor out NextScript inline source (#4939): #4934
• Respect target on <a/> tags under Link: #4763
• Allow app component to be wrapped with custom enhancer when rendering: #4762
• Add support for rendering .css chunks: #4861

Patches

• Add mocha example: #5182
• Clear node_modules/.cache before saving node_modules on travis: 249d4be
• Fix test intermittently failing: 3dae7cf
• Add test for cache-control in development: 873ac5d
• Update 404 static cache header to not cache: #5146
• Upgrade with-jest dependencies: #5149
• Remove code that is no longer in use: #5147
• Add react-jss example: #5140
• Update with-ant-design example: #5141
• Add with-context-api example: #5154
• Don’t read package.scripts if there’s no scripts defined: #5168
• Remove reference to ./css.js from npm files list: #5179
• Update next.config in with-webpack-bundle-analyzer example to avoid issue with Next.js in CI: #5135
• Set cwd on babel-loader: #5127
• Make exportPathMap / _next routes work with useFileSystemPublicRoutes disabled: #5131
• Add tests for useFileSystemPublicRoutes: #5131
• Fix @babel/env modules config: #5119
• Update hoist-non-react-statics: #5117
• Make non-existent routes under /_next return 404: #5120
• Fix custom-server-typescript not typechecking: #3954
• Fixed package.json: #4654
• Remove unused flow definitions: #5094
• Use publicRuntimeConfig for universal-configuration-runtime example: #5101
• Update imports in with-redux example: #4512
• Use DefinePlugin to pass distDir instead of manually passing: #5105
• [with-apollo-auth] Only run getDataFromTree() on server (fix #4775): #5112
• Add with-yarn-workspaces example: #5034
• Move next export into it's own directory: #5084
• Fix dependencies: #5091
• Make sure that 404's is not cached by CDN:s: #5088
• Remove obsolete route: #5092
• Added example with IBM Carbon Components, with demonstrated customizability: #4932
• Add with-mobx-state-tree-typescript example (re-submitting due to accidental deletion): #5077
• Update example: with-sitemap-and-robots-express-server: #4579
• Fix HMR when parent directory starts with '.': #4589
• Make warning about false positives clearer: #5079
• Use as instead of url to determine URL newness: #4153
• Add with-sitemap-and-robots-express-server-typescript example: #5076
• Fix react-intl example: #4840
• Add mention of canary vs stable: #5074
• Example with-reasonml dependency updates: #5048
• Keep chunks filenames in production mode: #5029
• Add circleci: 2f2eaf2
• Fix inconsistency in dynamic tests: #5071
• Apply sideEffect at DidMount on the client side: #5068
• Fix with-custom-reverse-proxy example: #5064
• Update .babelrc: #5063
• Update dependencies in package.json: #5066
• Fix devtoolModuleFilenames for react-error-overlay: #5055
• Upgrade to styled-jsx@canary: #5067
• Split out Loadable.Capture and make NoSSR smaller: #5060
• Fix 404 export: #5061
• Send credentials with on-demand-entries-ping: #5053
• Set mode for DLL bundle: #5059
• Fix loading... issue: #5058
• Fixes dynamic chunks preload links, use href instead of src: #5047
• Css example upgrade: #5039
• Remove dublicate className from head: #5026
• Remove UNSAFE_ lifecycle methods from next/head: #5020
• Remove UNSAFE_ lifecycles from tests: #5031
• Add warning for broken popstate: #5000
• Fix broken hash scroll logic: #4766
• Allow Duplicate Open Graph Image Tags: #4851
• Improve getDisplayName util: #4944
• Update yarn.lock: cf5dd4a
• Replace deprecated props.url in readme: #4952
• Make onClick Link tests more consistent: #4954
• Replace deprecated props.url in examples: #4953
• Update with-loading example: #4836
• Fix shallow routing examples using old React lifecycle and deprecated props.url: #4950
