feat(expo): block app versions older than the minimum set in the Clerk Dashboard by seanperez29 · Pull Request #10343 · clerk/javascript

seanperez29 · 2026-10-21T19:17:40Z

Description

Important

Do not merge yet. This waits for the clerk-ios release with clerk/clerk-ios#742 and the clerk-android release with clerk/clerk-android#1160. Before merging, set clerk_ios_version in ClerkExpo.podspec and clerkAndroidApiVersion/clerkAndroidUiVersion in android/build.gradle to those releases, in place of the automatic Expo iOS SDK bump PR, which can then be closed.

Native app force update lets an instance set a minimum version for each of its apps in the Clerk Dashboard. FAPI rejects requests from an older build with a 403 unsupported_app_version until the user updates. This PR is the Expo side. The backend is in clerk/clerk_go#23226, the edge check in clerk/cloudflare-workers#3048, the Dashboard in clerk/dashboard#10502, iOS in clerk/clerk-ios#742 and Android in clerk/clerk-android#1160.

Requests

Requests send the app's identity, read with expo-application, a new optional peer:
- iOS: X-Bundle-Id and X-App-Version (CFBundleShortVersionString).
- Android: X-Package-Name and X-App-Version (versionCode).
Without expo-application, in Expo Go, and on the web, requests carry no identity, so FAPI never blocks them.
In development, a one-time warning appears when the instance sets minimum versions but expo-application is missing.

Status

New useAppVersionSupport() returns isSupported, currentVersion, minimumVersion and updateUrl. It reads the responses @clerk/expo already sees in its request hooks, so clerk-js doesn't change. It follows the same rules as the native SDKs:
- A 403 unsupported_app_version blocks the app, falling back to the environment's minimum and update URL for anything its meta leaves out.
- The X-Clerk-App-Version-Status: supported header lifts a block.
- The environment decides only until FAPI answers. After that it only updates the minimum and update URL the screen shows, because it can be served from the edge cache.
- Answers for a replaced Clerk instance are ignored.
A rejected version can't sign anyone out: isUnauthenticatedError only matches 401, 422, and 403 with user_banned or user_deactivated.

Lifting a block

While the app is unsupported, it reloads the environment and client each time it returns to the foreground, as the native SDKs do. The client request reaches FAPI, whose supported header lifts the block. Token responses minted at the edge carry no X-Clerk-App-Version-Status, so they can't.
A blocked app that starts cold can't load clerk-js, because its client request is rejected, so clerk-js ends in its error state. When the block lifts, <ClerkProvider> discards that instance and creates a new one, which loads normally and restores the signed-in session from the token cache. An app whose clerk-js had loaded keeps its instance.

Screen

<ClerkProvider> shows an update screen in a modal over the app while it's unsupported. It shows even when clerk-js fails to load, which happens because a blocked app's client request is rejected. Android's Back button can't dismiss it.
The layout follows each platform's native screen. iOS shows "Your version / Required" and "Go to App Store". Android shows only "Your version" with the version name, and "Go to Google Play" ("Update app" for other stores). Both have a "Can't update? Get help" link when the instance has a support email.
It uses the Dashboard logo and the native SDKs' default colors, in light and dark mode.
updateRequiredViewEnabled={false} turns it off, for apps that build their own screen from the hook. The screen's component is internal, so @clerk/expo exports only the hook and the prop.

Native SDK screens (@clerk/expo-native-components)

