vite

SvelteKit 3.0 was released October 1, moving configuration into vite.config.ts, replacing $lib with #lib, and requiring Vite 8, TypeScript 6 and Node 22.17.

Seven months after launching as an AI-driven experiment, Cloudflare's Vinext reaches 1.0 with App Router and Pages Router support and a cache-warming deploy step.

VoidZero's Vitest 4.1 adds pytest-style test tags, an experimental mode to bypass Vite's module runner, async leak detection, and a reporter optimized for AI coding agents.

Astro shipped the first alpha of its next major version on April 30 with two breaking changes: an upgrade to Vite 8's Rolldown-based bundler and the retirement of the Go compiler in favor of a Rust-based one that was previously gated behind experimental.rustCompiler.

Vite 8.0 replaces its dual esbuild-and-Rollup architecture with Rolldown, a Rust-based bundler delivering 10-30x faster builds. Linear reports build times dropping from 46 to 6 seconds.