Changelog

v0.81.0-rc.0

Breaking

APIs: All react-native/Libraries/BugReporting APIs have been removed (9d4d8dcb02 by @huntie)
APIs: Add public JS API breaking change detection under yarn diff-api-snapshot script. (6b40f35032 by @coado)
APIs: Community CLI users: user-defined resolver.resolveRequest and serializer.getModulesRunBeforeMainModule Metro config now takes precedence over CLI defaults (fe2bcbf4ba by @robhogan)
Error Handling: Improve messaging and add error stack trace for uncaught throws. (5ba0e1f97a by @vzaidman)
Flow: The react-native package no longer ships with the flow directory (38acb4c074 by @huntie)
Node: Minimum Node version is now bumped to Node.js 22.14.0 (df39eadc03 by @huntie)
View: View no longer sets any default accessibility props, which should not result in visible changes in behaviour but may affect snapshot tests. (039a333df5 by @javache)
View: Upgrade View component to React 19. (eedd60b9e6 by @EvanBacon)

Android specific

APIs: Cleanup and internalize FpsDebugFrameCallback (cf6569bc18 by @cortinico)
CMake: Correctly propagate RN_SERIALIZABLE_STATE to 3rd party CMake targets. Users with custom CMake and C++ code should update to use target_compile_reactnative_options inside their CMakeLists.txt files.(c059ae1b77 by @cortinico)
FabricUIManager: Remove FabricUIManager.measure overload which accepts attachment positions (2ba86caf18 by @NickGerleman)
Kotlin: Migrate ViewManagerInterfaces to kotlin. Some types in code generated ViewManagerInterfaces might differ. e.g. this will start enforcing nullability in parameters of viewManagerInterface methods (e.g. String commands parameters are not nullable, view params are not nullable in any method, etc) (76ff1aa5c6 by @mdvacca)
Kotlin: Migrate com.facebook.react.ReactDelegate to Kotlin. Some users implementing this class in Kotlin could have breakages. (50ea5b4380 by @mateoguzmana)
Kotlin: Convert to Kotlin and internalize MountingManager (f33fdca876 by @cortinico)
textAlignVertical: Move textAlignVertical to paragraph attributes instead of text attributes (55fd8b26f8 by @joevilches)
TextLayoutManager: Make Java Side TextLayoutManager Internal (e82a677c79 by @NickGerleman)

iOS specific

RCTDisplayLink: Migrate RCTDisplayLink's API from RCTModuleData (70eeb9f541 by @RSNara)
SynchronouslyUpdateViewOnUIThread: SynchronouslyUpdateViewOnUIThread now accepts folly::dynamic instead of NSDictionary. Use https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/main/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/utils/platform/ios/react/utils/FollyConvert.h#L14 for conversion. (82279bd981 by @sammy-SC)
Xcode: Bump min Xcode to 16.1 (c27a8804a6 by @NickGerleman)

Added

APIs: Expose unstable_TextAncestorContext API (962a7dda44 by @huntie)
APIs: Expose additional *AnimationConfig types on the Animated namespace (11a1ad7a98 by @huntie)
APIs: InterpolationConfig is now exposed on the Animated namespace (b01a5f91fe by @huntie)
APIs: Expose ScrollViewImperativeMethods and ScrollViewScrollToOptions types to public API (f184b591cf by Antonio Pires)
APIs: Add --validate flag to build-types script for JS API snapshot validation. (f529fd6ba5 by @coado)
Bridging: Added support for bridging Class methods return types (e403b510d0 by @hoxyq)
Error Handling: Improve error messages when enum members are missing (12ced22f70 by Yannick Loriot)
Fantom: Add Fantom.getFabricUpdateProps for reading fabric update props scheduled via UIManager::updateShadowTree (cc442eb8c8 by @zeyap)
Flow: Add support for Flow opaque types in codegen for native modules (a15fc102e6 by @rubennorte)
HMR: Process HMR registerBundle calls from the same origin only (a9007ea586 by @jbroma)
IntersectionObserver: IntersectionObserver support for root with fixes for viewport offsets (c5b6716311 by @lunaleaps)
ReactNativeFeatureFlags: Allow Custom ReactNativeFeatureFlags for Shell 2.0 (bbc1e121c7 by Maddie Lord)
ScrollView: Added more Pending Decleration for ScrollView (a6908ad1a5 by @riteshshukla04)
ShadowNode: Added cloneMultiple to ShadowNode class. (1161fb4fcd by @bartlomiejbloniarz)
Typescript: Add pressRetentionOffset prop to be recognised by typescript in Text.d.ts (d94f4d8c9d by @iamAbhi-916)
URLSearchParams: Added size property to URLSearchParams implementation (9b1a8ffac4 by @louix)

Android specific

BaseViewManager: Adds support for onFocus / onBlur event dispatching logic to all native views that implement BaseViewManager (e960a28af7 by @Abbondanzo)
Edge To Edge: Add Android edge-to-edge opt-in support (09ef774ff6 by @zoontek)
RNGP: RNGP- Add support for exclusiveEnterpriseRepository to specify an internal Maven mirror. (6cb8dc37c7 by @cortinico)
RNTester: Added explicit build tool version to RNTester build.gradle to avoid automatic installation of Android SDK Build Tools. (35dba09724 by @mojavad)
ScrollView: Allow fadingEdgeLength to be set independently on the start and end of the ScrollView (a21a4b87c3 by Mark Verlingieri)
View: Support for onFocus and onBlur function calls in View components (af0a76cf5f by @Abbondanzo)

