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Retain a successful not-found match as the terminal shared boundary during navigation. Its completed context remains available while the destination loads, and hidden descendants are excluded from retention.

Regression coverage includes hydrated root context, returning from a layout-owned not-found page, and overlapping navigations where the displayed not-found boundary is deeper than the last committed boundary. The production fix is unchanged; this update rebases onto current main and adds the overlapping-navigation case.

Validation: router-core and react-router unit, type, and lint targets passed locally, as did all five pathless-layout Chromium tests. CodSpeed reports are known to be unstable and are not used to assess this change.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved navigation from not-found pages so route context and boundary UI remain available while destination data loads.
    • Cleared outdated not-found states when returning to valid routes, including nested layout scenarios.
    • Preserved the correct committed not-found boundary during deeper route transitions.
    • Prevented unnecessary loading-state flicker during hydration and navigation.
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    • Added regression coverage for hydrated, nested, and asynchronous navigation scenarios.
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    • Included patch updates for React, Solid, Vue, and core router packages.

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The client navigation logic now retains not-found matches through their retention boundary and follows successor transactions to completion. Regression tests cover hydrated root context and layout-owned fuzzy not-found navigation.

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Not-found retention

Layer / File(s)Summary
Retained-prefix and transaction handling
packages/router-core/src/load-client.ts
executeClientLane retains not-found matches before stopping. commitMatches preserves retained resources. Transaction completion follows successor transactions.
Hydrated root not-found regression
packages/react-router/tests/issue-8128-context.test.tsx
The test verifies preserved beforeLoad context, retained not-found rendering, and dashboard navigation after hydration.
Layout-owned not-found boundary regression
packages/react-router/tests/issue-8128-source-notfound-retention-boundary.test.tsx
The tests verify boundary clearing, boundary retention, pending content, and completed route loading during gated navigation.
Release metadata
.changeset/fuzzy-boundaries-remain.md
The changeset declares patch releases and documents terminal retention of successful not-found matches.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to 4019f

The navigation behavior is covered by new regressions, but one gated test can hang when an assertion fails before its gate is released, obscuring failures and reducing suite reliability. Release the gate before awaiting the navigation in cleanup.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Router
participant ClientLoader
participant RouteBoundary
participant Transaction
Router->>ClientLoader: start navigation
ClientLoader->>RouteBoundary: retain successful not-found match
ClientLoader->>Transaction: await successor transaction
Transaction-->>Router: complete destination navigation
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  • TanStack/router#8084: Related changes and tests cover retained-route and not-found pending behavior in load-client.ts.
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5 package(s) bumped directly, 18 bumped as dependents.

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⚡ 11 improved benchmarks
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Memorymem server request-churn (react)947.4 KB656.6 KB+44.3%
Memorymem server error-paths redirect (vue)502.5 KB411.7 KB+22.07%
Memorymem client navigation-churn (solid)795.9 KB721.5 KB+10.32%
Memorymem client unique-location-churn (vue)474.8 KB437.4 KB+8.57%
Simulationssr server-fn multipart (solid)144.4 ms137.3 ms+5.2%
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Memorymem client interrupted-navigations (vue)383 KB365.7 KB+4.74%
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Simulationssr global-mw document (solid)364.2 ms352 ms+3.44%
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For the Vitest version resolved by this repository, does onTestFinishedrun only after an async test function and itsfinally block have settled?

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