React end of life - what is this based on?

[stealthrabbi]

Link to product page on endoflife.date

https://endoflife.date/react

Details of incorrect and correct details you have found

I am not seeing anything official from React about an end of life date for their versions. What is the source of this. Is this page accurate?

What is the source website for the product and for its version information?

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Additional context

Suddenly the React page was updated to show support ended on Dec 5 2024, but the page was updated in January 30 2025, which seems suspect that the support dates are actually correct.

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[ljharb]

imo the default for all open source is that when the next major is released, the old one is immediately EOL. React hasn’t committed explicitly to supporting older release lines, so how could they be marked “supported”?

[hdep]

Hello,

please see : #6675 (comment)

[BiNZGi]

https://endoflife.date/react

Active Support: Only the latest release cycle gets non-critical bugfixes, and new features.

On 05 Dec 2024 react 19.0.0 was released and support for 18 ended.

https://react.dev/community/versioning-policy#all-release-channels

Both Latest and Canary channels are officially supported for user-facing applications

https://react.dev/community/versioning-policy#latest-channel

Latest is the channel used for stable React releases. It corresponds to the latest tag on npm. It is the recommended channel for all React apps that are shipped to real users.

There can be only one latest tag on npm, see https://www.npmjs.com/package/react?activeTab=versions.