v0.8.8 Pre-release thread

[adhami3310]

Please report any problems you encounter in this discussion thread or as separate issues on reflex-dev/reflex.

pip install 'reflex~=0.8.8a'

Schedule

2025-08-21 16:20 PDT: 0.8.8a1 pre-release published for testing
2025-08-25: Planned Public release of 0.8.8

Release Notes

Performance Optimizations

We replaced jinja2 with simpler fstring calls. This resulted in approximately 30% faster rendering step. We also optimized the import collections by ~15%.

• Replace jinja with fstrings by @adhami3310 in Replace jinja with fstrings #5720

Add more information to asyncio Tasks

If a task gets cancelled or such now Reflex will add a bit more information to what task that was.

• Provide descriptive names for asyncio.Task by @masenf in Provide descriptive names for asyncio.Task #5727

Chores

• 088dev by @adhami3310 in 088dev #5719
• improve literal handling in pyi generator by @adhami3310 in improve literal handling in pyi generator #5725

Full Changelog: v0.8.7...release/reflex-0.8.8