[HN Gopher] React has not had a new release since June 2022
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       React has not had a new release since June 2022
        
       Author : danielandrews43
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2024-01-24 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | politelemon wrote:
       | 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
        
       | mikece wrote:
       | So... is React dead? :-)
        
       | acemarke wrote:
       | 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...
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       | - https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1719474730363662473
       | 
       | - https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii/status/1747338240099487877
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       | - 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".)
        
       | silverwind wrote:
       | Not looking forward to the next version assuming they will keep
       | the `fetch` monkeypatch:
       | 
       | - https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/72411c45f94565c30215b...
        
         | idbehold wrote:
         | Why the heck is a view library monkeypatching fetch??
        
       | hardcopy wrote:
       | React Forget is going to be huge. If I had to bet, it'll be
       | released in a beta at react conf in may.
        
       | nottorp wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | too bad theres *never* been an alternative \s
         | 
         | "Ember is committed to shipping new features without breaking
         | your existing applications. You get Long Term Support (LTS)
         | versions, a 6-week release cycle, and a strong commitment to
         | Semantic Versioning."
        
       | seydor wrote:
       | death by chatgpt
        
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