Essential Next.js plugin v4 release notes

This is a full rewrite of the Essential Next.js plugin, with a new architecture that gives greater compatibility and stability.

What's new

Full support for Next.js rewrites, redirects and headers.
Removes requirement for the target to be set to serverless, which is deprecated in Next 12.
Faster builds and deploys. Instead of generating one function per route, there are just three functions per site and a much smaller list of rewrites.
Bundling now uses Next.js's own node-file-trace, giving more predictable results and smaller uploads.
Full support for Netlify's new persistent On-Demand Builders. Return fallback: "blocking" from getStaticPaths and your rendering will be deferred until the first page load, then persisted globally.
A new image server, built on Nuxt's ipx. This is a high-performance, framework-agnostic image server based on sharp. This implementation uses On-Demand Builders to persist transformed images globally. Improved source image caching reduces time-to-first-byte for new transforms.
Simplified configuration. You no longer need to set any Netlify-specific configuration options. For example, in a monorepo all you need to do is set publish to point to your .next directory and you can build the site in any way you like.

If you would like to try the beta, you should install it manually like this:

npm install -D @netlify/plugin-nextjs@beta

Change the publish directory to .next and add the plugin to netlify.toml if not already installed:

[build]
publish = ".next"

[[plugins]]
package = "@netlify/plugin-nextjs"