Plans to upgrade from React Native 70?

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💬 Question

React Native 75 is the latest stable as of last week. That means RN 69 is no longer maintained, and RN 70 will be next on the chopping block when RN 76 releases.

Today, if you happen to use @sentry/react-native, the versions that work with RN 70 will not compile in Xcode 16 which will soon be released and prevent UI Kitten users from uploading builds that support iOS 18.

It will solve a lot of headaches if UI Kitten upgraded to at least React Native 72, and will prevent build issues like this for a while.

As far as I can tell, UI Kitten initializes with RN 70, and there are a lot of existing issues related to upgrading to RN 72+ while using UI Kitten.

edit: I did have some success getting UI Kitten to work with Expo SDK 50 and RN 75 for what it's worth. I think in general the ecosystem is moving towards Expo, even the RN team now officially endorses it as the go-to framework for RN development.

UI Kitten and Eva version

Package	Version
@eva-design/eva	^2.2.0
@ui-kitten/components	^5.3.1