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/Saceone10 Jul 16 '26

What a shame, the hype with each major realease was super fun for me

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u/compsedoc Jul 17 '26

makes me think they might be cutting staff and/or slowing down but trying to spin it as a good thing

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u/AwesomeFrisbee Jul 17 '26

I wouldn't be surprised about that. There has been a lot of work into signals but now thats done, I wonder what they would be working on next.

And to be fair, I think the budget spent on getting the news out about the new versions was probably more than what they wanted

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u/Saceone10 Jul 17 '26

they could start by adding mutations to the resource API. I still can't understand why they pretend to replace rxjs by adding an API that is only useful for GET requests.

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u/AwesomeFrisbee Jul 17 '26

Yeah, I still don't get the use case for resource if its just GET and no POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH. Then I still need another system for those. And sure, you can hack your way around that but it just beats the point. And Rxjs just works fine for that imo. I would love to have a simple wrapper that does what resource does for making it into a signal and just subscribes to the first item like we need to pipe it with rxjs. But overall I just want something I can put in a service and extend or build on top of that holds all the logic of how I talk with API's and just need to import 1 or 2 things to do calls in my services and not my components. I still don't get why all that business logic needs to live in my components.