React 19 is now stable, introducing new features like Actions, Hooks, and Suspense & use API for better async handling and improved performance in React apps.
Boa v0.20, a Rust-powered JavaScript engine, is gaining popularity with 90% ECMAScript compliance and new features like Temporal API, Atomics.pause, and js_class! Macro Updates.
Safari 18.2 brings developer-friendly features including cross-document view transitions, visionOS support for spatial video, JavaScript updates like Float16Array and new methods for Uint8Array, and improved WebAssembly support.
Some noteworthy tools and releases include Redux Toolkit 2.5 with React 19 compatibility, the web-based terminal emulator Termo, the JavaScript-Python fusion Civet for cleaner code, and the React app starter Rockpack for faster development and deployment.