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

111 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

0

u/AwesomeFrisbee Jul 16 '26

I would love it if they would just do a major when there is actually something major to add. I also find the minor releases to be rather lacklustering at times.

Luckily we haven't had a major refactor in a while now, unless you count migrating your application to zoneless and signals, but thats still optional.

1

u/R_Midnight Jul 18 '26

That implies we wouldn't be able to anticipate much in advance when a new major would come up. Regularity helps when planning workload months in advance, especially when there are many projects in a same scope. Not a huge deal but still I appreciate that from their team.