• Update routing samples: #4864
• Note babel-plugin-styled-components: #4882
• Use contenthash instead of chunkhash: #4894
• Update with-sentry example: #4859
• Let webpack handle contenthash: #4895
• Fixed server status message in with-redux-observable-example.: #4900
• Await preloading right before rendering the page: #4896
• Improve glamor example: #4893
• Add with-strict-csp example: #4858
• Run manual-bind-to-arrow codemod: #4906
• Run rename-unsafe-lifecycles as preparation for React 17: #4907
• Fix decorator warnings: #4910
• Run method sorting codemod: #4909
• Add slate.js example: #4899
• Make next/link async safe: #4911
• Set correct status for sigint: #4917
• [BUG] Fix emit-file-loader compatibility with Webpack 4: #4918
• Remove with-global-stylesheet example: #4913
• Rewrite with-dotenv example: #4924
• Update with-custom-babel-config example: #4923
• Added example: with-typestyle: #4926
• Update Apollo links in examples: #4933
• Make wasm files load on ssr: #4942
• Make Router.events.on work even when router is not initialized: #4874
• Improve custom-server-fastify example: #4805
• Update example: Semantic-UI: #4815
• Update with-react-ga example: #4816
• Update with-react-intl example: #4817
• Update with-redux-observable example: #4818
• Update client-only-render-external-dependency example: #4822
• Update with-react-intl example: #4825
• Fix micro readme example: #4827
• Update with-asset-import example: #4830
• Update with-flow example: #4835
• Update with-markdown example: #4839
• Fix dynamic import page navigation: #4842
• Update readme with alternative hostname option: #4829
• Upgrade serve: #4857
• Update with-prefetching example: #4850
• Missing babel configuration in sw-precache example: #4856
• Update RNW example: #4787
• Ensured process exits after static export: #4747
• Upgrade serve in with-static-export example: #4800
• Upgrade fastify in custom-server-fastify: #4801
• Update @types/next to latest in typescript example.: #4750
• Improve documentation on runtime configuration: #4756
• Add example of process.env runtimeConfig: #4759
• #4751 - Explicitly mention install when cloning examples: #4758
• Fix #4574: getInitialProps is not called on _error page for client-side errors: #4764
• [with-apollo] simplify apolloState prop: #4755
• Merge url query with exportPathMap: #4678
• [hello-world example] remove unused file: 6a489ef
• Fix code splitting on Windows: #4685
• Make sure hashchanges get triggered: #4676
• Added note for AWSAppSyncClient: #4611
• Add [with-storybook] example: #4588
• Fix typescript examples: #4704
• Improve with-mobx example: #4705
• Upgrade styled-jsx to 2.2.7: #4714
• Fix(with-pkg): Rename dist to server: #4727
• Apollo example: avoid double render in browser: #4734
• Prepend polyfills only once (#4738): #4643

Credits

Huge thanks to @stephensauceda, @HaNdTriX, @linqiu, @HenriBeck, @rafaelalmeidatk, @maurodaprotis, @rekomat, @kylemh, @juliaqiuxy, @probablyup, @implicitdef, @dutradda, @DullReferenceException, @dipiash, @keeth, @ptomasroos, @allpwrfulroot, @yoDon, @klyburke, @NathanielHill, @gcpantazis, @istarkov, @Enalmada, @tusbar, @danielr18, @vpicone, @popugune, @itsfadnis, @abusada, @tomaswitek, @mfix22, oliviertassinari, @Tomekmularczyk, @garmeeh, @lucleray, @kachkaev, @dbo, @giuseppeg, @mxstbr, @sayuti-daniel, @kalabro, @HeyHugo, @novascreen, @connor-baer, @sahalsajjad, @tim-phillips, @brainkim, @adrianmcli, @Gilaz, @terrierscript, @stefanivic, @jmaguirrei, @dcalhoun, @lkostrowski, @jamesreggio, @albinekb, @jhartley218, @mherodev, @klujanrosas, @cherniavskii, @Skaronator, @vinpac, @Rokt33r, @evenchange4, and @NikitaVlaznev for helping!