iOS specific

borderWidth: Add support for different borderWidths (70962ef3ed by @a-klotz-p8)
Modal: Allow to interactively swipe down Modals. (28986a7599 by @okwasniewski)
Package.swift: Added missing search path to Package.swift (592b09781b by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Add more logging around computeNightlyTarballURL in ios pre-build (1a6887bd70 by @cortinico)
Prebuild: Added backwards compatible use of prebuild through cocoapods (d8e00f0bb1 by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Ship the React-Core-prebuilt.podspec in package.json (46b562b9b3 by @cipolleschi)
Prebuild: Added support for using prebuilt RNCore with Cocoapods (90654e4ba2 by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Add React-Core-prebuild.podspec to integrate React native core prebuilds using Cocoapods (1a86ee17fb by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Added building XCFframework from the prebuild script (55534f518a by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Added building swift package from the prebuild script (3c01b1b6f0 by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Added downloading of hermes artifacts when pre-building for iOS. (41d2b5de0a by @chrfalch)
runtime: Added HERMES_ENABLE_DEBUGGER to debug configuration for the reactRuntime target. (560ac23001 by @chrfalch)

Changed

Animated: Animated now always flattens props.style, which fixes an error that results from props.style objects in which AnimatedNode instances are shadowed (i.e. flattened to not exist in the resulting props.style object). (da520848c9 by @yungsters)
Animated: Creates a feature flag that changes Animated to no longer produce invalid props.style if every AnimatedNode instance is shadowed via style flattening. (5c8c5388fc by @yungsters)
Animated: Enabled a feature flag that optimizes Animated to reduce memory usage. (2a13d20085 by @yungsters)
Error handling: Errors will no longer have the "js engine" suffix. (a293925280 by @yungsters)
Fibers: Reduces memory usage, by improving memory management of parent alternate fibers. (Previously, a parent fiber might retain memory associated with shadow nodes from a previous commit.) (0411c43b3a by @yungsters)
infoLog: Removed infoLog from react-native package (8a0cfec815 by @coado)
IntersectionObserver: Fixed IntersectionObserver#observe to avoid retaining memory for unmounted child nodes of observed views. (d945c5863a by @yungsters)
Jest: Improved default mocking for Jest unit tests. (1fd9508ecc by @yungsters)
LegacyArchitecture: Raise loglevel for assertion of LegacyArchitecture classes (38a4b62211 by @mdvacca)
LegacyArchitecture: Raise logLevel of LegacyArchitecture classes when minimizing of legacy architecture is enabled (0d1cde7f36 by @mdvacca)
Metro: Bump Metro to ^0.82.5 (083644647e by @robhogan)
React DevTools: Bumped React DevTools to 6.1.5 (c302902b1d by @hoxyq)
RuntimeExecutor: RuntimeExecutor: Remove noexcept from sync ui thread utils (7ef278af50 by @RSNara)
Typescript: Bump types/react to 19.1 (3ae9328571 by @gabrieldonadel)

Android specific

APIs: Deprecate DefaultNewArchitectureEntryPoint.load(Boolean, Boolean, Boolean) (efdf73983c by @cortinico)
APIs: Make com.facebook.react.views.common.ContextUtils internal (d1ef8f1fa3 by @cortinico)
deps: Bump AGP to 8.11.0 (04858ecbab by @cortinico)
deps: Bump Gradle to 8.14.2 (e20bb56f3b by @cortinico)
JS FPS: Hide JS FPS on performance overlay as not accurate (feec8d0148 by @cortinico)
Updated targetSdk to 36 in Android. (477d8df312 by @kikoso)
Kotlin: Convert UIManagerModuleConstantsHelper to Kotlin (45fd7feb9f by @cortinico)
Kotlin: Migrate ThemedReactContext to Kotlin (78c9671c24 by @cortinico)
Kotlin: Convert ReactViewGroup to Kotlin (48395d346b by @cortinico)
Kotlin: Migrate com.facebook.react.LazyReactPackage to Kotlin. (b4ae5c1de1 by @Xintre)
Kotlin: Apply Collections Kotlin DSL helpers in ReactAndroid package (b2ffd34a39 by @l2hyunwoo)

iOS specific

Accessibility: Only generate recursive accessibility label for accessible elements (7e2f17ffe2 by @janicduplessis)
GC: Hermes GC is now triggered in response to iOS memory pressure warning. (12b2b56102 by @yungsters)
Gradients: Optimised Radial Gradients. (f238b74658 by @intergalacticspacehighway)
Gradients: Optimised Linear Gradients. (2f3b104224 by @intergalacticspacehighway)
Prebuild: Simplified logging in prebuild scripts (1477cc0dbd by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Fail fast when pod install if using prebuild and frameworks are not present in the disk. (60c01b4715 by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Update ReactCodegen to support Core prebuilds (152cb538f6 by @chrfalch)

Deprecated

hasTVPreferredFocus: Deprecate hasTVPreferredFocus (cfb6c968dd by @Abbondanzo)
SafeAreaView: Deprecate SafeAreaView due to its iOS-only support and incompatibility with Android 15 edge-to-edge behavior; recommend using react-native-safe-area-context instead. (73133a31d5 by @kikoso)
ShadowNode: ShadowNode::Shared is now deprecated. Use std::shared_ptr<const ShadowNode> instead. (0e175ce5b6 by @sammy-SC)
ShadowNode: Deprecate type aliases ShadowNode::Unshared and ShadowNode::Weak in favour of std::shared_ptr<ShadowNode> and std::weak_ptr<ShadowNode> (12fb101e30 by @sammy-SC)

iOS specific

RCTFollyConvert: RCTFollyConvert.h is deprecated please use /ReactCommon/react/utils/platform/ios/react/utils/FollyConvert.h instead (685a60e6b4 by @sammy-SC)

Removed

Yoga: Remove YogaLayoutableShadowNode::cleanLayout() and Fix ParagraphShadowNode Font Size Invalidation Logic (7979c7ce06 by @NickGerleman)

