Expo

Recently shipped passkey sign-in and Maestro insights dashboards.

Sign in with passkeys – Added passkey support for Expo accounts, enabling more secure sign-in without passwords or OTP, including 2FA bypass. SSO users excluded.

EAS Observe moves to GA on August 20 – All plans get 90-day data retention. Free plan includes 100,000 events/month; Starter+ plans include 500,000/month. Overages billed at $5/1M events.

EAS CLI v21 series added several new commands and features – eas project:delete (previously web-only), eas browse (with --no-browser flag) and eas open alias, eas simulator:availability, eas simulator:start now prompts for platform if omitted and accepts --name, eas simulator as shorthand for eas simulator:start, and experimental eas simulator:events. eas project:icon:set uploads a project icon from the command line. eas init gained --account and --json flags for non-interactive project creation. eas workflow:create added a --template flag and shorter default filenames. eas integrate:posthog:dashboard opens a signed-in link. Drill-down from event lists added in observe:session. The eas onboarding command was removed (breaking change). eas update fixed to work inside EAS Build. Session names show in eas simulator:get and eas simulator:list.

Expo Orbit v2.8 – Added support for physical iPhones on Windows and Linux, and Wi-Fi pairing for Android devices.

Maestro testing insights – A new dashboard in the Insights tab surfaces trends, flaky flows, and failure patterns for Maestro E2E tests.

Expo Agent winding down – The web-based agent will be unavailable after July 31. Projects can be exported; lessons applied to other tools.

SDK 57 shipped on June 30, bringing React Native 0.86 with no breaking changes from SDK 56 — React stays at 19.2.