The native SDKs' own update screens stay on by default. @clerk/expo turns them off through a new optional bridge method, setUpdateRequiredViewEnabled, which it calls just before configureNative (iOS updateRequiredViewEnabled: false, Android withUpdateRequiredViewDisabled()):
- It turns them off when it shows its own screen, which needs expo-application to identify the app, or when the app sets updateRequiredViewEnabled={false}. Otherwise the native screen would show over this one, and the prop wouldn't turn it off.
- Without expo-application, @clerk/expo can't identify the app and shows nothing, while native requests still identify it and get the 403. The native screen stays on there.
- An older @clerk/expo, which has no update screen, never calls the method, so the native screen stays on. @clerk/expo skips the call on native components without the method, and configureNative keeps its signature.
- Native Clerk reads the setting when it's configured, and only configureNative configures it, so it's in place from launch. A later change to the prop applies the next time native Clerk is configured: the next launch, or a new publishable key or proxy URL.
Both options only exist in the native SDK releases with force update, so until they ship:
- iOS is pinned to feat: show an update screen when the app is below its minimum version clerk-ios#742's commit (38ed765b) instead of a release.
- Android stays on clerk-android 1.2.1, which doesn't have withUpdateRequiredViewDisabled(), so the Android native build fails here (Unresolved reference 'withUpdateRequiredViewDisabled').
- Checked locally before the optional method was added: CI's Expo fixture (SDK 58) built a release APK against feat: block app versions older than the minimum set in the Clerk Dashboard clerk-android#1160 (8df2c843) published to Maven Local. The iOS native builds here run against feat: show an update screen when the app is below its minimum version clerk-ios#742's commit.

Known gaps

The screen is English only, because @clerk/expo has no localization. The native screens have 15 languages.
Without a Dashboard logo, the screen shows none, because React Native can't read the app icon without native code.
If a global Clerk instance from getClerkInstance() is held outside React, it is still the discarded instance after a restart (see Lifting a block), so it stays in its error state until the app reads getClerkInstance() again.

Screen recordings

Recorded on the iOS simulator (iPhone 17 Pro, Release build) against a local backend running clerk/clerk_go#23226, clerk/cloudflare-workers#3048 and clerk/dashboard#10502. The app is a minimal Expo SDK 55 app (version 1.0.0) that signs in a +clerk_test user through signIn.emailCode. "Before" is @clerk/expo@4.14.0 from npm; "after" is this branch, packed. In both, the app's minimum is raised to 2.0 in the Dashboard.

Before (`@clerk/expo@4.14.0`)	After (this PR)
expo-ios-before.mov	expo-ios-after.mov

Before: the app sends no identity, so nothing blocks it. It stays signed in after a trip to the background and a cold relaunch.
After:
- The update screen covers the app within seconds, on the next session token refresh, which the edge sends to origin because the app is below its minimum.
- Lowering the minimum to 1.0 lifts the block on the next foreground, and the user is still signed in.
- Raising it again and relaunching the app cold shows the screen at launch, even though clerk-js can't load.

Blocked cold start, then the block lifts (this PR)

expo-ios-cold-restart.mov

The app launches cold with the minimum at 2.0, so clerk-js can't load and the update screen shows.
The minimum is lowered to 1.0 in the Dashboard. When the app returns to the foreground, in the same process, Clerk restarts and the user is signed in.

The Android emulator recording is still to come.

Simulator verification

Adds a launch recording at the current head (43eb2fd7f5), with the update screen's new wording ("Please update to continue", without the account-security reason). Before, the app opens to its signed-out screen; after, the update screen covers it as soon as the launch finishes, with the version comparison and Go to App Store.

Before c4fcf43deb (the PR's base; its @clerk/expo source is identical to the published 4.14.0, which the build uses), after 43eb2fd7f5 (this PR, through pkglab). Both are Release builds of the Expo playground (com.clerk.testing, version 1.0.0) on an iPhone 17 Pro simulator, iOS 26.5, in dark mode. Mocked backend: clerk/clerk_go#23226 isn't deployed, so both builds pass proxyUrl to <ClerkProvider> pointing at a local mock in front of the real dev instance. It serves the instance's real environment with an iOS minimum of 2.0 for com.clerk.testing, answers requests that identify as that bundle ID below 2.0 with the backend's 403 unsupported_app_version, and forwards everything else to the real instance. The base sends no identity headers, so all of its requests were forwarded. Both builds also patch one line of expo-modules-jsi 56.0.10 that Xcode 27's Swift compiler rejects; it doesn't touch Clerk. The instance has no logo or support email.

