Releases of the next-generation frontend tooling.
Vite 8.1 is out! June 23, 2026 Vite 8 was released in March with a single unified bundler powered by Rolldown , opening the door to further improvements. It is now seeing 41.6 million weekly downloads, almost reaching the total downloads of Vite 7. Alongside resolving upgrade regressions, we've been working on new…
Cloudflare supports Vite's mission June 4, 2026 Today marks the start of a new stage for Vite. VoidZero is joining Cloudflare. You can read the full story from Evan You in VoidZero's announcement . In Cloudflare's blog post , they explain why they are investing in the Vite stack, which has now become part of the…
Vite 8.0 is out! March 12, 2026 We're thrilled to announce the stable release of Vite 8! When Vite first launched, we made a pragmatic bet on two bundlers: esbuild for speed during development, and Rollup for optimized production builds. That bet served us well for years. We're very grateful to the Rollup and…
Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown powered Vite December 3, 2025 TL;DR: The first beta of Vite 8, powered by Rolldown , is now available. Vite 8 ships significantly faster production builds and unlocks future improvement possibilities. You can try the new release by upgrading vite to version 8.0.0 beta.0 and reading the…
Vite 7.0 is out! June 24, 2025 We're happy to share the release of Vite 7! It has been 5 years since Evan You sent the first commit to the Vite repo, and nobody could have predicted how much the frontend ecosystem would change since then. Most modern frontend frameworks and tools are now working together, building…
Vite 6.0 is out! November 26, 2024 Today, we're taking another big step in Vite's story. The Vite team , contributors , and ecosystem partners are excited to announce the release of Vite 6. It has been an eventful year. Vite adoption keeps growing, with npm downloads per week jumping from 7.5 million to 17 million…
Vite 5.1 is out! February 8, 2024 Vite 5 was released last November, and it represented another big leap for Vite and the ecosystem. A few weeks ago we celebrated 10 million weekly npm downloads and 900 contributors to the Vite repo. Today, we're excited to announce the release of Vite 5.1. Quick links: Docs ,…
Vite 5.0 is out! November 16, 2023 Vite 4 was released almost a year ago, and it served as a solid base for the ecosystem. npm downloads per week jumped from 2.5 million to 7.5 million, as projects keep building on a shared infrastructure. Frameworks continued to innovate, and on top of Astro , Nuxt , SvelteKit ,…
Vite 4.3 is out! April 20, 2023 Quick links: Docs: English , 简体中文 , 日本語 , Español , Português Vite 4.3 Changelog Performance Improvements In this minor, we focused on improving the dev server performance. The resolve logic got streamlined, improving hot paths and implementing smarter caching for finding…
Vite 4.0 is out! December 9, 2022 Check out the Vite 5.0 announcement Vite 3 was released five months ago. npm downloads per week have gone from 1 million to 2.5 million since then. The ecosystem has matured too, and continues to grow. In this year's Jamstack Conf survey , usage among the community jumped from 14%…
Vite 3.0 is out! July 23, 2022 Check out the Vite 4.0 announcement In February last year, Evan You released Vite 2. Since then, its adoption has grown non stop, reaching more than 1 million npm downloads per week. A sprawling ecosystem rapidly formed after the release. Vite is powering a renewed innovation race in…
Announcing Vite 2.0 February 16, 2021 Check out the Vite 3.0 announcement Today we are excited to announce the official release of Vite 2.0! Vite (French word for "fast", pronounced /vit/ ) is a new kind of build tool for frontend web development. Think a pre configured dev server + bundler combo, but leaner and…
