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@storybook/addon-essentials

8.6.18storybookjs/storybook ↗

Curated addons to bring out the best of Storybook

Last release 5 months ago
06 Mar 2026
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 8 days to 7 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 57 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
7 years old
1803 releases · first in 2019

Release timeline

1803 releases since 2019

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8.5.0-beta.1013 Jan 2025pre-release
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8.4.75 Dec 2024
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- Telemetry: Improve anonymous id calculation - #29736, thanks @tmeasday!
- Vue: Properly resolve Vite plugin - #29795, thanks @tobiasdiez!
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8.4.629 Nov 2024
Release notes
- Addon Test: Use pathe for better windows support - #29676, thanks @yannbf!
- Angular: Default to standalone components in Angular v19 - #29677, thanks @ingowagner!
- Frameworks: Add Vite 6 support - #29710, thanks @yannbf!
- Portable stories: Support multiple annotation notations from preview - #29733, thanks @yannbf!
- React: Upgrade react-docgen-typescript to support Vite 6 - #29724, thanks @yannbf!
- Svelte: Support @sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte v5 - #29731, thanks @JReinhold!
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8.4.520 Nov 2024
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- Angular: Support v19 - #29659, thanks @leosvelperez!
- CLI: Disable corepack auto pin behavior - #29627, thanks @yannbf!
- CLI: Fix qwik init - #29632, thanks @shilman!
- Nextjs-Vite: Add Next.js 15 support - #29640, thanks @yannbf!
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8.4.414 Nov 2024
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- Addon Test: Only optimize react deps if applicable in vitest-plugin - #29617, thanks @yannbf!
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8.4.313 Nov 2024
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- Addon Test: Optimize internal dependencies - #29595, thanks @yannbf!
- Next.js: Add support for Next 15 - #29587, thanks @yannbf!
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8.4.25 Nov 2024
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- Addon Test: Fix post-install logic for Next.js Vite framework support - #29524, thanks @valentinpalkovic!
- Addon Test: Only render the TestingModule component in development mode - #29501, thanks @yannbf!
- CLI: Fix Solid init by installing @storybook/test - #29514, thanks @shilman!
- Core: Shim CJS-only globals in ESM output - #29157, thanks @valentinpalkovic!
- Next.js: Fix bundled react and react-dom in monorepos - #29444, thanks @sentience!
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8.4.11 Nov 2024
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- Core: Relax peer dep constraint of shim packages - #29503, thanks @kasperpeulen!
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8.4.031 Oct 2024
Release notes
Storybook 8.4 comes with a ton of exciting new features designed to give you the best experience developing, testing, and debugging tests in the browser!
- ▶️ Unified UI for component testing
- 5️⃣ Svelte 5 and Svelte CSF support
- ⚛️ React Native Storybook 8 release
- 🏷️ Tags-based filtering to organize your Storybook
- 🫧 Dependency cleanup to reduce install footprint
- 💯 Hundreds more improvements
<details> <summary>List of all updates</summary>
- Addon Test: Adjust file exports to be ESM/CJS compatible - #29471, thanks @valentinpalkovic!
- Addon Test: Error when addon interactions exists - #29434, thanks @valentinpalkovic!
- Addon Test: Escape XML when converting ANSI to HTML in test errors - #29446, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Addon Test: Fix hiding stacktrace for assertion errors in test panel - #29458, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Addon Test: Improve Error Handling - #29476, thanks @valentinpalkovic!
- Addon Test: Improve postinstall script - #29479, thanks @yannbf!
- Addon Test: Improve unsupported vitest message - #29486, thanks @valentinpalkovic!
- Addon Test: Only register testing module in Vite projects - #29472, thanks @yannbf!