Android specific

APIs: Internalize NetworkingModule's UriHandler, RequestBodyHandler, and ResponseHandler APIs (987e3f8c00 by @huntie)
DeveloperSettings: Remove deprecated isStartSamplingProfilerOnInit from DeveloperSettings (ccb9edc717 by @cortinico)
JSC: Remove 1st party JSC support (8174d02811 by @cortinico)
JSEngineResolutionAlgorithm: Remove and cleanup JSEngineResolutionAlgorithm (0954c1db45 by @cortinico)

iOS specific

JSC: Remove code from jsc folder from React Native (331fab0683 by @cipolleschi)
JSC: Remove the option to use JSC from core (a6ea626255 by @cipolleschi)
Turbo Modules Disable Turbo Modules fix for #51103 (dictionary stripped out when value is null) until more testing can be done. (ca5f4d1721 by @javache)

Fixed

APIs: Renamed argument names in the onContentSizeChange callback's type definition (0386b9bd51 by @pchalupa)
BindingsInstallerHolder: Fixed deprecation message for BindingsInstallerHolder (4a8fda83e3 by @tomekzaw)
C++: Add default: case to avoid warnings/errors for targets that compile with -Wswitch-enum and -Wswitch-default enabled (22b8b53c77 by @NSProgrammer)
C++: Add default: case to avoid warnings/errors for targets that compile with -Wswitch-enum and -Wswitch-default enabled (9079b53c6f by @NSProgrammer)
C++: Fix clang tidy for react-native (3e49d17f58 by @RSNara)
Color APIs: Fix the serialization of the alpha channel in the rgba() color string format. (1cc12ce7fd by @piaskowyk)
Color APIs: Fix incorrect flattening / non-rendering of views with backgroundColor set to rgba(255, 255, 255, 127/256) (b1e8729f4d by @rubennorte)
Fantom: Support viewport offsets for Fantom root and fix getBoundingClientRect to respect viewport offsets (b5c62f52d1 by @lunaleaps)
IntersectionObserver: Fix potential leak inside IntersectionObserver (a55f430daa by @RSNara)
LogBox: Remove LogBox patch, de-duplicating errors (e0797d0e03 by @rickhanlonii)
ScrollView: Expose ScrollView.getNativeScrollRef on the type definition to allow accessing the underlying HostInstance. (4b91b63094 by @zbauman3)
Typescript: Add ImageSource type to TypeScript (42ca46b95c by @okwasniewski)
Typescript: Devtools TS Types (8f189fce03 by @krystofwoldrich)
Yoga: Fix possible invalid measurements with width or height is zero pixels (5cc4d0a086 by @NickGerleman)

Android specific

BaseViewManager: Remove focus change listener when dropping/recycling view instances (94cbf206d6 by @Abbondanzo)
BoringLayout: Include fallback line spacing in BoringLayout (2fe6c1a947 by @NickGerleman)
Bridgeless: Adding shouldForwardToReactInstance check in ReactDelegate for Bridgeless (0f7bf66bba by @arushikesarwani94)
Codegen: Fix combining schema in Codegen process to exclude platforms correctly (6104ccdc6e by @arushikesarwani94)
Edge To Edge: Fix Dimensions window values on Android < 15 when edge-to-edge is enabled (85d10ed904 by @zoontek)
FBReactNativeSpec: Extract out FBReactNativeSpec's core components including Unimplemented from auto-generated registry (b417b0c2d5 by @arushikesarwani94)
Gradle: Fix Gradle v8.0 builds by using .set() for Property (777397667c by @meghancampbel9)
ImageFetcher: Change free to delete to call destructor of ImageFetcher and release contextContainer. (90da666691 by @WoLewicki)
Modal: Fix Modal first frame being rendered on top-left corner (b950fa2afb by @cortinico)
onTextLayout: Fix onTextLayout metrics not incorporating ReactTextViewManagerCallback (a6a2884d63 by @NickGerleman)
Text: Fix more text rounding bugs (1fe3ff86c3 by @NickGerleman)
Text: Fix TextLayoutManager MeasureMode Regression (99119a2104 by @NickGerleman)
TextInput: Fix bug where focus would jump to top text input upon clearing a separate text input. (79c47987b7 by @joevilches)

iOS specific

Gradient: Gradient interpolation for transparent colors (097d482446 by @intergalacticspacehighway)
Prebuild: Fixed wrong path in prebuild hermes check (be11f2ee77 by @chrfalch)
Prebuild: Fixed resolving build type when downloading hermes artifacts (9371e20192 by @chrfalch)
Package.swift: Add missing React-RCTSettings to Package.swift (e40c1d265a by @chrfalch)
Package.swift: Fixed defines in Package.swift (e2f6ce4ddf by @chrfalch)
RCTImage: Allow for consuming RCTImage in Swift codebase by enabling "Defines Module" option (1d80586730 by @kkafar)
RCTImageComponentView: Fix RCTImageComponentView image loading after source props change with no layout invalidation (cd5d74518b by Nick Lefever)
RCTScreenSize: Make RCTScreenSize take horizontal orientation into account (50ce8c77a7 by @okwasniewski)
TextInput: Fixed blank space at the bottom of multiline TextInput on iOS (2da4a6059a by @tomekzaw)
Turbo Modules: Turbo Modules- Fixes dictionary stripped out when value is null (4a4fd1cb8b by @zhongwuzw)

v0.80.1

Added

Flow: Publish top-level Flow types for react-native (fbbd20dd63 by @buschco)
Flow: Fix typo when publishing Flow types for react-native (50667eceb1 by @aswinandro)

Fixed

jest: Fix missing RefreshControlMock source in Jest preset (6044e01460 by @huntie)

