Question: future releases?

[helenanderson]

Hi, folks! It seems like this repo is still pretty active, but I notice there hasn't been an official release for over a year. Are there plans for future releases, or are they totally on hold? Any info would be appreciated. Thank you!

[Daniel15]

Hey Helen, I'll follow up internally at Facebook to see who's handling releases of Draft.js these days. I think Flarnie was going to work on this, but she's no longer at Facebook.

[claudiopro]

Hi @helenanderson, thanks for bringing up this question. We are planning to publish a release in the coming weeks. Currently we Draft.js maintainers at Facebook are volunteering our spare time to respond to critical issues and keep the project alive, and may not be able to move as fast as we would like. Thanks for understanding!

[helenanderson]

@Daniel15 @claudiopro Thanks for following up on this! I'll keep an eye out for the new release. Appreciate your time :)

[claudiopro]

Following up, I made some time to publish the current master as 0.11.0-beta with tag next on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/draft-js/v/0.11.0-beta

Please install with yarn add draft-js@next or npm install --save draft-js@next and try it out! Let us know of any issues or comments here on the repo 😄

[carlosagsmendes]

Thank you @claudiopro. You mentioned that you are using your spare time to respond to critical issues and keep the project alive. Is it no longer being used by FB?

[Daniel15]

@carlosagsmendes It's still used a lot at Facebook - the comments box and "Notes" feature on the Facebook site both use it, as well as a lot of internal tools (we have heavily-used internal task management, note taking, and performance review tools that all use it). However I think not a lot of work is being done on it, as it already has most of the features that those use cases require.

[steida]

@Daniel15 Thank you for the answer. Btw, does Facebook plan to use DraftJS on mobile devices?

[Daniel15]

There was an attempt at using DraftJS on the mobile site, but if I remember correctly there were several issues/bugs with contentEditable on Android, so that was rolled back. I'm not sure whether there's any plans for mobile at the moment.

[fabiomcosta]

@steida there is some work being done to make draft-js work on mobile at #2035, any help testing that PR is really appreciated.

@Daniel15 any internal help from Facebook on moving that PR forward to getting merged is also super appreciated. It feels super solid on Android at this point, but as said before, any further help testing it would be highly appreciated.

[claudiopro]

Bumping this issue up for visibility, I'm pretty happy by the lack of negative feedback on v0.11.0-beta besides known issues with the deprecation of DraftEntity regressing from the previous v0.11.0-alpha branch (#2038, #2043), and broken flow types in master addressed with #2027.

As things stand, we are planning to release v0.11.0 in mid April. Stay tuned for an announcement!

[thibaudcolas]

@claudiopro it's a bit hard to meaningfully review the changes between v0.10.5 and the latest v0.11 beta since there's been so many commits (225 if I counted this right). Could you share a changelog / release notes for v0.11, so we know what to test exactly?

In particular it would be nice to have breaking changes highlighted (if any?). A lot of third-party Draft.js projects declare a peer dependency on draft-js@^0.10.5, so v0.11 would be outside of this range and those projects will need to upgrade at least their peerDependency requirements, hopefully being able to support both 0.10 and 0.11.