Vite is a next-generation frontend build tool that aims to speed up modern web development. It includes a dev server with fast Hot Module Replacement (HMR) and a build command to bundle optimized production static assets, with extensible plugin and JavaScript APIs.
Project status
- Actively maintained: the repo has a very recent upstream push (2026-06-08) and multiple version updates around 2026-06-01 across v7.3.x and v8.0.x.
- Apparent update cadence: from the provided entries, updates are occurring at least weekly or faster (three updates clustered within the same day, 2026-06-01).
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Recent updates
v6.4.3
1 week agov6.4.3 is presented as a set of security backports focused on rejecting problematic file path variants on Windows and rejecting UNC paths in launch-editor-middleware. The actual code diff shows additional, broader internal changes around server.fs access checking, transport handling, and server lifecycle behavior that are not called out in the v6.4.3 release notes content provided.
BreakingSecurityv7.3.5
1 week agoRelease v7.3.5 release notes contain no concrete change list, they only point to the changelog. The provided code diff shows the bulk of changes in the Vite documentation site (VitePress config and theme components), plus CI workflow hardening by pinning GitHub Actions to commit SHAs. No Vite public runtime API changes are visible in the snippets provided from the diff.
BreakingSecurityFeaturesv8.0.16
1 week agov8.0.16 primarily hardens Vite's file serving restrictions on Windows-related alternate path forms and updates a related dependency. The included changelog adds bug-fix notes about rejecting UNC paths for launch-editor-middleware and rejecting Windows alternate paths in the server.
BreakingSecurityv8.0.15
1 week agoThe provided release notes for v8.0.15 contain no actual change log content (they only link to CHANGELOG.md), so there is nothing concrete to verify against. The code diff shown for this release is dominated by repository and CI workflow changes (GitHub automation, templates, formatting tooling), plus documentation updates, and does not show any Vite runtime or public API code changes in the provided diff excerpt.
BreakingSecurityv8.0.14
2 weeks agoVite v8.0.14 updates rolldown to 1.0.2 and includes a few fixes around dependency scanning, HTML URL rewriting, and glob import path handling. The release also adds/updates tests to cover Sass resolution behavior during CSS preprocessing.
plugin-legacy@8.0.2
3 weeks agoplugin-legacy@8.0.2 updates the legacy HTML transformation behavior to avoid leaving modulepreload link tags in legacy-only builds. The change specifically targets removal of `<link rel="modulepreload">` elements when Vite is generating non-modern output.
v8.0.13
3 weeks agov8.0.13 release notes do not include any details inline, and instruct users to consult the upstream Vite changelog for the actual changes. No specific API, breaking change, bug fix, security, performance, dependency, or migration information is provided in the supplied release text.
create-vite@9.0.7
4 weeks agocreate-vite@9.0.7 updates the underlying build tooling to rolldown 1.0.0 and fixes create-vite’s TanStack CLI invocation. The associated Vite changes in this diff also address an SSR HMR edge case around partial exports during concurrent updates, and adjust worker bundle transforms.
Featuresv8.0.12
4 weeks agoRelease v8.0.12 was published on 2026-05-11. The provided release notes do not include any change details and instead direct readers to CHANGELOG.md in the Vite repository for the actual modifications.
v8.0.11
1 month agoThe v8.0.11 release notes do not enumerate any changes themselves, they only reference an external CHANGELOG.md. In the provided diff, the visible changes are overwhelmingly related to repository tooling (GitHub workflows, issue/PR templates) and documentation/site configuration, with no clear evidence of Vite public API or type-level changes in the shown snippets.