Android specific

runtime: Fix crash on ReactInstance due to null returned for getViewManagerNames (f6b7bd93d8 by @cortinico)
TurboModules: Emitting event from turbo module crashes on 32bit android (36ddf853c3 by @vladimirivanoviliev)

v0.80.0

Breaking

APIs: Subpath imports to the internal react-native/virtualized-lists package are not allowed. (be8393c41b by @iwoplaza)
APIs: The react-native package now defines package.json "exports". (319ba0afd2 by @huntie)
C++: Dispatch folly::dynamic events with r-value instead of l-value (12e5df844b by @rozele)
C++: Introduce beforeload callback arg into ReactInstance::loadScript (061174c150 by @RSNara)
deps: Updated eslint-config-react-native to depend on eslint-plugin-react-hooks v5.2.0 from v4.6.0. This includes a breaking change in which ESLint will no longer recognize component names that start with 1 or more underscores followed by a capital letter. (https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/25162) (4de592756b by @yungsters)
NewAppScreen: The NewAppScreen component is redesigned and moved to the react-native/new-app-screen package (3cf0102007 by @huntie)

Android specific

APIs: Deleting ChoreographerCompat, Use Choreographer.FrameCallback instead (f8b2956437 by @mdvacca)
APIs: Deleting deprecated StandardCharsets (40b38d0a44 by @mdvacca)
APIs:: Make DeviceInfoModule internal (f02607badb by @mateoguzmana)
APIs:: Make ModuleDataCleaner internal (6fa1864d52 by @mateoguzmana)
DevX: Removed loadSplitBundleFromServer from DevSupportManager interface (86cd31eb6b by @javache)
Kotlin: Convert ColorPropConverter to Kotlin (57768bfbcd by @fabriziocucci)
Kotlin: Convert DevSupportManagerBase to Kotlin. If you're subclassing this class, you will have to adjust some of the parameters as types have changed during the migration. (9da485b54c by @cortinico)
Kotlin: Convert NetworkModule to Kotlin, mark methods as final (8726e26348 by @Abbondanzo)
Kotlin: Convert ReactEditText to Kotlin. If you're subclassing this type you'll need to adjust your signatures. (cac27d15be by @cortinico)
Kotlin: Convert ReactInstanceDevHelper to Kotlin. Some users implementing this class in Kotlin could have breakages. As this is a devtools/frameworks API we're not marking this as breaking. (09492075e8 by @cortinico)
Kotlin: Convert ReactTextInputManager to Kotlin (ab47834eb1 by @cortinico)

iOS specific

APIs: Delete BridgeModuleBatchDidComplete config helpers (cbad8aafa5 by @philIip)
NativeModules: Cleanup queue configs for some native modules (5b5cf0e199 by @philIip)

Added

Accessibility: Add accessibilityOrder to iOS and Android (8cf4d5b531 by @jorge-cab)
Codegen: Codegen utility functions and types are now exported from the root package (c7aa3f3fe7 by @j-piasecki)
Events: Add UIManager::add/RemoveEventListener (b0f2083d9d by @zeyap)
Events: EventEmitter addListener and removeListener APIs (ff4537c15e by @rozele)
Image: Support headers [crossOrigin and referralPolicy] in Image without src and srcSet and only remote source.uri (49ea9d80b8 by @anupriya13)
JS: Add compact option to react-native/babel-preset to allow disabling whitespace removal (86911003dc by @jnields)
JS: Added no-deep-imports rule to eslint-plugin-react-native. (87809d9326 by @coado)
Networking: Implementation for URLSearchParams (af1f1e4fe5 by Ritesh Shukla)
Networking: URL accessors for unimplemented Methods (3dac90006f by @riteshshukla04)
NewArch: Add warning when the app runs with the legacy architecture (706b6e878d by @cipolleschi)
Pressable: Expose onPressMove as base prop for Pressable (6df938c72e by Regina Tuk)
ScrollView: Add showsVerticalScrollIndicator in ScrollViewProps.cpp SetProp (bc90c839aa by @anupriya13)
StyleSheet: Added slash of alpha support using rgb() (7441127040 by @zhongwuzw)
StyleSheet: Adds JS changes for radial gradient (1b45dc8033 by @intergalacticspacehighway)
StyleSheet: CSS Added hwb(H W B / A) notation (692b05e77d by @zhongwuzw)
Testing: Added a custom Jest resolver to opt out from handling "exports" in tests (ee9bd851ac by @j-piasecki)
Text: Support minimumFontScale in paragraphAttributes (f53d066d26 by @anupriya13)
TurboModules: Create TurboModuleWithJSIBindings interface (1acd45950b by @zeyap)
TypeScript: Added type definitions for Colors object in LaunchScreen module to enhance code readability and type safety. (c2864c160d by @qnnp-me)
TypeScript: Configure the "react-native-strict-api" opt in for our next-gen TypeScript API (6ea24f7bb9 by @huntie)
runtime: Allow setting SurfaceStartedCallback on UIManager (c5e9ef53ae by @zeyap)
runtime: Move rncxx scheduler to oss (744a0f8385 by @zeyap)

