React has not had a new release since June 2022

React has not had a new release since June 2022(github.com)

23 points by danielandrews43 2 years ago | 10 comments

acemarke 2 years ago |

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".)

politelemon 2 years ago | |

I'd still expect some bug fixes though, or security updates?

Also I wonder if they ought to be using the 'prerelease' checkbox on Github. It lets you mark a release as not really a release, and maintains a history

silverwind 2 years ago |

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

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

idbehold 2 years ago | |

Why the heck is a view library monkeypatching fetch??

technion 2 years ago | | |

It stopped being a view library a while back. I mean server side components are now a major direction for the project.

politelemon 2 years ago |

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

nottorp 2 years ago |

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!

hmcq6 2 years ago | |

too bad theres *never* been an alternative \s

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hardcopy 2 years ago |

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

mikece 2 years ago |

So... is React dead? :-)