--- title: "TanStack Query v5 released" publication: "React Status" issue: 358 published_at: "2023-10-18" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/358" --- Plus rotary controls, a new static site generator, and correcting some memoization misconceptions. | #​358 — October 18, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/358) ✍️ If you were wondering, you didn't miss an issue of the newsletter last week – I took a week's break while attending a conference, but now we're back in action every week until... 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Tim Pillard ▶[React Forget: React for Developers _and_ Compilers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOacmVsLSE) — A React core team member went deep at React India two weeks ago with a look at why React’s model is well suited for targeting by compilers and static analysis tools, but also _why_ the React team are even building a compiler (the long teased [React Forget](https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/13px834/dan_abramov_react_core_team_discuss_rsc_react/)) in the first place. 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Frontend Masters sponsor [Announcing TanStack Query v5](https://tanstack.com/blog/announcing-tanstack-query-v5) — 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](https://tanstack.com/query/v5/docs/react/guides/migrating-to-v5) shows all breaking changes.) Tanner Linsley _IN BRIEF:_ - 🕹 The next [React Jam gamedev event](https://reactjam.com/) starts tomorrow (October 19). You get ten days to create a game that uses React in some way. Need inspiration? Here are [the winners from last time.](https://summer-2023.reactjam.com/winners) - [Lit 3.0](https://lit.dev/blog/2023-10-10-lit-3.0/#lit-3.0) was released and provides a way to build modern web components, on top of web standards. As part of this, work is ongoing to [integrate Lit with React](https://lit.dev/blog/2023-10-10-lit-3.0/#react) so you can use wrapped Web Components in React apps too. [More on that here.](https://lit.dev/docs/frameworks/react/) - Notes from a recent talk by Misko Hevery (of Angular and Qwik fame) on [how different JavaScript frameworks handle reactivity.](https://thenewstack.io/angular-qwik-creator-on-how-js-frameworks-handle-reactivity/) - 📅 Jack Herrington will be live streaming [React Advanced London 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn_L56ypX1A) this Friday. You can set a notification on YouTube already or learn [more about the event here.](https://reactadvanced.com/) - Vercel now has a way to [manage your spending](https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtime-usage-alerts-sms-notifications) with them. 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Alex Sergey [Rspress 1.0: A Fast Rspack-based Static Site Generator](https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rspress) — A React and MDX-based static site generator which now boasts big performance gains against its main competition in [its 1.0 release notes.](https://github.com/orgs/web-infra-dev/discussions/5) There’s also a [quick start tutorial.](https://rspress.dev/guide/start/getting-started.html) ByteDance 📰 Classifieds 🎟️ [CityJS Berlin](https://berlin.cityjsconf.org) - 1-3 November. Hear Rachel Nabors tell the design and development story of the all-new React docs at react.dev. Use `COMMUNITY` discount code to save 25%. --- 💻 Hired makes job hunting easy-instead of chasing recruiters, companies approach you with salary details up front. [Create a free profile now](https://hired.com/join/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=%28b2c%29%28l-all%29%28r-all%29%28cooper-reactstatus%29&utm_content=find-your-next-job). [react-quick-pinch-zoom 5.0: Zoom and Drag any DOM Element with Multi-Touch Gestures](https://github.com/retyui/react-quick-pinch-zoom) — Suits mobile, naturally, but can also support mouse events on desktop. Want a demo? [Here you go.](https://react-quick-pinch-zoom.netlify.app/) David Narbutovich [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/hxwf8twvbva8pnneaeos.jpg)](https://recharts.org/en-US/) - [Recharts 2.9](https://github.com/recharts/recharts/releases/tag/v2.9.0) – A chart library built on top of D3. The [homepage](https://recharts.org/en-US/) has examples and demos (as above). - [D-Tale 3.7](https://github.com/man-group/dtale) – React-powered visualization for Pandas data structures. (One for the Pythonistas among you.) - [React Menu 4.1](https://szhsin.github.io/react-menu/) – Unstyled, lightweight React menu components. - [OverlayScrollbars 2.4](https://github.com/KingSora/OverlayScrollbars) – Provides custom styleable overlay scrollbars. - [React Uploady 1.6](https://github.com/rpldy/react-uploady) – Components and hooks for file uploading. - [gluestack-ui 1.0](https://gluestack.io/ui/v1) – Accessible UI components for React Native and Web. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/gluestack/gluestack-ui) - [React Native Big Calendar 4.5](https://github.com/acro5piano/react-native-big-calendar) - [Legend State 2.0](https://legendapp.com/open-source/legend-state-v2/) This issue was curated by Terence C. Gannon and Peter Cooper and edited by the Cooperpress team. A **[Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/)** publication. 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