TanStack Query v5 released

October 18, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

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Announcing TanStack Query v5 โ€” Following a whopping 35 betas and 16 release candidates, the popular query-led declarative state management approach hits its latest milestone release with an improved and more consistent API, simpler optimistic updates, sharable mutation state, non-experimental Suspense support, new devtools, and more. (The migration guide shows all breaking changes.)

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