Before

before.mp4

After

after.mp4

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The Expo package adds native iOS and Android app identity detection and minimum-version policy evaluation. Native requests send app identity and update support state from server responses and environment data. The provider can display an update-required modal, and apps can use the public status hook or render the exported view. The changes also add optional expo-application support, Expo Go detection, and tests for support evaluation, request handling, provider behavior, and UI.

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Android builds remain blocked until the native dependency is updated. Changing the update-screen setting can also leave the native screen out of sync. Resolve these issues before merging; the blocked-screen link behavior still depends on an unverified server payload contract.

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Token responses minted at the edge carry no app version status, so a blocked app only learns that it's supported again from a fresh environment, as the native SDKs do on foreground. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- The update screen, its modal and the restart hook read the status through useAppVersionSupport() instead of repeating its store subscription. - isRecord is shared between the version support files. - The version comparison returns whether the app meets its minimum, the one thing callers check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…inimum The environment can be served from the edge cache, so a stale copy used to override what FAPI had just answered: after a minimum or the allowlist changed, the update screen could reappear on each environment load, or disappear while FAPI kept rejecting requests. FAPI enforces the minimum, so its latest answer now decides once there is one, and the environment decides only before that. A supported answer still shows the environment's minimum and update URL when the environment agrees. The request hooks no longer track which answers arrived while the environment loaded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

"To keep your account secure" implied older versions are insecure, when a customer may retire a version for any reason. The subtitle now reads "This version of <app> is no longer supported. Please update to continue.", matching the native SDKs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Current version: 4.14.0
Recommended bump: MINOR → 4.15.0

Subpath `.`

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (1)

Modified: `ClerkProviderProps`

// ... 3 unchanged lines elided ...
      __experimental_passkeys?: BuildClerkOptions['__experimental_passkeys'];
      __experimental_resourceCache?: BuildClerkOptions['__experimental_resourceCache'];
      __experimental_disableNativeClientSync?: boolean;
+     updateRequiredViewEnabled?: boolean;
  };

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🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (95%): The only change is adding a new optional property updateRequiredViewEnabled? to ClerkProviderProps, which is an input type (passed by consumers as props). Adding an optional property to an input type does not break existing well-typed consumer code — callers that don't pass it remain valid.

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Added: `AppVersionSupportStatus`

+ export type AppVersionSupportStatus = {
+     isSupported: boolean;
+     currentVersion: string | null;
+     minimumVersion: string | null;
+     updateUrl: string | null;
+ };

Added type alias AppVersionSupportStatus

Added: `useAppVersionSupport`

+ export declare function useAppVersionSupport(): AppVersionSupportStatus;

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// ... 3 unchanged lines elided ...
      __experimental_passkeys?: BuildClerkOptions['__experimental_passkeys'];
      __experimental_resourceCache?: BuildClerkOptions['__experimental_resourceCache'];
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<ClerkProvider> creates its Clerk instance while it renders, and that resets the app version store. Notifying subscribers synchronously updated other components mid-render once a minimum had been published, so React warned on every restart after a block lifted. The store still updates immediately, so components that render afterwards read the new status; subscribers are told on a microtask. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The bridge turned the native SDKs' update screens off unconditionally. An app on an older @clerk/expo, which has no update screen, or without expo-application, which @clerk/expo needs to identify the app, then showed none while native requests were rejected. The native screen now stays on by default. @clerk/expo turns it off through a new optional setUpdateRequiredViewEnabled bridge method, called before configureNative, when it shows its own screen or the app sets updateRequiredViewEnabled={false}. configureNative keeps its signature, and @clerk/expo skips the call on native components without the method. The setting applies when native Clerk is configured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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…figures Passing the computed setting as a useMemo dependency recreated the native client sync object whenever the prop changed, dropping its state for nothing: the native SDKs only read the option when they're configured. Read it through a ref instead, like the token cache, when configureNative runs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Subpath `.`

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