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v16.3.0

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React·8 years ago · Mar 29, 2018, 08:57 PMDeprecationMay break your integrationAI-assisted summary

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Introduce new officially supported Context API, React.createRef, React.forwardRef, and StrictMode to aid async rendering
Add new lifecycle methods (getDerivedStateFromProps, getSnapshotBeforeUpdate) with UNSAFE aliases, plus new utility packages (ReactIs, React Lifecycles Compat, Create Subscription, experimental Reconciler)
Fix assorted browser and SSR bugs, improve error messages, and deprecate ReactDOM.unstable_createPortal in favor of the stable createPortal API

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