Kendo-angular: Angular 6.x support time frame?

[djarekg]

I'm submitting a...

Question

• Suggestion for improvement

Current behavior

only angular 5.x supported

Expected behavior

support angular 6.x

[ggkrustev]

At the time of writing this, Angular 6 is still in RC.1 phase. We will introduce a support for it once the Angular team releases Angular 6 officially.

https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#600-rc1-2018-03-30

Stay tuned for updates. Will close the thread as it doesn't report a bug.

[lucho78]

Sdrasti Georgi,
I guess the new version will be release very soon. So that means once the version 6.0.0 will be release we can assume that the Kendo components will support this version. Am I right?
Thanks
Luc

[tsvetomir]

We are not aware of any issues with the RC versions at the time. There are some gotchas to watch out for. Most importantly, you need to include rxjs-compat to maintain compatibility with RxJS 5.5+ as this is what Kendo UI uses.

[lucho78]

I did a test today with rxjs-compat and it works well.
Only warnings like:
npm WARN @progress/[email protected] requires a peer of @angular/animations@^4.0.0 || ^5.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

Thanks for this tip
Luc

[tsvetomir]

Official update instructions will be published soon. The short version is:

Update to the latest Kendo UI package versions:

npm install -g npm-check-updates
ncu -u -f /^@progress/

Install rxjs-compat:

npm install --save rxjs-compat@6

[tsvetomir]

All components have been updated to address Angular 6 compatibility. Update instructions can be found in the documentation.

Closing this issue as resolved. Please, open new issues for any specific problems that pop up after the upgrade.