We've continued working on React Navigation 8.0 since the March progress report. Since then, we've released many refinements, improvements and new features.
This post covers the highlights that landed since March 2026.
There are a few ways to make an app feel more alive, and I'm a big believer that motion is one of them.
Most people already know their OS animations by muscle memory. That's why a custom transition can land so well: used in the right place, it breaks the routine just enough to make a flow feel intentional.
react-native-screen-transitions is a React Navigation transition toolkit for flows that need more control over navigation motion. In this article, we'll recreate an iOS-style page transition, then build up to a bounds-driven navigation.zoom() flow.
We've been busy since the first alpha release of React Navigation 8.0. Our main focuses have been improving the DX around deep linking and TypeScript, and using modern features and patterns such as React.Activity and other React features such as Suspense, React Native features as PlatformColor, validation with Standard Schema etc.
This post covers the features and improvements that landed since the first alpha release back in December 2025.
We're excited to announce the first alpha release of React Navigation 8.0.
For this release, we tried to minimize large breaking changes when possible, and focused on improvements such as better TypeScript types, native bottom tabs as the default, and various other new features. There are many more improvements planned for the final release.
This is a guest post by Oskar Kwaśniewski, creator of react-native-bottom-tabs, a library exposing native tab primitives that integrates with React Navigation. If you like this guide, check out the react-native-bottom-tabs documentation for more!
This blog post will explain the differences between the JavaScript Bottom Tabs navigator and provide a step-by-step guide for integrating React Navigation with the Native Bottom Tabs Navigator.
The documentation is now live at reactnavigation.org, and v6 lives here.
React Navigation 7 aims to improve the developer experience with a new static API as well as bring many new features and improvements.
We're excited to announce the release candidate of React Navigation 7.0.
This release includes a new static API that simplifies the configuration of navigators and improves TypeScript and deep linking support. As well as various other improvements and new features.
Two of the major pain points of using React Navigation have been TypeScript and deep linking configuration. Due to the dynamic nature of the navigators, it is necessary to manually maintain the TypeScript and deep linking configuration to match the navigation structure. This can be error-prone and time-consuming.
To solve this, we’re adding a new static API to React Navigation 7. It’s not the same API as React Navigation 4, but it’s similar. Many apps don’t need the features that the dynamic API provides, and they can use the simpler static API instead to simplify their codebase.
The documentation is now live at reactnavigation.org, and v5 lives here.
React Navigation 6 keeps mostly the same core API as React Navigation 5, and you can think of it as further polishing what was in React Navigation 5. Let's talk about the highlights of this release in this blog post.
We're excited to announce that we finally have a prerelease version of React Navigation 6. We released React Navigation 5 more than half a year ago, and it brought a lot of new possibilities with the new dynamic API, and was met with overwhelmingly positive reaction. Since then, we've been working on incremental improvements and refinements to the library and thinking about how to make it even better. This brings us to the next major version of React Navigation.