Recently was interested if and when Angular upgrades to a new release, as I found myself skipping release 17, and the update process can be a tiny bit troublesome if you skip a major version.
Angular has Semantic Versioning, and releases a new major version every 6 months. Angular 19 will possibly be out and about end of November 2024.
Luckily, from the references below, there's some things that I can hold on to:
- a major version may require a bit of work by the developer.
- a minor version can be installed without problems immediately. No developer assistance is expected during update. However, you can optionally decide to use new features in your code or change old features to use new stuff.
- a fix/patch version can be installed without problems immediately. No developer assistance is expected during update.
And GitHub tends to complain (a lot!) if my Angular projects are a tiny bit old, and there're Security concerns with the javascript dependencies Angular uses.
With that in mind, the following quote on the website seems very good to know:
"We only make npm dependency updates that require changes to your applications in a major release. In minor releases, we update peer dependencies by expanding the supported versions, but we do not require projects to update these dependencies until a future major version. This means that during minor Angular releases, npm dependency updates within Angular applications and libraries are optional."
References
- Angular - Roadmap
- https://angular.dev/roadmap
- Angular - Releases
- https://angular.dev/reference/releases
- GitHub - Angular Public API Surface
- https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/main/contributing-docs/public-api-surface.md
- Angular Blog
- https://blog.angular.dev/
- Angular Dev
- https://angular.dev/
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