# Next.js v16.5.0-canary.37 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Next.js (https://nextjs.org)
- **Version:** v16.5.0-canary.37
- **Released:** Nov 02, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/nextjs/updates/v16.5.0-canary.37/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Next.js v16.5.0-canary.37. Source highlight: Add router.experimental_prepare(): #101050

## New Features
- Add router.experimental_prepare(): #101050
- [refactor] Remove obsolete RDC and PPR feature guards: #100827
- [no-unsafe-inline] Add an experimental flag for React's external browser runtime: #97570
- turbopack: experimental minify-before-chunking feature: #98760
- Don't count features behind a new experimental flag as public API: #101051
- docs: add turbo_tasks consistency guidance for agents: #100986

## Improvements
- docs: improve turbo_tasks consistency guidance for agents: #101055
- perf: use keyed invalidation for get_chunk_groups_for_module: #101034

## Bug Fixes
- Fix navigations rerendering fully static ISR pages in `next start`: #100854
- Fix revalidation for caches with short stale times: #101037
- fix(turbopack): invalidate lazy compilation state across sessions: #98867