# react-error-boundary changelog

> A reusable React error boundary with a reset API.

- Vendor: Brian Vaughn
- Category: Frameworks & Libraries
- Official site: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary)
- Harvested from: GitHub (bvaughn/react-error-boundary)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

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## Releases

### 6.1.3

- Date: 2026-08-15
- Version: 6.1.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.1.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.1.3

- **added** — Add @types/react as an optional peer dependency

[245](https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/pull/245)- Add `@types/react` as an _optional_ peer dependency

### 6.1.2

- Date: 2026-05-25
- Version: 6.1.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.1.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.1.2

README and doc comment updates

### 6.1.1

- Date: 2026-02-13
- Version: 6.1.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.1.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.1.1

- **fixed** — Project logo now displays correctly in the README for the Firefox browser

- Fixed a problem with project logo not displaying correctly in the README for the Firefox browser.

### 6.1.0

- Date: 2026-01-17
- Version: 6.1.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.1.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.1.0

- **fixed** — Fix error type from Error to unknown
- **added** — Export getErrorMessage helper method

- #235: Fix error type (`Error` -> `unknown`)
- Export `getErrorMessage` helper method

### 6.0.3

- Date: 2026-01-08
- Version: 6.0.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.0.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.0.3

- **removed** — Removed react-dom from peer dependencies list

- Removed `react-dom` from peer dependencies list; it was accidentally added during a previous internal refactor

### 6.0.2

- Date: 2026-01-05
- Version: 6.0.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.0.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.0.2

Updated README and generated TS docs

### 6.0.1

- Date: 2026-01-05
- Version: 6.0.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.0.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.0.1

Updated README and generated docs

### 6.0.0

- Date: 2025-05-03
- Version: 6.0.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/6.0.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/6.0.0

Module is ESM-only in order to better work with modern tooling.

### 5.0.0

- Date: 2024-12-21
- Version: 5.0.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/5.0.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/5.0.0

- **changed** — Update withErrorBoundary types to be compatible with the latest forwardRef types

###### Update `withErrorBoundary` types to be compatible with the latest `forwardRef` types

For more background see PR #211

### 4.1.2

- Date: 2024-10-23
- Version: 4.1.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-error-boundary/releases/tag/4.1.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/react-error-boundary/releases/4.1.2

- Remove `engines` field from Package JSON entirely