# Docusaurus v3.8.1 — 3.8.1

- Product: Docusaurus (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/docusaurus)
- Vendor: Meta
- Date: 2025-06-06
- Version: v3.8.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/releases/tag/v3.8.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/docusaurus/releases/v3.8.1

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- **fixed** — Fix inability to navigate to category's page when browsing its children items in theme
- **fixed** — Fix Windows CSS cascade layers bug
- **fixed** — Fix docusaurus start using concatenateModules: true
- **fixed** — Include Arc to supported Chromium browsers
- **fixed** — Fix docusaurus start error for macOS users with no Chromium-based browser
- **fixed** — Fix future flags public types
- **changed** — Avoid duplicated git log calls in loadContent() and postBuild() for untracked Git files

###### :bug: Bug Fix

- `docusaurus-theme-classic`
  - [#11242](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11242) fix(theme): fix unability to navigate to category's page when browsing its children items ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))
- `docusaurus-plugin-css-cascade-layers`
  - [#11241](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11241) fix(css-cascade-layers): fix windows css cascade layers bug ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))
- `docusaurus`
  - [#11222](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11222) fix(bundler): fix `docusaurus start` using `concatenateModules: true` ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))
  - [#11217](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11217) fix: include Arc to supported Chromium Browsers ([@wellwelwel](https://github.com/wellwelwel))
  - [#11205](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11205) fix(core): fix `docusaurus start` error for macOS users with no Chromium-based browser ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))
- `docusaurus-types`
  - [#11221](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11221) fix(types): fix future flags public types ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))

###### :running_woman: Performance

- `docusaurus-plugin-content-blog`, `docusaurus-plugin-sitemap`, `docusaurus-theme-classic`, `docusaurus-types`, `docusaurus-utils`, `docusaurus`
  - [#11211](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11211) perf: avoid duplicated `git log` calls in `loadContent()` and `postBuild()` for untracked Git files ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))

###### :wrench: Maintenance

- `docusaurus-faster`
  - [#11248](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11248) chore(faster): upgrade Rspack ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))
- `docusaurus-plugin-content-docs`
  - [#11230](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11230) refactor(docs): extract `loadVersion()` without changing the behavior ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))
- Other
  - [#11212](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/pull/11212) chore: upgrade to Node 22 by default ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))

###### Committers: 7

- Ben McCann ([@benmccann](https://github.com/benmccann))
- Dave Meyer ([@dave-meyer](https://github.com/dave-meyer))
- Léo Vincent ([@leovct](https://github.com/leovct))
- Noritaka Kobayashi ([@noritaka1166](https://github.com/noritaka1166))
- Phil Parsons ([@p-m-p](https://github.com/p-m-p))
- Sébastien Lorber ([@slorber](https://github.com/slorber))
- Weslley Araújo ([@wellwelwel](https://github.com/wellwelwel))