v14.1.1

Note: this is a backport release for critical bug fixes -- this does not include all pending features/changes on canary

Core Changes

• Should not warn metadataBase missing if only absolute urls are present: #61898
• Fix trailing slash for canonical url: #62109
• Fix metadata json manifest convention: #62615
• Improve the Server Actions SWC transform: #61001
• Fix Server Reference being double registered: #61244
• Improve the Server Actions SWC transform (part 2): #62052
• Fix module-level Server Action creation with closure-closed values: #62437
• Fix draft mode invariant: #62121
• fix: babel usage with next/image: #61835
• Fix next/server api alias for ESM pkg: #61721
• Replace image optimizer IPC call with request handler: #61471
• chore: refactor image optimization to separate external/internal urls: #61172
• fix(image): warn when animated image is missing unoptimized prop: #61045
• fix(build-output): show stack during CSR bailout warning: #62594
• Fix extra swc optimizer applied to node_modules in browser layer: #62051
• fix(next-swc): Detect exports.foo from cjs_finder: #61795
• Fix attempted import error for react: #61791
• Add stack trace to client rendering bailout error: #61200
• fix router crash on revalidate + popstate: #62383
• fix loading issue when navigating to page with async metadata: #61687
• revert changes to process default routes at build: #61241
• fix parallel route top-level catch-all normalization logic to support nested explicit (non-catchall) slot routes: #60776
• Improve redirection handling: #62561
• Simplify node/edge server chunking some: #62424

Credits

Huge thanks to @huozhi, @shuding, @Ethan-Arrowood, @styfle, @ijjk, @ztanner, @balazsorban44, @kdy1, and @williamli for helping!