Android specific

Accessibility: Expose Android's screenReaderFocusable prop (4ce093154d by @jorge-cab)
Animated: Create UIManagerNativeAnimatedDelegate to potentially drive per frame NativeAnimated update (8d6098a645 by @zeyap)
APIs: Collections DSL functions for Kotlin(buildReadableMap, buildReadableArray) (78dbbaafdd by @l2hyunwoo)
C++: Allow invoking synchronouslyUpdateViewOnUIThread from c++ via UIManager (4912958812 by @zeyap)
infra: Generate keep.xml to prevent resource shrinking (864833fca9 by @jakex7)
NewArch: Add a legacyWarningsEnabled property to enable Legacy Warnings on NewArch (7ca2811750 by @cortinico)
NewArch: Warn Legacy Arch users if they use a Component with a ShadowNode with YogaMeasureFunction.measure() function. That Component will stop working on NewArch. (9345c88a61 by @cortinico)
StyleSheet: Adds android changes for radial gradient (a2409941c2 by @intergalacticspacehighway)
TextInput: Add new prop for filtering drag and drop targeting to text inputs (d10dd7130c by @Abbondanzo)

iOS specific

Accessibility: Expose iOS's accessibilityRespondsToUserInteraction as a prop (fd8a3456ca by @jorge-cab)
AppDelegate: Allow eager initialization of RCTRootViewFactory (ddbb5fda09 by @mdjastrzebski)
AppDelegate: On RCTReactNativeFactory add initWithDelegate overload with argument to specify release level for an application (df282a0538 by @jorge-cab)
AppDelegate: Useful error message about setting dependency provider (e1464c0975 by @okwasniewski)
Codegen: Introduce module/component annotations inside package.json (76436d35c7 by @RSNara)
InteropLayer: Enabled useFabricInterop by default in OSS (21c858ce3e by @arushikesarwani94)
NewArch: Add flag to enable or disable legacy warning. (ce7a602edf by @cipolleschi)
NewArch: Add warnings when a legacy module is used in the Interop Layer. (7b500b8522 by @cipolleschi)
NewArch: Add warnings when components are loaded using the interop layer. (8acc53da57 by @cipolleschi)
NewArch: Automate setting the RCTNewArchEnabled flag (3b3d502ccf by @cipolleschi)
NewArch: Show warnings in the New Architecture when modules are loaded using RCT_EXPORT_MODULE (4d40882172 by @cipolleschi)
StyleSheet: Radial gradient (d7533dce1c by @intergalacticspacehighway)
TextInput: Add new prop for filtering drag and drop targeting to text inputs (93f12eb71d by @Abbondanzo)
TurboModules: Introduce unstableRequiresMainQueueSetup api to modules (636665c1c2 by @RSNara)

Changed

Animated: Animated components' ref will now only reattach when receiving new props if the new props contain different AnimatedValue or AnimatedEvent instances. (Previously, Animated components' ref would always reattach when receiving new props.) (eeab47e61a by @yungsters)
Animated: When an Animated component is unmounted, any completion callbacks will now be called in a microtask instead of during the commit phase. (da1bf8d1d1 by @yungsters)
APIs: InteractionManager is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Its behavior has been changed to be the same as setImmediate, and callers should migrate away from it. (a8a4ab10d0 by @yungsters)
Codegen: Changed react-native-codegen to support types under CodegenTypes namespace (5349b7c7b5 by @j-piasecki)
deps: Bump minimum Metro from 0.81.0 to ^0.81.3 || ^0.82.0 (6606a1da84 by @robhogan)
deps: Bump React to 19.1 (0e11e6a28b by @cipolleschi)
deps: Replace hsr_core dependency for react profiling with hz_tracing dependency (0f55ef7754 by @metaadrianstone)
deps: Update debugger-frontend from bc635fa...343405b (647af1c4ca by @huntie)
deps: Update Metro to ^0.82.0 (0ad192003e by @robhogan)
Flow: Changed Flow for the React Native monorepo, so that React no longer has to be in scope when using JSX. (1bb7446993 by @yungsters)
Hermes: Configured Hermes Parser for Metro to target React 19, resulting in Component Syntax no longer producing forwardRef calls. (f2518d4374 by @yungsters)
Hermes: Configured Hermes Parser for ReactNative to target React 19, resulting in Component Syntax no longer producing forwardRef calls. (68cad5d2d3 by @yungsters)
JS: eslint-config-react-native now respects rules disabled by eslint-config-prettier. (6346689c3d by @yungsters)
JS: Replaced let with const where applicable for better code standards and micro-optimization. (38fefb2771 by @sanjaiyan-dev)
TypeScript: Re-expose src/* subpaths when not using the Strict TypeScript API (1a46b203b8 by @huntie)
TypeScript: Replace deprecated React.ElementRef usages to React.ComponentRef (12147e3bee by @mateoguzmana)

