diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 72e5b14b..32339cbb 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "StaticArrays"
 uuid = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"
-version = "1.8.1"
+version = "1.8.2"
 
 [deps]
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
@@ -30,10 +30,11 @@ BenchmarkTools = "6e4b80f9-dd63-53aa-95a3-0cdb28fa8baf"
 ChainRulesCore = "d360d2e6-b24c-11e9-a2a3-2a2ae2dbcce4"
 ChainRulesTestUtils = "cdddcdb0-9152-4a09-a978-84456f9df70a"
 InteractiveUtils = "b77e0a4c-d291-57a0-90e8-8db25a27a240"
+JLArrays = "27aeb0d3-9eb9-45fb-866b-73c2ecf80fcb"
 OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
 Statistics = "10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 Unitful = "1986cc42-f94f-5a68-af5c-568840ba703d"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["InteractiveUtils", "Test", "BenchmarkTools", "OffsetArrays", "Statistics", "Unitful", "Aqua", "ChainRulesTestUtils", "ChainRulesCore"]
+test = ["InteractiveUtils", "Test", "BenchmarkTools", "OffsetArrays", "Statistics", "Unitful", "Aqua", "ChainRulesTestUtils", "ChainRulesCore", "JLArrays"]
diff --git a/ext/StaticArraysChainRulesCoreExt.jl b/ext/StaticArraysChainRulesCoreExt.jl
index f4ff0748..5f7904aa 100644
--- a/ext/StaticArraysChainRulesCoreExt.jl
+++ b/ext/StaticArraysChainRulesCoreExt.jl
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ end
 
 # Project SArray to SArray
 function ProjectTo(x::SArray{S, T}) where {S, T}
-    return ProjectTo{SArray}(; element = CRC._eltype_projectto(T), axes = S)
+    return ProjectTo{SArray}(; element = CRC._eltype_projectto(T), axes = Size(x))
 end
 
-function (project::ProjectTo{SArray})(dx::AbstractArray{S, M}) where {S, M}
-    return SArray{project.axes}(dx)
-end
+@inline _sarray_from_array(::Size{T}, dx::AbstractArray) where {T} = SArray{Tuple{T...}}(dx)
+
+(project::ProjectTo{SArray})(dx::AbstractArray) = _sarray_from_array(project.axes, dx)
 
 # Adjoint for SArray constructor
 function rrule(::Type{T}, x::Tuple) where {T <: SArray}
diff --git a/test/chainrules.jl b/test/chainrules.jl
index 2f01dc6b..7dbf8e8a 100644
--- a/test/chainrules.jl
+++ b/test/chainrules.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-using StaticArrays, ChainRulesCore, ChainRulesTestUtils, Test
+using StaticArrays, ChainRulesCore, ChainRulesTestUtils, JLArrays, Test
 
 @testset "Chain Rules Integration" begin
     @testset "Projection" begin
@@ -9,4 +9,28 @@ using StaticArrays, ChainRulesCore, ChainRulesTestUtils, Test
         test_rrule(SVector{4}, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
         test_rrule(SVector{4}, 1.0, 1.0f0, 1.0, 1.0f0)
     end
+
+    @testset "Type Stability" begin
+        x = ones(SMatrix{2, 2})
+        y = ones(SVector{4})
+
+        @inferred ProjectTo(x)
+        @inferred ProjectTo(y)
+        @inferred ProjectTo(x)(y)
+        @inferred ProjectTo(y)(x)
+
+        x = ones(SMatrix{2, 2, Float32})
+        y = ones(SVector{4})
+
+        @inferred ProjectTo(x)
+        @inferred ProjectTo(x)(y)
+        @inferred ProjectTo(y)(x)
+    end
+
+    @testset "Array of Structs Projection" begin
+        x = JLArray(rand(SVector{3, Float64}, 10))
+        @inferred ProjectTo(x)
+        @inferred Union{Nothing, JLVector{SVector{3, Float64}}, DenseJLVector{SVector{3, Float64}}} ProjectTo(x)(x)
+        @test ProjectTo(x)(x) isa JLArray
+    end
 end