3.4.2 is a patch release with the latest bug fixes and performance improvements

✨ What's new?

Apart from the normal bug fixes, we have a couple things we should call out.

1. 🔥 We're now on Vite 4.3 (#20405). This was a performance-focused release and hopefully you'll be enjoying the speed improvements! Check out the release announcement for more info.
2. 👀 It's now possible to experimentally enable @parcel/watcher for the Nuxt dev watcher (#20179). This may improve performance if you're on Windows. You'll probably also want to install watchman in that case.

✅ Upgrading

As usual, our recommendation for upgrading is to run:

nuxi upgrade --force

This will refresh your lockfile as well, and ensures that you pull in updates from other dependencies that Nuxt relies on, particularly in the unjs ecosystem.

👉 Changelog

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🔥 Performance

• nuxt: Share lazy component definitions (#20259)
• Remove unused deps and add implicit deps (#20356)
• Allow using @parcel/watcher for dev watcher (#20179)

🩹 Fixes

• vite: Set different cache dirs for client/server (#20276)
• nuxt: Generate hi-res sourcemaps (#20280)
• nuxt: Return type directly if not picking asyncData (#20288)
• nuxt: Provide more helpful error when instance unavailable (#20289)
• nuxt: Mark useRequestHeaders keys as optional (#20286)
• vite: Avoid serving arbitrary file in vite-node middleware (#20345)
• nuxt: Swap preloads for json/js payloads (#20375)
• nuxt: Handle pages with no content and log warning (#20373)
• test-utils: Import jest functions from @jest/globals (#20360)
• core,kit: Ensure module transpilation paths are dirs (#20396)
• schema: Rely on installed telemetry types (#19640)
• cli: Load kit from rootDir when preparing project (#20401)
• nuxt: Clone app config on server (#20278)

💅 Refactors

• nuxt: Rework and use isJS and isVue utilities consistently (#20344)
• vite: Use native isFileServingAllowed util (#20414)

📖 Documentation

• Update links on hooks page (#20296)
• Add brief information on debugging a nuxt app (#20282)
• Fix vue-tsc link (#20350)
• Update lint command for the documentation (#20399)

🏡 Chore

• Remove @ts-ignore and fix some issues (#20273)
• Maintain a 'next release' PR (e6cc4aa02)
• Set git user (2a596c2b3)
• Don't list dep updates in auto-changelog (8234bc18d)
• Update vite to v4.3 (#20405)

🤖 CI

• Don't run ci for release branches (f550976f7)
• Give write access to changelogensets (0518cdbff)

❤️ Contributors

• Daniel Roe (@danielroe)
• Harlan Wilton (@harlan-zw)
• Preet Mishra (@preetmishra)
• Lehoczky Zoltán (@Lehoczky)
• @BD103
• Anthony Fu (@antfu)