Android specific

API: Make mHybridData in CxxReactPackage protected (0c58ccf501 by @zeyap)
APIs: Make ReactRawTextManager internal. We verified no popular libraries are impacted by this change (788213f91a by @cortinico)
Blob: Creating of Blobs from large files now works. File size can now be upto available (free) heap size. (81e47af764 by @giantslogik)
C++: Enable INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION for libappmodules.so in OSS (2da062f9d1 by @cortinico)
C++: Enable INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION for React Native (f107c28d2f by @cortinico)
deps: AGP to 8.9.2 (e4bf88a076 by @cortinico)
deps: Gradle to 8.14 (0e963aaa54 by @cortinico)
deps: Gradle to 8.14.1 (827a6851d0 by @cortinico)
deps: Kotlin to 2.1.20 (a3d38d5722 by @cortinico)
DevX: Automatically use Metro bundler IP address when installing apps on Android (d816ba0a70 by @hrastnik)
DevX: Leading slash supplied to DevServerHelper.downloadBundleResourceFromUrlSync will now be trimmed and emit a warning. (cf67427406 by @yungsters)
Kotlin: ReactActivity has been migrated to Kotlin. (403feb9bc2 by @rshest)
Kotlin: Migrate BlobProvider to Kotlin (5d1febf7de by @JatinDream11)
Kotlin: Migrate DevSupportManagerFactory to Kotlin - We couldn't find any implementation of this class in OSS. Some Kotlin implementers might have to change the method signatures. However this interface is not supposed to be extended in OSS. (0bd0635be6 by @cortinico)
Kotlin: Migrate DynamicFromArray to Kotlin (74e8c78268 by @BogiKay)
Kotlin: Migrate DynamicFromMap.java to Kotlin (86a7388355 by @artus9033)
Kotlin: Migrate DynamicFromObject to Kotlin (867858df65 by @yasir6jan)
Kotlin: Migrate FileReaderModule to Kotlin (07a1fb8e6b by @devanshsaini11)
Kotlin: Migrate FrescoBasedReactTextInlineImageShadowNode to Kotlin (30030c5a76 by @nitinshukla413)
Kotlin: Migrate Inspector to Kotlin (93efaeb241 by @Vin-Xi)
Kotlin: Migrate JavaModuleWrapper to Kotlin (79d3eea0b7 by drrefactor)
Kotlin: Migrate JSBundleLoader to Kotlin (de165a2cfd by @yogeshpaliyal)
Kotlin: Migrate NativeAnimatedModule to kotlin (de9b4f3642 by @zeyap)
Kotlin: Migrate NativeAnimatedNodesManager to kotlin (bfb274c244 by @zeyap)
Kotlin: Migrate ReactClippingViewGroupHelper to Kotlin (2834825b8b by priyanka.raghuvanshi)
Kotlin: Migrate ReactEditTextInputConnectionWrapper to Kotlin (5c9883b018 by @Q1w1N)
Kotlin: Migrate ReactLifecycleStateManager to Kotlin (800b12406f by @rohitverma-d11)
Kotlin: Migrate ReactStylesDiffMap to Kotlin (a0f016ecad by @poonamjain96)
Kotlin: Migrate UiThreadUtil to Kotlin (1033584c20 by @riteshshukla04)
Kotlin: Migrate ViewGroupManager to kotlin (761b15888d by @riteshshukla04)
Kotlin: Refactor class FrescoBasedTextInlineImageSpan from Java to Kotlin. (cb51d25ba8 by @gouravkhunger)
Layout: Prevent currently focused child from getting clipped when removeClippedSubviews is enabled (81405b450c by @jorge-cab)
runtime: Do not crash when parent view state can't be found (ade41c851b by @javache)
StyleSheet: Change to use new Background and new Border drawables by default (132a871b46 by @jorge-cab)
Text: Incorporate maxLines and ellipsization into text layout (b1367eeb81 by @NickGerleman)

iOS specific

CocoaPods: Enable DEFINES_MODULE in React-jsc.podspec (473e42bbc3 by @krozniata)
Image: Update RCTImageLoader.mm to cast loadHandler to RCTImageLoaderLoggable before calling shouldEnablePerfLogging (2562440385 by Aaron Coplan)
ScrollView: Overwrite betterHitTest in RCTScrollViewComponentView instead of changing layout metrics of the container view (850760ab61 by @j-piasecki)
Text: Replace a workaround for measuring multiline text with maximumNumberOfLines on iOS with a proper solution (77cdaa8733 by @j-piasecki)

Deprecated

Events: Deprecate *EventData types on Image, Switch, TextInput components. These can be substituted for *Event, e.g. NativeSyntheticEvent<ImageLoadEventData> becomes ImageLoadEvent. (701859b397 by @huntie)

Android specific

APIs: Correctly deprecate ReactContextBaseJavaModule.getCurrentActivity() method (1408c69fd8 by @cortinico)
APIs: Deprecate UIManagerType.DEFAULT, replaced by UIManagerType.LEGACY (a8668319ad by @mdvacca)

iOS specific

Image: Deprecate loadImageForURL in favor of new signature which uses completionHandlerWithMetadata (43c9a609de by Aaron Coplan)
NewArch: Deprecate the RCT_NEW_ARCH_ENABLED and the RCTSetNewArchEnabled (6dd721b258 by @cipolleschi)

Removed

Android specific

APIs: TouchesHelper is no longer part of the public API (2196597e2b by @javache)
APIs: Deprecated ResourceDrawableIdHelper.instance (8de401c625 by @javache)
APIs: Remove FabricSoLoader from public API (902f82656e by @javache)
APIs:: Make StateWrapperImpl Internal (9f941c50c9 by @NickGerleman)
Events: Removed (un)registerEventEmitter from EventDispatcher interface (d1c0f57073 by @javache)
Events: Removed deprecated EventBeatManager(ReactApplicationContext) constructor (c97af95a7f by @javache)

iOS specific

APIs: Delete RCTComputeScreenScale (094876367f by @RSNara)
APIs: Remove RCTFloorPixelValue (dc97df10a2 by @RSNara)

