#18430 dda9ec3 Thanks @Abhirup-99! - Speeds up content sync with experimental.collectionStorage: "chunked" by computing each character's UTF-8 width from its code point instead of encoding every character through TextEncoder. On a store of ~44k entries this cuts the chunking step from about 60 seconds to well under a second, with byte-identical output.
#18438 5e0eaa4 Thanks @astro-factory! - Fixes astro dev with @astrojs/cloudflare failing with Calling `require` for "node-fetch" when a server dependency such as cross-fetch requires node-fetch
#18376 a4e201d Thanks @okxint! - Fixes astro dev treating a stale lock file containing a Linux thread ID as a running Astro server. A successful process lookup with no matching PID now marks the lock as stale, preventing astro dev stop and astro dev --force from killing the unrelated process that owns the thread.
#18467 d1fb7d3 Thanks @astro-factory! - Fixes the defineConfig() types for i18n.defaultLocale, i18n.fallback, and i18n.domains so they accept a custom locale's path instead of its codes, matching how Astro validates and uses these values
#18475 cf27e70 Thanks @ematipico! - Bumps the minimum supported Node.js version to 22.23.4, which includes the fixes from the October 2026 Node.js security releases

This is a patch release because the Node.js support and upgrade policy allows the Core team to raise the minimum Maintenance LTS version in a patch release when a disclosed and fixed Node.js security flaw affects Astro.

#18451 7a0ba6f Thanks @DenisCDev! - Fixes astro sync, astro check and astro build replacing the optimized dependencies of a dev server running in the same project, which broke framework islands in that dev server until it was restarted with --force
#18336 e943003 Thanks @astro-factory! - Fixes inline styles in dev so that framework-transformed CSS is used, such as scoped styles and v-bind() in Vue single-file components
#18399 829fc00 Thanks @astro-factory! - Fixes a dev server error (Could not find server component name) for a server:defer island that imports astro:actions or astro:config/server, when its page was not the first island page loaded after starting the server
#18330 4db9e0d Thanks @Samuteg! - Fixes the astro:env/server virtual module being generated with invalid JS in dev when any environment variable contains $ replacement patterns ($`, $&, $', $1, …). The inlined env JSON was passed as a string to String.replace, so e.g. the KITTY_PUBLIC_KEY value set by default in Kitty terminals corrupted the module and broke dev with Failed to parse source for import analysis
Updated dependencies [cf27e70]:
- @astrojs/[email protected]
- @astrojs/[email protected]