Facebook has released version 9 of its Software Development Kit (SDK) and other updates for the platform SDKs. The company has also announced that it will begin marking all SDK versions below version 9.0 as deprecated. Developers are encouraged to migrate to the current version. The Facebook SDKs provide helpful analysis functions and are used in app development.

The updates contain a new restricted mode (Limited Login) for the Facebook login. The limited login mode introduces protective measures that are intended to prevent a user’s login via an iOS app from being used to place advertising or to measure advertising success. In addition, Facebook is disconnecting from the automatic initialization of the Read Library. So far, all Facebook Platform SDKs were automatically initialized when starting.

Changes to the release cycle Facebook would like to update the platform SDK to Version 9.0 start, all previous SDK versions in the next two years (until 19. January 2023) to be marked as obsolete. If the goal is achieved, the previous versions of the SDK will be overridden. The company recommends users to switch to the current version as soon as possible.

Furthermore, Facebook announced that it would align all new main versions with annual releases in order to ensure that the SDK version numbers correspond to the latest version of the graph -API to adapt. Smaller updates are still planned – if necessary, a major version can be released outside of the cycle.

End of support for React Native Wrapper The company announces the end of support for its own React Native Wrapper around the SDKs for Android and iOS. The current version of the project moves to the Facebook archive. Facebook recommends that the community split (fork) this repository into a new project so that the community can continue to maintain it. Support for React Native continues and is not affected.

More information on the new features can be found in the post on the blog “Facebook for Developers”.

(mdo)