Instant navigation not working when using mike versioning with alias

[kimdre]

Context

I have the following site versions using your fork of mike with latest being the default alias that I try to get working with alias-type symlink (the default mode):

• next
• v0.81 [latest]
• v0.80

Bug description

When I visit my site at the domain example.com and then get redirected to example.com/latest/ (the default alias), the instant navigation (especially instant prefetching and instant previews (with automatic previews)) do not work.
When I visit the site on the version behind latest directly (in my case example.com/v0.81/), the features work fine.

I think this is caused because the sitemap.xml is built with urls being something like example.com/v0.81/foo instead of example.com/latest/foo

Using the alias type redirect in mike (which does a 301 html redirect latest -> v0.81 works, but I would prefer to use alias-type symlink if possible.

Related links

• Report a bug
• https://github.com/squidfunk/mike
• https://zensical.org/docs/setup/versioning/
• https://zensical.org/docs/setup/navigation/#instant-navigation

Reproduction

• See the following commit created by mike: https://github.com/kimdre/doco-cd/tree/a9143c3a58edcdeccce24db52105bac086e758b3
• Docs source code: https://github.com/kimdre/doco-cd/tree/dada7e37a5369bcf7059c853a9c2e8a1406f41a4/wiki

Set in zensical.toml:

[project]
site_url = "https://example.com/"

[project.extra.version]
provider = "mike"
default = "latest"
alias = true

Versions

• next -> works
• v0.81 directly -> works
• v0.81 behind latest alias -> not working
• v0.80 -> works

Steps to reproduce

1. Create docs version with alias: mike deploy --push --update-aliases v0.81 latest
2. Set default mike set-default --push latest
3. Run server mike serve or deploy to production
4. Visit the site on / or /latest/
5. Check for tooltips when hovering over links and check network tab in browser dev tools for loading pages
6. Check urls in sitemap.xml

Browser

Chrome

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[squidfunk]

Thanks for reporting. Moving to UI repository, since instant navigation is a frontend feature.