---
title: "Clerk Expo native components move to their own package: 2026-10-20 | Harbyn"
description: "Clerk Expo native components move to their own package, announced Oct 20, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/clerk/2026-10-20-expo-native-components-move-to-their-own-package"
last-updated: 2026-10-25
---

# Clerk Expo native components move to their own package

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/clerk/2026-10-20-expo-native-components-move-to-their-own-package>.

Breaking change - Clerk. high severity. In effect.

In @clerk/expo 4.11.0, native AuthView, UserButton and UserProfileView require @clerk/expo-native-components. Install the package, update imports to @clerk/expo/native-components, rebuild and ship the native binary before an OTA update. Without the package, native components fail at runtime. The old @clerk/expo/native path is deprecated until the next major release.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [Clerk](https://harbyn.com/vendors/clerk.md) |
| Kind | Breaking change |
| Severity | high |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 20, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 25, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Vendor page | <https://clerk.com/changelog/2026-10-20-expo-native-components-package> |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Clerk, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://clerk.com/changelog/atom.xml> (changelog, fetched 2026-10-21 14:31 UTC, sha256 `0b92dc6c4f3a814373403d9c421e85ca4c14aa85663529f0318f8b84cdba1822`)

## Related changes

### More from Clerk

- [SAML connections accept multiple signing certificates and idp\_certificate is deprecated](https://harbyn.com/changes/clerk/2026-10-06-multiple-signing-certificates-for-saml-connections.md) (Deprecation, announced Oct 6, 2026)

### Changes at other vendors

- [Amazon Selling Partner API: October listing attribute usage and enumeration value updates](https://harbyn.com/changes/amazon-sp-api/2026-10-14-sp-api-updates-new-listings-items-api-ivp-values-in-eu5-jp-and-ca-stores-oct-2.md) (effective Oct 26, 2026)
- [Supabase: four CBC-mode TLS 1.2 cipher suites will be removed from project HTTP APIs](https://harbyn.com/changes/supabase/2026-10-12-an-outdated-subset-of-tls-1-2-ciphers-will-be-disabled-on-project-http-apis.md) (effective Nov 10, 2026)
- [Google Workspace APIs: OAuth clients must be marked as agentic to call Google Workspace MCP servers](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-workspace/2026-10-12-oauth-clients-must-be-marked-as-agentic-to-call-google-workspace-mcp-servers.md) (effective Nov 11, 2026)
- [Bitbucket Cloud API: Git Credential Manager upgrade required for OAuth 2.0 Git authentication](https://harbyn.com/changes/bitbucket/2026-10-13-git-credential-manager-upgrade-required-for-oauth-2-0-git-authentication.md) (effective Nov 30, 2026)

[All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)