- Addon Test: Throttle Vitest progress updates more heavily - #29482, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Addon-docs, blocks: Prebundle dependencies - #29301, thanks @JReinhold!
- Addon-Test: Support for @vitest/browser v2.1.2 - #29407, thanks @strozw!
- Blocks: Prebundle es-toolkit - #29259, thanks @JReinhold!
- Builder-vite: Replace .at() call with [] in codegen - #29048, thanks @Chudesnov!
- CLI: Don't add @storybook/addon-links by default - #29177, thanks @tobiasdiez!
- CLI: Ensure .gitignore updated via CLI ends with a newline - #29124, thanks @3w36zj6!
- CLI: Fix yarn detection - #29448, thanks @ndelangen!
- CLI: Migrate from chalk to picocolors - #28262, thanks @43081j!
- CLI: Refactor NPMProxy error parsing logic - #29459, thanks @yannbf!
- ConfigFile: Fix export { X } parsing - #29344, thanks @vctqs1!
- Core: Add unified UI Testing Module - #29241, thanks @yannbf!
- Core: Close story status menu when selecting an item - #29455, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Core: Fix building Storybook deleting project root files - #29371, thanks @JReinhold!
- Core: Fix race condition during empty folder init - #29490, thanks @valentinpalkovic!
- Core: Make prettier an optional peer dependency - #29223, thanks @JReinhold!
- Core: Migrate from express to polka - #29230, thanks @43081j!
- Core: Migrate from qs to picoquery - #28315, thanks @43081j!
- Core: Open 'Component tests' addon panel when clicking a story status - #29456, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Core: Remove handlebars usage - #29208, thanks @ndelangen!
- Core: Remove dependence on file-system-cache - #29256, thanks @ndelangen!
- Core: Replace fs-extra with the native APIs - #29126, thanks @ziebam!
- Core: Replace lodash with es-toolkit - #28981, thanks @ndelangen!
- Core: Show checkmark icon in story status dropdown and update status label for component tests - #29451, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Core: Show tooltip on filter toggles to clarify their purpose - #29447, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Core: Track test provider state in sessionStorage - #29450, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Core: Upgrade esbuild, broadening version range - #29254, thanks @ndelangen!
- Dependencies: Upgrade VTA to v3.1.0 - #29449, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Dependencies: Upgrade VTA to v3.2.0 to resolve peerDep conflict - #29461, thanks @ghengeveld!
- Interactions: Escape xml of interactions errors - #29414, thanks @kasperpeulen!
- Maintenance: Fix broken and outdated documentation links - #29412, thanks @jonniebigodes!
- Manager: Add tags property to ComponentEntry objects - #29343, thanks @Sidnioulz!
- React: Prebundle all of renderers/react's dependencies - #29298, thanks @ndelangen!
- Svelte: Improve argTypes inference with svelte2tsx - support runes - #29423, thanks @JReinhold!
- Test: Remove unused util dependency - #29310, thanks @JReinhold!
- UI: Brand image css class conflict causes image to resize on hot reloads - #29129, thanks @ShreySinha02!
- UI: Fix RefIndicator to use CheckIcon instead of string - #29209, thanks @JSMike!
- UI: Simple tag filtering - #29333, thanks @shilman!
- UI: Use production-mode react in manager - #29197, thanks @ndelangen!
- Viewport-addon: Add InitialViewportKeys type to viewport addon - #29182, thanks @hyeongrok7874!
- Vite: Add jsdoc-type-pratt-parser to optimizeDeps - #29179, thanks @tobiasdiez!
- Vite: Cleanup and prebundle dependencies - #29302, thanks @JReinhold!
- Webpack: Fix export 'act' (imported as 'React4') was not found in 'react' errors in webpack - #29235, thanks @kasperpeulen!
</details>
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8.4.0-beta.530 Oct 2024pre-release
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8.3.74 Nov 2024
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8.3.618 Oct 2024
Release notes
- CLI: Install Svelte CSF v5 in Svelte5 projects - #29323, thanks @shilman!
- Svelte: Add v5 stories to CLI templates - #29382, thanks @JReinhold!
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8.3.54 Oct 2024
Release notes
- CLI: Update the React Native init to include v8 dependencies - #29273, thanks @dannyhw!
- Vitest plugin: Fix renamed export stories - #29250, thanks @shilman!
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