Fixed

Alert: Add missing type variation {login: string, password: string} to AlertType type definition to properly support login-password prompt callbacks (c6a075bcc7 by @assynu)
C++: Add explicit folly/dynamic.h include where it is actually used (0b1d0e84ee by @mzlee)
Codegen: Do not generate Apple specific files for Android (e83ece0d17 by @cipolleschi)
Codegen: Fixed codegen breaking when a subset of modulesConformingToProtocol fields was specified or when the value was string (e4ef685dd7 by @j-piasecki)
CompatCheck: Allow union changes when the new element is in the middle of the union (69ccbc3943 by @elicwhite)
DevSupport: Made DevServerHelper and its method open so that they can be overridden. (2a0c1e6a9e by @chrfalch)
Kotlin: Made function removeView open in Kotlin class (9d11dcd3b0 by @chrfalch)
NewAppScreen: Fix Networking URL in New app screen (89e6c72fd4 by @riteshshukla04)
PullToRefresh: Fixed crash in RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView#updateProps (fab7fa88e3 by @javache)
Runtime: Align timer IDs and timer function argument error handling with web standards. (480a4642e5 by @kitten)
StyleSheet: Outline now takes into account outline-offset to calculate its border-radius, same as web. (b47bfcef5f by @jorge-cab)
StyleSheet: Wrong borderBottomEndRadius on RTL (68d6ada448 by @riteshshukla04)
Switch: Fixed switches correctly reverting to controlled state (aa8c072870 by @javache)
Text: Fix New Arch handling of inline views when text truncated (99f962627f by @NickGerleman)
Text: Fixed text not updating correctly after changing font scale in settings (c008604e0a by @j-piasecki)
TurboModules: Throw ParsingException when ReactModule doesn't conform to TurboModule invariants (c5132f485f by @GijsWeterings)
TypeScript: Fix TS docs for contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior (24ba7dfe6f by @steinalex)
TypeScript: Fix generated types in react-native/virtualized-lists being used without opt-in (c9f2055097 by @j-piasecki)
TypeScript: Fixed the generated type definitions for Animated.FlatList and Animated.SectionList to correctly infer item types. (9be5ac1010 by @j-piasecki)
TypeScript: Reference global.d.ts using path so they can be resolved by TSC (6399caef63 by @krystofwoldrich)
VirtualizeSectionList: Fix VirtualizeSectionList generic arguments (44b0f5560b) by @coado
VirtualizedList: Skip cloning Fragments in ListEmptyComponent to avoid onLayout warning (2b0189b964 by @mateoguzmana)

Android specific

Accessibility: Settings.Global.TRANSITION_ANIMATION_SCALE accepts comma as decimal separator (8b11970adb by @vzaidman)
Animated: Ensure latest offset value is synced to native (3e3094c3dd by Martin Booth)
Animated: Fix BatchExecutionOpCodes.OP_CODE_SET_ANIMATED_NODE_OFFSET mapping to call setAnimatedNodeOffset (rather than setAnimatedNodeValue) (9efcdc091c by Martin Booth)
Animated: Fixes memory leak - Close a view leak due to lossy onAnimationEnd callback (313d7d79d4 by @knappam)
Animated: Sync offset and value from native -> js in separate fields (2efe8094c0 by Martin Booth)
Codegen: Fix RNCodegen.js for generating ComponentDescriptors.cpp (d8b0e050c4 by @arushikesarwani94)
Events: Fixed crash when event is emitted after instance is shutdown (6dd5a838c3 by @javache)
Events: Removed deprecated EventDispatcher#receiveTouches (7056d20984 by @javache)
FlatList: Fix crash with nested FlatLists and fix edge case with nested views (9526406fc2 by @jorge-cab)
FlatList: Fix keyboard navigation on lists with removeClippedSubviews enabled (c068c599c6 by @jorge-cab)
FlatList: Fix keyboard navigation on lists with removeClippedSubviews enabled (fc9f2fe0ea by @jorge-cab)
infra: Fix crash when passing null initialProps (ee85957fd6 by @javache)
Kotlin: Made Arguments.java nullsafe (c8f01ffc3e by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made BaseJavaModule.java nullsafe (77ea9fd1f8 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made BlobModule.java nullsafe (c80ac8fcf2 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made BlobProvider.java nullsafe (020db409a2 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made BundleDownloader.java nullsafe (61d4b04159 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made CxxInspectorPackagerConnection.java nullsafe (fd23a08a3a by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made DebugOverlayController.java nullsafe (e9e4c2adaf by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made DevServerHelper.java nullsafe (311cef3c0d by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made DevSupportManagerBase.java nullsafe (adbcaef1e1 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made DialogModule.java nullsafe (4e7d09ceff by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made DynamicFromArray.java nullsafe (3665046c14 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made DynamicFromMap.java nullsafe (dcb2dbb2c3 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made DynamicFromObject.java nullsafe (a0e3490ff5 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made FabricUIManager.java nullsafe (97ddd17e5e by @javache)
Kotlin: Made FabricUIManager.java nullsafe (ea2fbd453f by @javache)
Kotlin: Made FileReaderModule.java nullsafe (8f5aaf13b2 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made Inspector.java as nullsafe (8d72e5eeb9 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made JavaScriptModuleRegistry.java as nullsafe (bf911e1f92 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made JSBundleLoader.java as nullsafe (9d21f97ebe by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made JSDebuggerWebsocketClient.java nullsafe (3289569747 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made JSONArguments.java as nullsafe (12b22dc57c by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made JsonWriterHelper.java nullsafe (30da6ca84a by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made JSPointerDispatcher.java nullsafe (c025bf6c72 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ModuleHolder.java nullsafe (d97aba5cd7 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ModuleSpec.java as nullsafe (1e4d016950 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made MountingManager.java nullsafe (7aaf0cb3f1 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made MountItemDispatcher.java nullsafe (e957bdb8fa by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made MultipartStreamReader.java nullsafe (b40b1e679e by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made NativeModule.java as nullsafe (005c11ea0a by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made NativeModuleRegistry.java nullsafe (8aaccef2ee by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made NetworkingModule.java nullsafe (9b30cdd008 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made PromiseImpl.java nullsafe (4c8ea858a5 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactApplicationContext.java as nullsafe (f86de9724b by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactBAseTeextShadowNode.java nullsafe (dbb5a23cad by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactContextBaseJavaModule.java as nullsafe (27179a7cf2 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactHostImpl.java nullsafe (568ba647cf by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactMarker.java as nullsafe (911c11f129 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactTextAnchorViewManager.java nullsafe (e04b5b3ecf by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactTextShadowNode.java nullsafe (3857aa8baf by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactTextView.java nullsafe (021491bf51 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReactTextViewManager.java nullsafe (1929ebd00e by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ReconnectingWebSocket.java nullsafe (ff6601bfb7 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made StackTraceHelper.java nullsafe (14de1c1cba by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made Task.java nullsafe (eba9ebe0a9 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made TextAttributeProps.java nullsafe (623dcc3902 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ThemedReactContext.java nullsafe (552338ce9f by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made TouchTargetHelper.java nullsafe (02fc3bd58c by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made TurboModuleInteropUtils.java nullsafe (90184d20e1 by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made TurboModuleManager.java nullsafe (419b68f38a by @GijsWeterings)
Kotlin: Made ViewManagerRegistry.java nullsafe (af516266db by @GijsWeterings)
Layout: Restored the possibility to extend LayoutAnimationController (bca7c5a553 by @tomekzaw)
Linking: Ensure Linking.sendIntent promises resolve or reject (6609ba98e5 by @Abbondanzo)
Networking: Fix fetch of content scheme uris failing on Android. (87c54a7eba by @giantslogik)
PointerEvents: Prevent onPointerLeave from dispatching during button presses (833ab6fe1b by @Abbondanzo)
ScrollView: Fix occasional syncronization issue in ScrollView when rendering dynamic content with content offset (8f209acb3f by @fabriziocucci)
StyleSheet: Fix incorrect clip to padding box on new Background and Border drawables (989b3f61a0 by @jorge-cab)
StyleSheet: Fix inset shadow edge cases (0929697a6d by @joevilches)
StyleSheet: Fix translucent borders on Android overlapping bug (57779cebf0 by @jorge-cab)
Text: Assume full container width when ellipsizing line (e565c662d7 by @NickGerleman)
Text: Correctly Pass SurfaceID to TextLayoutManager (6f0a0a5c2c by @NickGerleman)
Text: Double selection with dataDetectorType and links (70aced5eb1 by @joevilches)
Text: Fix selectable prop not working correctly on initial render (old-arch) (5ed486cc8f by @mateoguzmana)
Text: Fix keyboard navigation on lists with removeClippedSubviews enabled (bbff754db3 by @jorge-cab)
TextInput: Can now focus TextInput with keyboard (e00028f6bb by @joevilches)
TextInput: Fix broken focus behavior for TextInput in older Android versions (< 9) (fb62355555) by @joevilches
TextInput: Fix Non-uniform border colors on TextInput (42251ec0ed by @NickGerleman)
TurboModules: Fix crash when TurboModule event emitters are used on arm32 (6e701ce080 by @javache)

