diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 23625a0..660d921 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         node-version: [22, 24]
+        react-version: [18, 19]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
@@ -21,6 +22,8 @@ jobs:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
           cache: yarn
       - run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts
+      - if: matrix.react-version != 19
+        run: yarn add --dev --ignore-scripts react@^${{ matrix.react-version }} react-dom@^${{ matrix.react-version }}
       - run: yarn lint
       - run: yarn prettier:check
       - run: yarn build-and-test
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7682a1c..e31049d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "peerDependencies": {
     "draft-js": ">=0.7.0",
-    "react": "^15.0.2 || ^16.0.0-rc || ^16.0.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0",
-    "react-dom": "^15.0.2 || ^16.0.0-rc || ^16.0.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0"
+    "react": "^15.0.2 || ^16.0.0-rc || ^16.0.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0",
+    "react-dom": "^15.0.2 || ^16.0.0-rc || ^16.0.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@babel/runtime": "^7.5.5",
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
     "jest": "^30.5.2",
     "jest-environment-jsdom": "^30.5.2",
     "prettier": "^3.9.10",
-    "react": "^18.0.0",
-    "react-dom": "^18.0.0",
+    "react": "^19.3.1",
+    "react-dom": "^19.3.1",
     "rimraf": "^6.1.3",
     "rollup": "^4.66.0"
   },
diff --git a/src/convertToHTML.js b/src/convertToHTML.js
index df43e6f..edb1db5 100644
--- a/src/convertToHTML.js
+++ b/src/convertToHTML.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // import Immutable from 'immutable'; // eslint-disable-line no-unused-vars
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 import React from 'react';
-import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
+import renderToStaticMarkup from './util/renderToStaticMarkup';
 import { convertToRaw } from 'draft-js';
 
 import encodeBlock from './encodeBlock';
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ const convertToHTML =
           Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(blockHTML, 'empty')
         ) {
           if (React.isValidElement(blockHTML.empty)) {
-            html = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(blockHTML.empty);
+            html = renderToStaticMarkup(blockHTML.empty);
           } else {
             html = blockHTML.empty;
           }
diff --git a/src/util/getBlockTags.js b/src/util/getBlockTags.js
index 45564b5..71c706b 100644
--- a/src/util/getBlockTags.js
+++ b/src/util/getBlockTags.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 import React from 'react';
-import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
+import renderToStaticMarkup from './renderToStaticMarkup';
 import splitReactElement from './splitReactElement';
 
 function hasChildren(element) {
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ export default function getBlockTags(blockHTML) {
 
   if (React.isValidElement(blockHTML)) {
     if (hasChildren(blockHTML)) {
-      return ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(blockHTML);
+      return renderToStaticMarkup(blockHTML);
     }
 
     return splitReactElement(blockHTML);
diff --git a/src/util/getElementHTML.js b/src/util/getElementHTML.js
index af124d0..de54122 100644
--- a/src/util/getElementHTML.js
+++ b/src/util/getElementHTML.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 import React from 'react';
-import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
+import renderToStaticMarkup from './renderToStaticMarkup';
 import splitReactElement from './splitReactElement';
 
 function hasChildren(element) {
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export default function getElementHTML(element, text = null) {
 
   if (React.isValidElement(element)) {
     if (hasChildren(element)) {
-      return ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(element);
+      return renderToStaticMarkup(element);
     }
 
     const tags = splitReactElement(element);
diff --git a/src/util/renderToStaticMarkup.js b/src/util/renderToStaticMarkup.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..707f527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/renderToStaticMarkup.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
+
+const IMAGE_PRELOADS =
+  /<link rel="preload" (?:as="image"|href="[^"]*" as="image")[^>]*\/>/g;
+
+const hoistsImagePreloads = parseInt(React.version, 10) >= 19;
+
+export default function renderToStaticMarkup(element) {
+  const html = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(element);
+  return hoistsImagePreloads ? html.replace(IMAGE_PRELOADS, '') : html;
+}
diff --git a/src/util/splitReactElement.js b/src/util/splitReactElement.js
index e1c5183..7389b4b 100644
--- a/src/util/splitReactElement.js
+++ b/src/util/splitReactElement.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import invariant from 'invariant';
 import React from 'react';
-import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server';
+import renderToStaticMarkup from './renderToStaticMarkup';
 
 // see http://w3c.github.io/html/syntax.html#writing-html-documents-elements
 const VOID_TAGS = [
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ const VOID_TAGS = [
 
 export default function splitReactElement(element) {
   if (VOID_TAGS.indexOf(element.type) !== -1) {
-    return ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(element);
+    return renderToStaticMarkup(element);
   }
 
