Nuxt v4.5.2

4.5.2 is the next patch release.

👉 Changelog

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🔥 Performance

• nuxt,kit: Skip rewriting unchanged generated files (#35902)
• kit,nuxt: Use lazy imports to improve parsing speed (#35901)
• vite: Skip html entry probes in bare-import resolver (#35907)
• nuxt: Reuse app and component scans for unchanged structures (#35912)

🩹 Fixes

• vite: Resolve client manifest path from resolved config (#35883)
• nuxt: Use client-side navigation for links inside islands (#35806)
• nuxt: Generate types for route params defined with definePageMeta (#35857)
• nuxt: Serialize island payloads for components with underscores in keys (#35807)
• nitro: Dedupe island renders when prerendering (#35835)
• nuxt: Drop prefetch hints for never-hydrated chunks (#35812)
• vite: Use same asset filenames for worker builds (#35866)
• nitro: Reject non-object island props (#35867)
• nuxt: Support options api in v-for islands transform (#35877)
• nuxt: Improve page meta extraction + performance (#35869)
• nuxt: Set build outputs when restoring vue cache (#35895)
• kit: Honour nested apply and applyToEnvironment in vite wrapper (#35899)
• nuxt: Re-check for preview mode after prerendered page hydration (#35886)
• kit,nuxt,vite: Handle missed chokidar watch events (#35887)
• nuxt: Settle asyncData status when bailing (#35908)
• kit: Clone resolved config with klona rather than klona/full (#35914)
• kit: Honour nested plugins' enforce in vite wrapper (#35916)
• nuxt: Collect build cache once build outputs are final (#35929)
• vite: Resolve vite env api sourcemaps in vite-node (#35758)
• nuxt: Don't warn about missing <NuxtPage> on nav + with slot (#35948)
• kit: Prepend vite environment wrapper plugin when prepend is set (#35942)
• nuxt: Depend on rolldown as a peer to reuse vite's copy (3fda97f60)
• nitro: Define import.meta.test for server code (#35987)
• nuxt: Match route rules against decoded paths (9123ed850)

💅 Refactors

• nuxt: Use vue-component-type-helpers instead of locally maintained helpers (#35840)
• nuxt: Use isReferenceIdentifier in page-meta plugin (#35882)

📖 Documentation

• Sync mcp server page with live tools and providers (#35856)
• Add server components guide and mostly-static site recipe (#35778)
• Minor changes (#33479)
• Add accessible routing guide (#34796)
• Update testing guide to test-utils v4.1.0 (#35873)
• Update .env provider reference from dotenv to c12 (#35911)
• Add note to avoid using defineVitestProject in e2e tests (#35926)
• Update roadmap (f6e6027fe)

📦 Build

• ui-templates: Copy generated templates from resolved output dir (#35921)

🏡 Chore

• nuxt: Bump @nuxt/devtools to v3.4.0 (#35892)
• Fix lint (1951a2489)
• Throw error with cause in script (a90608d5c)
• Lint notification script 🤦 (429a96b24)
• Ignore safe pull_request_target (035a3a3d4)
• Reorder ignore (3baf6fedd)
• Bump nuxt rolldown peer dep to match unctx (2c38086f5)

✅ Tests

• Skip webpack dev tests for island v-for transform (73030e55a)
• Add regression test for #35893 (#35893)
• vite: Cover windows drive letters in toFsUrl (a5ad667f7)

🤖 CI

• Shard the critical-path test jobs and cache playwright (#35832)
• Add action to notify issues resolved on release (5fffe5718)
• Make notification script more resilient (5337bd357)
• Do not comment on issues in other repos (400dfdc11)
• Add explicit permissions: {} to workflows (2e1a1cbeb)
• Rebalance windows e2e matrix (dffe13742)
• Let contributors know prs are backported (3e416c54f)
• Regenerate templates in autofix job (95d33637f)

❤️ Contributors

• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Matej Černý (@cernymatej)
• Aubakirov Asker (@Askerka00)
• Yoshihiro Yamaguchi (@yamachi4416)
• Samuel Burkhard (@samydoesit)
• Kenneth Sills (@Kenneth-Sills)
• Spunkie (@Spunkie)
• Bochkarev Ivan (@Ibochkarev)
• Amulet Iris (@KazariAI)
• Yash Bavadiya (@xevrion)
• Alexander Lichter (@TheAlexLichter)
• Mehraz Morshed (@mehrazmorshed)
• mcrapts (@mcrapts)
• Benjamin Canac (@benjamincanac)
• Anthony Fu (@antfu)