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React has not had a new release since June 2022

by danielandrews43 on 1/24/24, 7:08 PM with 10 comments

• by acemarke on 1/24/24, 7:55 PM

  React has not had a _stable_ release since June 2022.

  They publish "experimental" releases on a near-daily basis, and have had numerous "canary" releases.

  They talked about the "canary" strategy early in 2023:

  - https://react.dev/blog/2023/05/03/react-canaries

  The React team has recently started discussing plans for React 19, which is in the works:

  - https://twitter.com/sebastienlorber/status/17476337983746255...

  - https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1719474730363662473

  - https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii/status/1747338240099487877

  - https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11347#issuecomment-...

  (to be clear, I've been pretty vocal about the lack of a stable release and the annoying versioning strategy myself. but React is very much _not_ "dead".)

• by silverwind on 1/24/24, 9:54 PM

  Not looking forward to the next version assuming they will keep the `fetch` monkeypatch:

  - https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/72411c45f94565c30215b...

• by politelemon on 1/24/24, 7:13 PM

  OK that's kind of interesting, as I would have expected at least some bug fixes and minor updates?

  They do have a lot of PRs merged, and on their npm page I see many canary versions though: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react?activeTab=versions

  Maybe someone could enlighten what's happening

• by nottorp on 1/24/24, 10:33 PM

  Holy Ahriman. How can you use a library that hasn't had 10 updates in the past 36 hours? Time to switch to the new hotness!

• by hardcopy on 1/24/24, 10:22 PM

  React Forget is going to be huge. If I had to bet, it'll be released in a beta at react conf in may.

• by mikece on 1/24/24, 7:34 PM

  So... is React dead? :-)