Learn how to incrementally upgrade the Expo SDK version in your project.

Upgrade to Expo SDK 54 with React Native 0.81, Reanimated v4, Android API 36, and iOS 26 support. Learn key changes, tips, and migration advice.

It communicates with the configured remote update service to get information about available updates. The expo-updates library can be automatically configured using EAS Update, which is a hosted service that manages and serves updates to your app.

March 9, 2024 - Seemed like there would be an unmatch between Expo and react-native-wifi-reborn. So I checked the changelog of react-native-wifi-reborn and I found the changes on its compile-SDK version. ... So I updated the package above than the change, in this case, I updated it to the latest.

Upgrade the project packages and config for the given SDK version

# Remove node_modules and reinstall rm -rf node_modules npm install # If that doesn't work, also delete your lockfile rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json # or yarn.lock npm install # Clear Metro cache npx expo start -c ... If you encounter ...

... Deploy the native runtime to ... for testing react-native examples agains the new runtime) Add new SDK version to snack/packages/snack-content/src/sdks/types.ts...

Hi there, Was just wondering what is involved in updating / upgrading the underlying expo SDK for a project build using Draftbit Looking at my package.json I can see that a new project I started the other day is now listed as using Expo SDK 40 In t...

Upgrading your Expo project to a new version of React Native requires updating the react-native, react, and expo package versions in your package.json file. Expo recommends upgrading SDK versions incrementally, one at a time. Doing so will help ...

Ordinarily upgrading Expo apps is a simple process with basic concerns. But the New Architecture adds a layer of complexity, particularly for Expo Go users.

September 10, 2025 - SDK 54 is now out of beta and generally available. There are a lot of headline features including a precompiled copy of react-native for iOS, Liquid Glass on iOS 26, Android edge-to-edge UI on by default, built-in Blob, built-in TextEncoderStream and TextDecoderStream, built-in localStorage in Expo SQLite, a new development build UI, a new autolinking algorithm that works better with monorepos, tidier error messages for broken imports, link previews in

View file-by-file diffs of all the changes you need to make to your native projects to upgrade them to the next Expo SDK version.

October 19, 2025 - This guide summarizes real-world issues encountered during an upgrade to Expo SDK 54, and how to fix each one step-by-step. Before you start, make sure your environment matches SDK 54’s requirements:

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The Expo SDK provides access to device and system functionality such as contacts, camera, gyroscope, GPS location, and so on, in the form of packages. You can install any Expo SDK package using the npx expo install command.

People generally don't complain about updates, especially if you use development builds. If you don't, it's all about applying changes necessary for React Native, not Expo where you usually just need to upgrade the expo package and then run npx expo install --fix to upgrade other SDK packages.

Expo SDK 48 includes React Native 0.71.3 and React 18.2.0.

The Expo SDK. Latest version: 54.0.29, last published: 5 days ago. Start using expo in your project by running `npm i expo`. There are 1731 other projects in the npm registry using expo.