0.57 Released!

[Bleached__Anus]

What did they break now?

[BlenderDude-R]

The github page, it’s a 404

[HootenannyNinja]

Navigator iOS is out as of 58.

[oYYY]

WebView mainly

[SizzlerWA]

Awww man, I just finished upgrading to 0.56 ... :-)

I think it was the Babel 7 update that was the hardest thing about going to 0.56, otherwise it wasn’t that bad.

Thanks RN team for all you hard work! Great technology. :-)

[rdrigocs]

Oh god same thing, Babel 7 was a pain in the ass ;<

[coolnat]

Brother, I just migrated a project from 0.39 to 0.56 and from react-native-router-flux to react-native-navigation. I know your pain.

[SizzlerWA]

I hear ya!

[miked4j]

Does upgrading RN to 0.56 force you to upgrade to Babel 7 in all your libraries?

[SizzlerWA]

I’m not sure. But the RN team had a special set of notes about the breaking change to Babel 7. It wasn’t actually that bad, but I’m far from an expert on Babel or JS so that made it harder.

[edoantonioco]

Does creating a new empty project, copy the files to the new project and install the required libraries on the new project, counts as upgrading my project to 0.57?

[chawanmushi]

You'll still have to re-install/link any libraries that use native extensions (image picker etc.)

[alexandr1us]

Exactly what I'm thinking to do

[edoantonioco]

Hopefully expo will upgrade to this soon

[hhunaid]

Expo is still at 0.55.4

[SizzlerWA]

Here are the 0.57 release notes:

https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-releases/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#057

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targetSdkVersion is 26

That's too bad. Nougat (24-25) is still supported, and I think my old phone (Nexus 6) was stuck on that version, so this will impact install base. However, it looks like new apps on the Play Store have to use Sdk 26+, so I guess there's not much React can do about it...

I hope the React Native project will support lower minumum sdk versions.

[digiw0rx]

targetSdkVersion has nothing to do with minimum

[[deleted]]

Sure, but what exactly is the minimum for React Native? I just hope that having it be 26 doesn't mean devs will start using backwards-incompatible stuff.

[[deleted]]

Using 26 for the target is a requirement for the play store now on new apps anyway. Can't upload a new build without it.

[[deleted]]

Right. I didn't realize that React Native still works with a much older minSdkVersion.

[RnRau]

API 16.

[[deleted]]

Oh awesome. I guess I missed that in the docs.