This feature release officially marks the connect API as deprecated.
That's it. That's the release. :)
Changelog
connect deprecation
Way back in 2022, I officially marked the original Redux core createStore method as deprecated in Redux 4.2.0. As I clearly stated in that release, the goal of marking createStore as deprecated was to encourage users to migrate to modern Redux Toolkit, especially for those users who don't read our docs (such as beginners following outdated tutorials or in bootcamps, etc). The change was visual-only - adding @deprecated just marks the import with a strikethrough in an IDE, and the docblock references the "use modern Redux Toolkit" docs page. No runtime errors, no behavior changes, just an indication that the function is considered obsolete and you shouldn't use it directly any more. I also exported a legacy_createStore alias - same function, no deprecation attribute.
It's 4 years later, and I'm finally doing the same thing for connect :)
Again, nothing about connect's behavior is changing, and we do not intend to remove the connect API. But it's 2026, and hooks are the correct way to use React and React-Redux today.
We do strongly encourage users to migrate from connect to the useSelector / useDispatch hooks in general. This should result in codebases that are easier to understand and ought to improve performance slightly due to the way updates are handled.
As with before, React-Redux now exports a legacy_connect alias that does not have the deprecation attribute applied.
Trusted Publishing Fixed
We had set up trusted publishing for React-Redux a couple years ago and did some releases with that enabled, but at some point I did a follow-up release that still used the previous manual workflow, and that lost the trusted publishing provenance flag. We had recent issues requesting a new release with trusted publishing enabled again, so we've fixed that with this release.
What's Changed
- Mark
connectas deprecated by @markerikson in #2269
Full Changelog: v9.2.0...v9.3.0