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Today, when a Server Action request reaches a route whose worker does not bundle that action, Next.js consults the Server Action manifest and internally forwards the request to another worker. It has caused correctness issues and miscellaneous bugs because the action executes under a different route and request context.

The preceding PR adds direct action dispatch: the client learns which route owns an action and sends the request directly to that route.

With direct dispatch in place, this removes the internal forwarding request, worker-selection logic, and x-action-forwarded handling. A valid action sent to the wrong route now returns the standard action-not-found response instead of being forwarded.

Supersedes #90549

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Failing test suites

Commit: 9d50cbb | About building and testing Next.js

pnpm test-start-turbo test/production/app-dir/actions-tree-shaking/reexport/reexport.test.ts (turbopack) (job)

  • actions-tree-shaking - reexport > should keep all the action exports for namespace export case on client layer (DD)
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● actions-tree-shaking - reexport › should keep all the action exports for namespace export case on client layer

expect(received).toContain(expected) // indexOf

Expected substring: "action: test-2"
Received string:    "action: test-1
Error: Failed to find Server Action \"00f8a3d9f526a2b379dd05060cd616944ef8eab30d\". This request might be from an older or newer deployment.
Read more: https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/failed-to-find-server-action

  at k (../.next/server/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__20hlbgu._.js:10:52314)
  at Object.get (../.next/server/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__20hlbgu._.js:12:3249)
  at async l (../.next/server/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__1hydqiu._.js:1:11038)
  "
  at toContain (production/app-dir/actions-tree-shaking/reexport/reexport.test.ts:62:24)
  at fn (lib/next-test-utils.ts:868:20)
  at Object.<anonymous> (production/app-dir/actions-tree-shaking/reexport/reexport.test.ts:60:7)

pnpm test-start-turbo test/production/app-dir/actions-tree-shaking/reexport/reexport-edge.test.ts (turbopack) (job)

  • actions-tree-shaking - reexport > should keep all the action exports for namespace export case on client layer (DD)
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● actions-tree-shaking - reexport › should keep all the action exports for namespace export case on client layer

expect(received).toContain(expected) // indexOf

Expected substring: "action: test-2"
Received string:    "action: test-1
Error: Failed to find Server Action \"0002c971ea765fd474e6f6dc1381461314fc2ff1d8\". This request might be from an older or newer deployment.
Read more: https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/failed-to-find-server-action

  at k (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__08ywo0k._.js:1:56941)
  at Object.get (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__08ywo0k._.js:3:3249)
  at b2 (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__122mzqp._.js:15:2963)
  at <unknown> (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__122mzqp._.js:14:343)
  at b0 (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__122mzqp._.js:12:15977)
  at fI (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__122mzqp._.js:49:33904)
  at fJ (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__122mzqp._.js:49:34939)
  at async aw (../.next/server/edge/chunks/ssr/[root-of-the-server]__122mzqp._.js:52:18773) {···
  }
  "
  at toContain (production/app-dir/actions-tree-shaking/reexport/reexport.test.ts:62:24)
  at fn (lib/next-test-utils.ts:868:20)
  at Object.<anonymous> (production/app-dir/actions-tree-shaking/reexport/reexport.test.ts:60:7)

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Removing Server Action forwarding breaks invoking a server action obtained indirectly at runtime (returned from another action) from a route that does not register that action, causing "Failed to find Server Action"/404 instead of executing it.

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