This PR adds an ability to specify a virtual field in this way
```js
{
slug: 'posts',
fields: [
{
name: 'title',
type: 'text',
required: true,
},
],
},
{
slug: 'virtual-relations',
fields: [
{
name: 'postTitle',
type: 'text',
virtual: 'post.title',
},
{
name: 'post',
type: 'relationship',
relationTo: 'posts',
},
],
},
```
Then, every time you query `virtual-relations`, `postTitle` will be
automatically populated (even if using `depth: 0`) on the db level. This
field also, unlike `virtual: true` is available for querying / sorting /
`useAsTitle`.
Also, the field can be deeply nested to 2 or more relationships, for
example:
```
{
name: 'postCategoryTitle',
type: 'text',
virtual: 'post.category.title',
},
```
Where the current collection has `post` - a relationship to `posts`, the
collection `posts` has `category` that's a relationship to `categories`
and finally `categories` has `title`.
When server rendering custom components within form state, those
components receive a path that is correct at render time, but
potentially stale after manipulating array and blocks rows. This causes
the field to briefly render incorrect values while the form state
request is in flight.
The reason for this is that paths are passed as a prop statically into
those components. Then when we manipulate rows, form state is modified,
potentially changing field paths. The component's `path` prop, however,
hasn't changed. This means it temporarily points to the wrong field in
form state, rendering the data of another row until the server responds
with a freshly rendered component.
This is not an issue with default Payload fields as they are rendered on
the client and can be passed dynamic props.
This is only an issue within custom server components, including rich
text fields which are treated as custom components. Since they are
rendered on the server and passed to the client, props are inaccessible
after render.
The fix for this is to provide paths dynamically through context. This
way as we make changes to form state, there is a mechanism in which
server components can receive the updated path without waiting on its
props to update.
**BREAKING CHANGE:**
This bumps the **minimum required Next.js** version from 15.0.0 to
15.2.3. This update is necessary due to a critical security
vulnerability found in earlier Next.js versions, which requires an
exception to our standard semantic versioning process.
Additionally, this bumps all templates to the latest Next.js and Payload
versions.
This bumps next.js to 15.2.0 in our monorepo, as well as all @types/react and @types/react-dom versions. Additionally, it removes the obsolete `peerDependencies` property from our root package.json.
This PR also fixes 2 bugs introduced by Next.js 15.2.0. This highlights why running our test suite against the latest Next.js, to make sure Payload is compatible, version is important.
## 1. handleWhereChange running endlessly
Upgrading to Next.js 15.2.0 caused `handleWhereChange` to be continuously called by a `useEffect` when the list view filters were opened, leading to a React error - I did not investigate why upgrading the Next.js version caused that, but this PR fixes it by making use of the more predictable `useEffectEvent`.
## 2. Custom Block and Array label React key errors
Upgrading to Next.js 15.2.0 caused react key errors when rendering custom block and array row labels on the server. This has been fixed by rendering those with a key
## 3. Table React key errors
When rendering a `Table`, a React key error is thrown since Next.js 15.2.0
### What?
This PR adds missing languages to `plugin-seo` that are supported in
Payload but were not ported to the plugin.
### Why?
To properly translate the custom keys added by the plugin in all
languages currently supported.
### How?
By adding the missing languages and exporting them for use.
Addresses #11201
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/9962 could be considered a
breaking change - this PR restores compatibility by allowing unknown
collection slugs, while still providing type suggestions.
This PR modifies `tsconfig.base.json` by setting the following
strictness properties to true: `strict`, `noUncheckedIndexedAccess` and
`noImplicitOverride`.
In packages where compilation errors were observed, these settings were
opted out, and TODO comments were added to make it easier to track the
roadmap for converting everything to strict mode.
The following packages now have increased strictness, which prevents new
errors from being accidentally introduced:
- storage-vercel-blob
- storage-s3*
- storage-gcs
- plugin-sentry
- payload-cloud*
- email-resend*
- email-nodemailer*
*These packages already had `strict: true`, but now have
`noUncheckedIndexedAccess` and `noImplicitOverride`.
Note that this only affects the `/packages` folder, but not
`/templates`, `/test` or `/examples` which have a different `tsconfig`.
Previously we had been downgrading rimraf to v3 simply to handle clean
with glob patterns across platforms. In v4 and newer of rimraf you can
add `-g` to use glob patterns.
This change updates rimraf and adds the flag to handle globs in our
package scripts to be windows compatible.
