* Sanitize redirects/headers and use execFileSync
Replace execSync calls with execFileSync (pass argv arrays) to avoid shell interpolation and adjust package-install logic to split package manager and args. Sanitize redirect destinations in SSR paths to prevent protocol-relative open-redirects and use sanitizeDestinationLocal for Next.js redirects. Ensure middleware receives a cleaned pathname by stripping internal .rsc suffix before creating NextRequest and add a test for this behavior. Strip sensitive headers (cookie, authorization and x-middleware-*) from proxied external requests and add a test. Document cache key hazards for auth headers in fetch-cache, add a security note for dangerouslySetInnerHTML in head SSR, and set the Draft Mode cookie to include Secure in production (with tests for production/dev behavior).
* Rename middleware header to x-custom-middleware
Change middleware header name from x-middleware-test to x-custom-middleware across fixtures and tests, and clarify server comment about stripping x-middleware-* headers from responses (reserved for internal routing signals). Files updated: packages/vinext/src/server/prod-server.ts (comment tweak), tests/fixtures/pages-basic/middleware.ts (header set), and tests/pages-router.test.ts (expectations and test titles/comments). This ensures tests reflect the new public header name while preserving internal x-middleware-* semantics.
* Normalize leading slashes and strip headers
Normalize redirect/rewrite destinations by collapsing any leading slashes or backslashes to a single "/" to avoid protocol-relative redirects and handle browser-backslash behavior. Strip additional sensitive headers (x-api-key, proxy-authorization) from proxied requests and ensure all x-middleware-* internal headers are removed from responses (broadened from x-middleware-request-*). Update dev/server sanitization logic accordingly. Update tests and fixture middleware to use shortened x-mw-* header names and add tests covering backslash normalization.
Refactor chained .replace() to single-pass tokenizers in pattern matching:
- matchConfigPattern in config-matchers.ts and index.ts
- escapeHeaderSource (new) replaces inline chained escaping in matchHeaders/applyHeaders
- matchMiddlewarePattern in prod server entry template
- matchPattern in middleware.ts
Also:
- escapeHeaderSource correctly handles :param(constraint) patterns
- Fix decodeURIComponent parity gap in index.ts matchConfigPattern
- Fix redundant dot in middleware.ts tokenizer char class
- Add lgtm suppression comments for false positives in test files
- Add unit tests for escapeHeaderSource
When a server component imports next/dynamic, the RSC serializer must
treat it as a client boundary. Without 'use client', the dynamic()
function executes inline in the RSC environment — for ssr:false, this
serializes null into the RSC payload and the client never loads the
component.
Adding 'use client' matches Next.js's App Router behavior where
next/dynamic is a client module. The RSC serializer emits a client
reference, and the client executes the full dynamic logic including
the ssr:false mount-on-client behavior.
Updated test fixtures that called dynamic() from server modules to
include 'use client' — this is required since dynamic() is now a
client export and can only be called from client modules.
Added E2E test for ssr:false from a server component page.