v16.1.0

16.1.0 (November 9, 2017)

Discontinuing Bower Releases

Starting with 16.1.0, we will no longer be publishing new releases on Bower. You can continue using Bower for old releases, or point your Bower configs to the React UMD builds hosted on unpkg that mirror npm releases and will continue to be updated.

All Packages

• Fix an accidental extra global variable in the UMD builds. (@gaearon in #10935)

React

• Add support for portals in React.Children utilities. (@MatteoVH in #11378)
• Warn when a class has a render method but doesn't extend a known base class. (@sw-yx in #11168)
• Improve the warning when accidentally returning an object from constructor. (@deanbrophy in #11395)

React DOM

• Allow on as a custom attribute for AMP. (@nuc in #11153)
• Fix onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave firing on wrong elements. (@gaearon in #11164)
• Fix null showing up in a warning instead of the component stack. (@gaearon in #10915)
• Fix IE11 crash in development mode. (@leidegre in #10921)
• Fix tabIndex not getting applied to SVG elements. (@gaearon in #11034)
• Fix SVG children not getting cleaned up on dangerouslySetInnerHTML in IE. (@OriR in #11108)
• Fix false positive text mismatch warning caused by newline normalization. (@gaearon in #11119)
• Fix form.reset() to respect defaultValue on uncontrolled <select>. (@aweary in #11057)
• Fix <textarea> placeholder not rendering on IE11. (@gaearon in #11177)
• Fix a crash rendering into shadow root. (@gaearon in #11037)
• Fix false positive warning about hydrating mixed case SVG tags. (@gaearon in #11174)
• Suppress the new unknown tag warning for <dialog> element. (@gaearon in #11035)
• Warn when defining a non-existent componentDidReceiveProps method. (@iamtommcc in #11479)
• Warn about function child no more than once. (@andreysaleba in #11120)
• Warn about nested updates no more than once. (@anushreesubramani in #11113)
• Deduplicate other warnings about updates. (@anushreesubramani in #11216)
• Include component stack into the warning about contentEditable and children. (@Ethan-Arrowood in #11208)
• Improve the warning about booleans passed to event handlers. (@NicBonetto in #11308)
• Improve the warning when a multiple select gets null value. (@Hendeca in #11141)
• Move link in the warning message to avoid redirect. (@marciovicente in #11400)
• Add a way to suppress the React DevTools installation prompt. (@gaearon in #11448)
• Remove unused code. (@gaearon in #10802, #10803)

React DOM Server

• Add a new suppressHydrationWarning attribute for intentional client/server text mismatches. (@sebmarkbage in #11126)
• Fix markup generation when components return strings. (@gaearon in #11109)
• Fix obscure error message when passing an invalid style value. (@iamdustan in #11173)
• Include the autoFocus attribute into SSR markup. (@gaearon in #11192)
• Include the component stack into more warnings. (@gaearon in #11284)

React Test Renderer and Test Utils

• Fix multiple setState() calls in componentWillMount() in shallow renderer. (@Hypnosphi in #11167)
• Fix shallow renderer to ignore shouldComponentUpdate() after forceUpdate(). (@d4rky-pl in #11239 and #11439)
• Handle forceUpdate() and React.PureComponent correctly. (@koba04 in #11440)
• Add back support for running in production mode. (@gaearon in #11112)
• Add a missing package.json dependency. (@gaearon in #11340)

React ART

• Add a missing package.json dependency. (@gaearon in #11341)
• Expose react-art/Circle, react-art/Rectangle, and react-art/Wedge. (@gaearon in #11343)

React Reconciler (Experimental)

• First release of the new experimental package for creating custom renderers. (@iamdustan in #10758)
• Add support for React DevTools. (@gaearon in #11463)

React Call Return (Experimental)

• First release of the new experimental package for parent-child communication. (@gaearon in #11364)