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Slapbox

Expo generally lags well behind on React Native, but I'm hoping that won't mean a multi-year wait for React 18 support.

April 21, 2022

Phil Hannent

Interestingly React 18 is targetted at RN 0.69: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/33696#issuecomment-1108605214

Michael Wood

Phil Hannent: I would guess we could expect it in Expo in SDK 46 then.

Kim Brandwijk

The upcoming SDK 45 release will use React Native 0.68, which is the latest release. This RN version doesn't support React 18 yet, as mentioned in the React 18 post here which was published just days before RN 0.68 shipped.

We fully expect to continue to track more closely with RN releases in future SDK versions, but as React 18 has not landed in any RN release yet, we can't make any statements beyond that.

Slapbox

Kim Brandwijk: Thanks very much for your reply! I'm glad to hear Expo is catching up on RN versions as that's the real crux of my request.

Derk-Jan Karrenbeld

Slapbox: With eas you often can already "bump forward" (with caveats) as expo no longer requires the special expo fork.