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VITEPRESS FIXES SEARCH LOCALIZATION AND REWRITE HANDLING ACROSS FOUR CRITICAL PATHS

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VitePress shipped fixes for locale-aware search indexing, Windows drive letter normalization, and sidebar link resolution that were breaking sites using rewrites and multi-language setups.

The headline fix lands in local search: pages using rewritten paths now map to the correct locale index instead of landing in root, solving the problem for sites that keep source files outside locale directories [1]. That same rewrite system broke on Windows when Vite reported uppercase drive letters from lowercase working directories, but normalization of just the drive prefix keeps paths stable across case mismatches [2]. Sidebar links with configured base paths were getting the base applied to external URLs, which snapped them in half; that's fixed, with external links now skipping base resolution entirely [3]. A separate fix ensures heading anchors work when the included Markdown file has frontmatter by stripping it before both the heading lookup and the line slice [4]. These are all in flight but not shipped yet.

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  1. [1] fix: index rewritten local search pages by locale ↗ vuejs/vitepress
  2. [2] fix(build): normalize rewrite drive letters ↗ vuejs/vitepress
  3. [3] fix: preserve external sidebar links with base ↗ vuejs/vitepress
  4. [4] fix: strip frontmatter before heading includes ↗ vuejs/vitepress

Quick answers

What shipped in Vue.js on June 29, 2026?
VitePress shipped fixes for locale-aware search indexing, Windows drive letter normalization, and sidebar link resolution that were breaking sites using rewrites and multi-language setups. In total, 8 commits and 8 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Vue.js on June 29, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including cookesan.
What were the notable Vue.js updates?
fix: index rewritten local search pages by locale, fix(build): normalize rewrite drive letters, and fix: preserve external sidebar links with base.

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