Release Notes
Announcements, retrospectives, and migration guides for ESLint React releases
Stay up-to-date with the latest features, breaking changes, and improvements in ESLint React. Each milestone comes with a detailed announcement, and major releases include a migration guide to help you upgrade smoothly.
Featured
- 2026-10-13 — v5.8.0–v5.26.5 Retrospective: A recap of five months of LTS maintenance: React Compiler alignment, fact-based rule architecture, web API leak detection hardening, and ecosystem compatibility.
Timeline
v5.x
- 2026-05-02 — Announcing v5.7.0: A maintenance release featuring the fully implemented no-unused-state rule and LTS maintenance mode.
- 2026-04-29 — Announcing v5.6.0: A major release featuring core API refactoring, kit API simplification, new rules, and class component support deprecation.
v4.x
- 2026-04-01 — Announcing v4.2.1: A major release introducing a dedicated JSX plugin, new utility package for custom rules, and flattened rule naming.
v3.x
- 2026-03-16 — Announcing v3.0.0: A major release with new rules ported from eslint-plugin-react-hooks, consolidated packages, and ESLint v10 support.
v2.x
- 2025-09-26 — Announcing v2.0.0: A major release embracing modern JavaScript standards with powerful new rules and DX improvements.