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 ## Unreleased
 
+* Avoid recreating DOM elements during hydration ([#6204](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/6204))
 * Add missing function overload for `derived` to allow explicitly setting an initial value for non-async derived stores ([#6172](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/6172))
 * Pass full markup source to script/style preprocessors ([#6169](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/6169))