React Native Paper 6.0.0-alpha.1: try it in your app

[Doberjohn]

6.0.0-alpha.1 is on npm under the alpha tag:

npm install react-native-paper@alpha

It's the first 6.x prerelease since alpha.0 in June: 41 commits, 11 of them breaking. Animations move to Reanimated, accessibility props to aria-* and role, and Modal and Dialog render through their own portal. 6.x needs React 19 and the New Architecture. APIs can still change before 6.0.0-beta.0.

Get started. Set up from the 6.x Getting Started guide. We set up fresh Expo SDK 58 and React Native 0.88 apps from it on iOS and Android.

Coming from 5.x? Start with the migration guide. It doesn't cover every change yet; the release notes mark the gaps.

Known issue. The optional Babel plugin (react-native-paper/babel) doesn't shrink the bundle yet: theme imports such as LightTheme still pull in the whole library, so you can leave it out for now.

Tell us what breaks. Reply here with how the upgrade went, or open an issue with 6.0.0-alpha.1 in the title, your platform, and your React Native and Expo versions. Missing migration notes count too. The merge order and what comes next are in #5150.