-  const tags = ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(
+  const tags = renderToStaticMarkup(
     React.cloneElement(element, {}, '\r')
   ).split('\r');
 
diff --git a/test/spec/convertToHTML-test.js b/test/spec/convertToHTML-test.js
index 27d9495..430bf5c 100644
--- a/test/spec/convertToHTML-test.js
+++ b/test/spec/convertToHTML-test.js
@@ -1099,4 +1099,116 @@ describe('convertToHTML', () => {
       /missing HTML definition/
     );
   });
+
+  it('renders images in block HTML without preload links', () => {
+    const contentState = buildContentState([
+      {
+        type: 'atomic',
+        text: ' ',
+      },
+    ]);
+
+    const result = convertToHTML({
+      blockToHTML: {
+        atomic: (
+          <figure>
+            <img src="https://x.test/a.png" />
+          </figure>
+        ),
+      },
+    })(contentState);
+
+    expect(result).toBe('<figure><img src="https://x.test/a.png"/></figure>');
+  });
+
+  it('renders several image entities in one block without preload links', () => {
+    const contentState = buildContentState(
+      [
+        {
+          type: 'unstyled',
+          text: 'a b',
+          entityRanges: [
+            {
+              key: 0,
+              offset: 0,
+              length: 1,
+            },
+            {
+              key: 1,
+              offset: 2,
+              length: 1,
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+      {
+        0: {
+          type: 'IMAGE',
+          mutability: 'IMMUTABLE',
+          data: { src: 'https://x.test/1.png' },
+        },
+        1: {
+          type: 'IMAGE',
+          mutability: 'IMMUTABLE',
+          data: { src: 'https://x.test/2.png' },
+        },
+      }
+    );
+
+    const result = convertToHTML({
+      entityToHTML: (entity, originalText) => {
+        if (entity.type === 'IMAGE') {
+          return <img src={entity.data.src} />;
+        }
+        return originalText;
+      },
+    })(contentState);
+
+    expect(result).toBe(
+      '<p><img src="https://x.test/1.png"/> <img src="https://x.test/2.png"/></p>'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('renders an image inside an entity element without preload links', () => {
+    const contentState = buildContentState(
+      [
+        {
+          type: 'unstyled',
+          text: 'Hello',
+          entityRanges: [
+            {
+              key: 0,
+              offset: 0,
+              length: 5,
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+      {
+        0: {
+          type: 'LINK',
+          mutability: 'MUTABLE',
+          data: { url: 'https://x.test' },
+        },
+      }
+    );
+
+    const result = convertToHTML({
+      entityToHTML: (entity, originalText) => {
+        if (entity.type === 'LINK') {
+          return (
+            <a href={entity.data.url}>
+              <img src="https://x.test/icon.png" />
+              {originalText}
+            </a>
+          );
+        }
+        return originalText;
+      },
+    })(contentState);
+
+    expect(result).toBe(
+      '<p><a href="https://x.test"><img src="https://x.test/icon.png"/>Hello</a></p>'
+    );
+  });
 });
diff --git a/test/spec/renderToStaticMarkup-test.js b/test/spec/renderToStaticMarkup-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..454d895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/spec/renderToStaticMarkup-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import renderToStaticMarkup from '../../src/util/renderToStaticMarkup';
+
+const isReact19 = parseInt(React.version, 10) >= 19;
+
+describe('renderToStaticMarkup', () => {
+  it('renders an image without a preload link', () => {
+    expect(renderToStaticMarkup(<img src="https://x.test/a.png" />)).toBe(
+      '<img src="https://x.test/a.png"/>'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('renders a srcSet image without a preload link', () => {
+    expect(
+      renderToStaticMarkup(
+        <img src="https://x.test/a.png" srcSet="https://x.test/a2.png 2x" />
+      )
+    ).toBe(
+      '<img src="https://x.test/a.png" srcSet="https://x.test/a2.png 2x"/>'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('renders several images without preload links', () => {
+    expect(
+      renderToStaticMarkup(
+        <div>
+          <img src="https://x.test/1.png" />
+          <img src="https://x.test/2.png" />
+        </div>
+      )
+    ).toBe(
+      '<div><img src="https://x.test/1.png"/><img src="https://x.test/2.png"/></div>'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('keeps links that are not image preloads', () => {
+    expect(
+      renderToStaticMarkup(
+        <div>
+          <link rel="icon" href="https://x.test/i.ico" />
+        </div>
+      )
+    ).toContain('<link rel="icon" href="https://x.test/i.ico"/>');
+  });
+
+  it('keeps an explicit image preload link only before React 19', () => {
+    const result = renderToStaticMarkup(
+      <div>
+        <link rel="preload" as="image" href="https://x.test/p.png" />
+      </div>
+    );
+
+    expect(result).toBe(
+      isReact19
+        ? '<div></div>'
+        : '<div><link rel="preload" as="image" href="https://x.test/p.png"/></div>'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('leaves React 19 blocking javascript: URLs in place', () => {
+    const consoleError = jest
+      .spyOn(console, 'error')
+      .mockImplementation(() => {});
+
+    const result = renderToStaticMarkup(<a href="javascript:alert(1)">x</a>);
+    consoleError.mockRestore();
+
+    expect(result).toBe(
+      isReact19
+        ? '<a href="javascript:throw new Error(&#x27;React has blocked a javascript: URL as a security precaution.&#x27;)">x</a>'
+        : '<a href="javascript:alert(1)">x</a>'
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index d8e3a6c..790d313 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3690,7 +3690,7 @@ lodash@^4.17.11:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash/-/lodash-4.18.1.tgz#ff2b66c1f6326d59513de2407bf881439812771c"
   integrity sha512-dMInicTPVE8d1e5otfwmmjlxkZoUpiVLwyeTdUsi/Caj/gfzzblBcCE5sRHV/AsjuCmxWrte2TNGSYuCeCq+0Q==
 
