React-native: 'react-native upgrade' command still remains the old version.

[JYeop]

🐛 Bug Report

The blog(http://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/) says that the 0.59.0 released, and announced the the new upgrade way using 'react-native upgrade'.
But when I ran the command, the older version of the command result shown.
Is it a just bug or the new way did not applied the new way to the react-native-cli server?

JYs-MBP:0.58.6 jyk$ react-native upgradeYou should consider using the new upgrade tool based on Git. It makes upgrades easier by resolving most conflicts automatically.
To use it:- Go back to the old version of React Native- Run "npm install -g react-native-git-upgrade"
Run "react-native-git-upgrade"See https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/upgrading.htmlUpgrading project to react-native v0.58.6
Check out the release notes and breaking changes: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.58.0
Upgrading project to react-native v0.58.6
Check out the release notes and breaking changes: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.58.0

Environment

React Native Environment Info:
System:
OS: macOS 10.14.3
CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
Memory: 8.11 GB / 32.00 GB
Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash
Binaries:
Node: 11.10.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
Yarn: 1.13.0 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
npm: 6.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: iOS 12.1, macOS 10.14, tvOS 12.1, watchOS 5.1
Android SDK:
API Levels: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Build Tools: 27.0.3, 28.0.2, 28.0.3
System Images: android-26 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-26 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64, android-26 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-27 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-27 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-28 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom
IDEs:
Android Studio: 3.2 AI-181.5540.7.32.5056338
Xcode: 10.1/10B61 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
npmPackages:
react: 16.6.3 => 16.6.3
react-native: 0.58.6 => 0.58.6
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native-git-upgrade: 0.2.7

[react-native-bot]

Can you run react-native info and edit your issue to include these results under the Environment section?

If you believe this information is irrelevant to the reported issue, you may write [skip envinfo] alongside an explanation in your Environment: section.

[react-native-bot]

It looks like you are using an older version of React Native. Please update to the latest release, v0.59 and verify if the issue still exists.

The "Resolution: Old Version" label will be removed automatically once you edit your original post with the results of running react-native info on a project using the latest release.

[hramos]

Copying here additional details from #23867 by @pistou:

🐛 Bug Report

I'm trying to upgrade my projet to 0.59 as it released, but it tries to upgrade to 0.58.6, which is my current react-native version.

$~ > react-native info

  React Native Environment Info:
    System:
      OS: Windows 10
      CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
      Memory: 8.01 GB / 15.90 GB
    Binaries:
      Yarn: 1.13.0 - D:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
      npm: 6.1.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD

$~ > react-native --version
react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: 0.58.6

$~ > react-native upgrade
You should consider using the new upgrade tool based on Git. It makes upgrades easier by resolving most conflicts automatically.
To use it:
- Go back to the old version of React Native
- Run "npm install -g react-native-git-upgrade"
- Run "react-native-git-upgrade"
See https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/upgrading.html
Upgrading project to react-native v0.58.6
Check out the release notes and breaking changes: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.58.0
Successfully upgraded this project to react-native v0.58.6

$~ > react-native --version
react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: 0.58.6

I tried to uninstall and reinstall react-native-cli just in case but didn't change much.

[thymikee]

New upgrade is _a part_ of RN 0.59. If you upgrade from 0.58 it's not there yet.

[kelset]

👋 there - so, it's a bit of a misunderstanding happening here 😅

Basically, the new upgrade command is usable from 0.59, so when you upgrade to it it's still not available. We are fixing the blogpost to be more clear on it :)

To upgrade to 0.59 we recommend using the rn-diff-purge repo.

[JYeop]

Thanks! 😄

[turnrye]

@JYeop @pistou thank you for submitting these issues. We're getting the blog post updated to be clearer.

[appatappa]

I should point out that the official upgrade documentation page (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/upgrading.html#content) still shows relies pretty heavily on react-native upgrade, though it does seem to use rn-diff-purge as a reference.

[kelset]

that's because from 0.59 the CLI command upgrade actually uses rn-diff-purge under the surface AFAIK

[appatappa]

@kelset got it! TBH it's about time they started paying attention to the upgrade process.

[shubhnik]

Documentation of previous versions also shows react-native upgrade method only. Is there any other place where i can check methods to upgrade RN for versions <0.59?

[hramos]

@shubhnik you can find previous versions of the upgrade guide by browsing through the source file's history at https://github.com/facebook/react-native-website/commits/master/docs/upgrading.md

Would you mind opening an issue over at https://github.com/facebook/react-native-website to request these past instructions get added to the upgrading guide? That guide is unversioned, so it will show the same content regardless of which version you select at the top. We'll need to modify the guide to account for past versions. If you can send a PR, that would be even better.

[PomegranateApps]

So how does one actually upgrade from 0.58.6?

[thymikee]

You can use the CLI as a standalone, e.g.: npx @react-native-community/cli upgrade will do