iOS specific

Accessibility: RCTDeviceInfo: fix crash due to failure to get AccessibilityManager (ac23323da1 by Adam Ernst)
Animated: Fix Recycling of Animated Images (1a9adfba16 by @NickGerleman)
API: Remove deprecated ATOMIC_VAR_INIT macro in RCTProfile.m (21bf7cf6cf by @rmaz)
C++: Avoid build failure on Catalyst (x86_64) (0f534293af by @cipolleschi)
CocoaPods: Corrected the path from "$(PODS_ROOT)/fas_float/include" to "$(PODS_ROOT)/fast_float/include" in the HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS configuration. (01881017d3 by @DorianMazur)
CocoaPods: Put back the folly_compiler_flag function to make libraries install pods (3b17cdb643 by @cipolleschi)
Codegen: Fix codegen crawling all library code with componentProvider defined in config (65aa819811 by @kkafar)
Codegen: Fix codegen extracting .class from complex component classes (f2b19608cc by @gabrieldonadel)
Codegen: Generate ReactCodegen.podspec only for apps. (18a7c8d57c by @cipolleschi)
Codegen: Skip codegen for selectively disabled libraries in react-native.config.js (7681036537 by @aattola)
Codegen: Skip codegen for selectively disabled libraries in react-native.config.js (be8595b18a by @ismarbesic)
Image: Fix animated images missing from offscreen render (d1a090b0af by @NickGerleman)
Image: Fixed accessible prop no-opts on Image components (e3f7c8f456 by @jorge-cab)
infra: Avoid race condition crash in RCTDataRequestHandler invalidate (44810f7498 by @zhongwuzw)
infra: Check .pnpm folder when looking for third-party components. (91d034533e by @kirill3333)
infra: Fix bug: unstable_hasComponent(*) = true for unregistered components for n > 1th call. (f4d99d6a23 by @RSNara)
infra: Fix bug: unstable_hasComponent(*) = true for unregistered components for n > 1th call. (fa9d082747 by @RSNara)
infra: Ignore build/ and DerivedData/ directories when reading .plist files. (c783128f6e by @tjzel)
infra: Properly check for debug schemes when building hermes from source (bef5cc1007 by @WoLewicki)
InteropLayer: Fixed adding child views to a native view using the interop layer (d53a60dd23 by @chrfalch)
LogBox: Fix disappearing redbox on initial load of an invalid bundle. (4cc9db1cd5 by @aleqsio)
ScrollView: Fixed touch events not being dispatched to ScrollView's children when they overflow the content container (6ecd9a43f1 by @j-piasecki)
StyleSheet: Box shadows on iOS are faster (52173ab701 by @joevilches)
Swift: Make fmt and SocketRocket Swift friendly (3f41fe2948 by @cipolleschi)
Switch: Fix "on" and "off" announcements on Switch (db6e000023 by @joevilches)
Text: ParagraphState is correctly deallocated when recycling Text (a5a71f115f by @javache)
Text: Allow links that encorporate entire <Text> to be keyboard accessible (83fae860df by @joevilches)
Text: Correctly announce "link" on nested text if its the entire text element (bffb414291 by @joevilches)
Text: Selection range not respected when changing text or selection when selection is forced (d32ea66e6a by Olivier Bouillet)
TextInput: Fix TextInput onContentSizeChange event being dispatched only once on iOS on the new architecture (5fd5188172 by @j-piasecki)