Intent to remove support for React v16 and v17

As part of Carbon's next major release, v12, the team intends to remove formal support for React versions 16 and 17 in our react packages like @carbon/react and @carbon/ibm-products.

	Carbon v11	Carbon v12
React 16	⚠️ Deprecated	🚫 Unsupported
React 17	⚠️ Deprecated	🚫 Unsupported
React 18	✅ Supported	⚠️ Deprecated
React 19	✅ Supported	✅ Supported

If this change will impact your project or team, please leave a comment to help us understand why you're unable to update to React v18 or later. Thank you!

Note

More information is available at carbondesignsystem.com/deprecations