#Build Tools

Vite 6 was released on November 26, 2024, introducing the experimental Environment API to give framework authors a dev experience closer to production, while the project continued its move toward a Rust-based toolchain. Here is what changed.

Vite 5 was released on November 16, 2023, upgrading to Rollup 4 for faster builds, cleaning up its API, deprecating the CommonJS Node API, requiring Node.js 18 or later, and adding a server warmup feature. Here is what changed.

Vite 4 was released on December 9, 2022, upgrading to Rollup 3, adding a new SWC-based React plugin for faster cold starts and hot module replacement, and reducing its install size by 23 percent. Here is what changed.