Expo SDK 48

Released February 24, 2023

Features

Hermes is now the default JavaScript engine

React Native 0.71.3 and React 18.2.0

Expo Image v1.0

Expo Router v1.0

M1 workers are the default for iOS builds in SDK 48 projects

Android compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion set to API level 33 across all Expo modules

Support for right-to-left languages in Expo Go

Support for the New Architecture/Fabric in all Expo packages except expo-dev-client

expo-random merged into expo-crypto

Expo Modules API improvements