Expo SDK 56 Is Out, and a Few Things Finally Clicked Into Place
Expo SDK 56 has been released, bringing significant updates including React Native 0.85 and improved build performance. The update features faster cold starts and a new Kotlin compiler plugin for Android, enhancing overall efficiency. Additionally, the Expo UI has stabilized, with new universal components and changes to the expo-router that developers need to be aware of.
- ▪SDK 56 includes React Native 0.85 and React 19.2, skipping version 0.84 for users upgrading from SDK 55.
- ▪Build times have improved, with median clean builds on iOS reduced by about one minute and cold starts on Android sped up by 40 percent.
- ▪The Expo UI has stabilized, introducing a universal component set that works across iOS, Android, and web.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/manthan_kasle/expo-sdk-56-is-out-and-a-few-things-finally-clicked-into-place-478h |
| Publication time | Sat, 23 May 2026 17:55:12 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-23T18:07:27.778Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-23T18:07:27.778Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 7FTraNoe8O1X |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3948068) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Manthan Kasle Posted on May 23 Expo SDK 56 Is Out, and a Few Things Finally Clicked Into Place #mobile #news #performance #reactnative React Native 0.85, much faster builds, and the one change that will probably break your imports._ Based on the official release notes: expo.dev/changelog/sdk-56 SDK 56 dropped on May 22, and I spent the weekend pulling one of my apps onto it.
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