Preact X - The Last Mile

As we’re getting really close to a release I thought it’d be good to make a list of remaining tasks to be done. Sort of like a release checklist like we had back in the ceviche repo before we went public. I think it helped us a lot in the final weeks.

I compiled a list of PRs that I think are a must have for the final release. We should be careful here not to fail victim of feature creep. It’s not like will stop publishing releases after that. Instead we’ll continue cutting new ones in our usual 2-3 weeks cycle.

Releasing X will ease our maintenance burden quiet a bit as we can finally deprecate preact-compat (it has moved to core at preact/compat) and allow the ecosystem to adapt.

PRs:

• Bypass props in hydration #1697
• ~~Suspense for SSR https://github.com/preactjs/preact-render-to-string/pull/92~~
• Evaluate approach to fix portals used in https://github.com/preactjs/preact/pull/1749

Docs:

• Write migration guide. We can reuse our release notes here, we just need to combine that into a single doc. - @marvinhagemeister Just checked, the initial X alpha.0 release notes are very complete. Can’t find anything to add
• Update differences to React page

Release:

• Publish preact-router@next as latest
• Publish preact-render-to-string@next as latest
• Publish preact-jsx-chai for X https://github.com/developit/preact-jsx-chai/pull/70

cc @andrewiggins @JoviDeCroock @developit @ForsakenHarmony @cristianbote

[pmkroeker]

Not that I can think of off hand. The biggest thing is to remind library authors that JSX will now need to be imported if it is used in their typings.

[marvinhagemeister]

Closing, Preact X was released a while back 🎉