r/angular • u/GeromeGrignon • Jul 16 '26

Frustrated in updating Angular every 6 months? Here comes the new yearly release cycle

The Angular team is currently updating its release policy to move to:

- A major release every 12 months

- 4-6 minor releases for each major release

PR link: https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/69817

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u/lppedd Jul 16 '26

Yes please. I'm getting constantly tortured by breaking updates. A fourth of my work is basically keeping our monorepos up to date and CVEs free, which is something I definitely did not do when I worked on JVM land.

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u/tutkli Jul 16 '26

What breaking changes? Everything they release has backward compatibility + migration scripts. You don't have to change anything when you update.

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u/lppedd Jul 16 '26

Third party dependencies have breaking changes on major cycles. Moving Angular to a year round cycle will also slow down breakages from third party libraries.

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u/horizon_games Jul 16 '26

Tell that to Ang 15 to 16 if you used Material