# Ionic 5 Release Date

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-5-release-date/179095>\
**Category:** Ionic Framework\
**Created:** [December 5, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-5-release-date/179095 "2019-12-05T14:54:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yue\_Hong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@Yue\_Hong](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Yue_Hong)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-5-release-date/179095/1 "2019-12-05T14:54:05Z")

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From GitHub, we can see that the current latest build of ionic is version 5.0.0-beta.1. May I know when it is estimated Ionic 5 will be officially released? Will it be drastic change over ionic 4? Also, when will capacitor be officially replace cordova as the default on Ionic?

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**Author:** ![Tommertom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Tommertom](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Tommertom)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-5-release-date/179095/2 "2019-12-05T14:58:57Z")

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Where do you see that?

On the framework GitHub I don’t see 5.0 as a branch

> **[ionic-team/ionic](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic)**
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> Build amazing Native and Progressive Web Apps with web technologies. One app running on everything 🎉 - ionic-team/ionic

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**Author:** ![Yue\_Hong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@Yue\_Hong](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Yue_Hong)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-5-release-date/179095/3 "2019-12-05T15:01:13Z")

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It’s on master branch ([https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/tree/v5.0.0-beta.1](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/tree/v5.0.0-beta.1)). You can also see it on the release page ([https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/releases](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/releases)).

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**Author:** ![Tommertom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Tommertom](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Tommertom)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-5-release-date/179095/4 "2019-12-05T15:08:47Z")

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ok thx

Haven’t seen any communication about 5 at all. Looking at the release note and the files/folders committed (15 days ago), it does not affect lots. But that is just a superficial check.

Not sure what you mean by cordova being replaced. Ionic Team basically only talks about Capacitor and has it included in AppFlow. So to them it already seems a first class citizen. Other cordova efforts (curated plugins) are more for the paying enterprise customers.

They don’t own Cordova as you may know, so can’t EOL it.