**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.
Similar to #10331. Since React 19, refs can now be passed directly
through props without the need for `React.forwardRef`. This greatly
simplifies components types and overall syntax.
Adds the ability to create a project using an existing in the Payload
repo example through `create-payload-app`:
For example:
`pnpx create-payload-app --example custom-server` - creates a project
from the
[custom-server](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/custom-server)
example.
This is much easier and faster then downloading the whole repo and
copying the example to another folder.
Note that we don't configure the payload config with the storage / DB
adapter there because examples can be very specific.
TS 5.7 added support for ES2024. By keeping target: “esnext”, we would
have accidentally set our minimum supported ES version to ES2024.
This sets it to ES2022, which is the version supported by Node 18
GraphQL currently doesn't pass CORS checks as we don't expose an OPTIONS
endpoint which is used for browser preflights.
Should also fix situations like this
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/8974
The comments injected into auto-generated files have gotten misformatted
due to linting. Here is the proper format, where both comments are
adjacent to one another:
```js
/* THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY BY PAYLOAD. */
/* DO NOT MODIFY IT BECAUSE IT COULD BE REWRITTEN AT ANY TIME. */
```
Some comments were also written with casing issues, here's an example:
```js
/* DO NOT MODIFY it because it could be re-written at any time. */
```
**BREAKING:**
- The minimum required next version is now 14.3.0-canary.68. This is
because we are migrating away from the deprecated
experimental.serverComponentsExternalPackages next config key to
experimental.serverExternalPackages, which is not available in older
next canaries
- The minimum `react` and `react-dom` versions have been bumped to
^18.2.0 or ^19.0.0. This matches the minimum react version recommended
by next
