- Fixed stale component styles in fallback dev environments and prevented directories prefixed with "pages" from being misinterpreted as page routes.
- Resolved multiple incremental build regressions: dropped optimized images, slow builds for large dependency graphs, and EMFILE errors by limiting concurrent image reads and adding retry/backoff logic.
- Improved dev server robustness by cleaning stale lock files after Docker restarts, corrected prerender conflict behavior handling, and fixed Fonts API hashing issues.