-loose-envify@^1.0.0, loose-envify@^1.1.0:
+loose-envify@^1.0.0:
   version "1.3.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/loose-envify/-/loose-envify-1.3.1.tgz#d1a8ad33fa9ce0e713d65fdd0ac8b748d478c848"
   dependencies:
@@ -4027,20 +4027,17 @@ qified@^0.10.1:
   dependencies:
     hookified "^2.1.1"
 
-react-dom@^18.0.0:
-  version "18.2.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-dom/-/react-dom-18.2.0.tgz#22aaf38708db2674ed9ada224ca4aa708d821e3d"
-  integrity sha512-6IMTriUmvsjHUjNtEDudZfuDQUoWXVxKHhlEGSk81n4YFS+r/Kl99wXiwlVXtPBtJenozv2P+hxDsw9eA7Xo6g==
+react-dom@^19.3.1:
+  version "19.3.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/react-dom/-/react-dom-19.3.1.tgz#b384c53cfcbe9c2a5d09d863b98455de9d68afe2"
+  integrity sha512-Y0bARz53lhEC1NMCASs0/j+faB/zqt3R8hpvg1e8+61ZVJ4UL0UdC4cBbXfZMcIuhrfgeILTLe+ZeBCavQPtKQ==
   dependencies:
-    loose-envify "^1.1.0"
-    scheduler "^0.23.0"
+    scheduler "^0.28.0"
 
-react@^18.0.0:
-  version "18.2.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react/-/react-18.2.0.tgz#555bd98592883255fa00de14f1151a917b5d77d5"
-  integrity sha512-/3IjMdb2L9QbBdWiW5e3P2/npwMBaU9mHCSCUzNln0ZCYbcfTsGbTJrU/kGemdH2IWmB2ioZ+zkxtmq6g09fGQ==
-  dependencies:
-    loose-envify "^1.1.0"
+react@^19.3.1:
+  version "19.3.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/react/-/react-19.3.1.tgz#26e9523fc36ea06be5050ebb780249a133260ad7"
+  integrity sha512-QNhWdt7nrgVWWQG58QuGsAR3jv3Hbe4mb4vz7w2csnHavciZJgda1CPNaldF6eVxv90ud3jUXpKlHL69gO38yw==
 
 readdirp@~3.6.0:
   version "3.6.0"
@@ -4171,12 +4168,10 @@ saxes@^6.0.0:
   dependencies:
     xmlchars "^2.2.0"
 
-scheduler@^0.23.0:
-  version "0.23.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/scheduler/-/scheduler-0.23.0.tgz#ba8041afc3d30eb206a487b6b384002e4e61fdfe"
-  integrity sha512-CtuThmgHNg7zIZWAXi3AsyIzA3n4xx7aNyjwC2VJldO2LMVDhFK+63xGqq6CsJH4rTAt6/M+N4GhZiDYPx9eUw==
-  dependencies:
-    loose-envify "^1.1.0"
+scheduler@^0.28.0:
+  version "0.28.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/scheduler/-/scheduler-0.28.0.tgz#03d3ca348aeaf8b7502f64468f217b27523f9695"
+  integrity sha512-juorfCmIkIw8tT+p5BXSm6PJjQF/ycEYmKyzURCIt/RaZIhL+PulbQ9Yu2z1HdOJDdqDTlxA1+xKBmHXJsczAw==
 
 semver@^5.6.0:
   version "5.7.0"