Millions of developers use Next.js, and the issue tracker is one of the main ways we learn where they run into problems. It receives an average of 36 new reports each week.
Coding agents have made it easier to file detailed reports, which is great, but it also means a much higher volume of issues to review. For each one, we may need to reproduce the bug, test it across Next.js versions, and search years of pull requests and commits before we can decide what should happen to the report.
The backlog peaked at 3,109 open reports in January 2025. By August 10, 2026, it still had 2,244. Fixed bugs, duplicates, and reports about unsupported versions were burying current regressions.…
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