0.71.5

Changed

• Bump CLI to 10.2.2 and Metro to 0.73.9 (4c3bc24893 by @kelset), contains:
  • CLI fix: correctly list ios devices and simulators (relevant PR)
  • Metro fix: fix watching contents of new directories in NodeWatcher (ab86982 by @robhogan)

Android specific

• Bump react-native-gradle-plugin to 0.71.17 (bf490d379f by @kelset), contains:
  • Fix patch for codegen for 0.71 (ec3681143e by @kelset)

iOS specific

• Remove ruby-version from 0.71 (1d22e29146 by @cipolleschi)

Fixed

Android specific

• Fix race condition in ReadableNativeMap (9aac13d by @rshest)

iOS specific

• Give precedence to textContentType property for backwards compat as mentioned in #36229 (comment) (c0abff11b6 by @lunaleaps)
• Blob data is no longer prematurely deallocated when using blob.slice (36cc71ab36 by @awinograd)

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion.

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.72.0-RC.0

How To Test

Generate a new project with the standard command:

npx react-native@latest init RN0720RC0 --version 0.72.0-rc.0

---

• You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in the working group.

• To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

• See changes from this release in the changelog PR

---

Help us testing 🧪

Let us know how it went by posting a comment in the working group discussion! Please specify with system you tried it on (ex. macos, windows).

Bonus points: It would be even better if you could swap things around: instead of using a fresh new app, use a more complex one - or use a different library that is already leveraging the new architecture!

0.71.4

Changed

• Make FlatList permissive of ArrayLike data (c03de97fb4 by @NickGerleman)
• Bumping RNGP to ^0.71.16 (3df4a79c3d by @kelset)
• Update CLI to 10.2.0, Metro to 0.73.8 (20a6fbd373 by @robhogan) - contains:
  • fix: Source maps may have invalid entries when using Terser minification. (metro/#928)
  • fix: Mitigate potential source map mismatches with concurrent transformations due to terser#1341. (metro/#929)
• Bump Hermes Version (291cc0af10) - contains:
  • use ConsecutiveStringStorage to dedup serialized literals (62d58e)
  • Remove register stack size override in hermes.cpp (6146eb)
  • fix: specify currency in locale identifier when formatting currency plural (21f15c)
  • Increase default max stack size (ee2588)
  • Refactor HBC test helper (31fdcf)

Android specific

• Expose rrc_root via prefab. (3418f65d88 by @tomekzaw)

Fixed

• Fix touchable hitSlop type (23607aea68 by @bigcupcoffee)
• Fix TouchableOpacity componentDidUpdate causing an excessive number of pending callbacks (8b1f6e09c1 by @gabrieldonadel)

Android specific

• ENTRY_FILE should resolve relative paths from root (6dde1dc7cb by @cortinico)
• Better Monorepo support for New Architecture (0487108461 by @cortinico)

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion.

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.71.3

Changed

• Bump package versions (4b84888a90 by @cipolleschi), (60f0a71060 by @cipolleschi), (a3f205a27b by @cipolleschi):
  • react-native-codegen to 0.71.5
  • react-native-gradle-plugin to 0.71.15

Fixed

• (codegen) Add missing C++ include for prop conversion of complex array type (92fc32aa by @rshest)

Android specific

• Fixed jscexecutor crash on Android which is caused from NDK incompatibility (a232decbb1 by @Kudo)
• Used relative paths for gradle commands (bb02ccf13f by @shivenmian)

iOS specific

• fix pod install --project-directory=... (ad1ddc241a by @tido64)

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion.

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.71.2

Added

• Added AlertOptions argument to the type definition for Alert.prompt to bring it into parity with the js code. (305ca337c0 by @paulmand3l)
• Added missing accessibilityLabelledBy TypeScript type (e162b07982 by @DimitarNestorov)
• Added missing accessibilityLanguage TypeScript type (71c4f57baf by @DimitarNestorov)

Changed

• Bump react-native-gradle-plugin to ^0.71.14 in core, @react-native-community/eslint-config to ^3.2.0 in starting template (785bc8d97b by @kelset)

Fixed

• Add TextInput's inputMode TypeScript types (fac7859863 by @eps1lon)
• Fix crash by conditional value of aspectRatio style value (a8166bd75b by @mym0404)
• Fix TurboModuleRegistry TS type (c289442848 by @janicduplessis)
• Fix invariant violation when nesting VirtualizedList inside ListEmptyComponent (1fef376812 by @NickGerleman)

Android specific

• [RNGP] Properly set the jsRootDir default value (c0004092f9 by @cortinico)
• Do not use WindowInsetsCompat for Keyboard Events (32f54877ff by @NickGerleman)
• Mitigation for Samsung TextInput Hangs (4650ef3 by @NickGerleman)

iOS specific

• Add Back dynamic framework support for the Old Architecture with Hermes (b3040ec624 by @cipolleschi)
• Add Back dynamic framework support for the old architecture (da270d038c by @cipolleschi)

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion.

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.70.7

Fixes

Android Specific

• Mitigation for Samsung TextInput Hangs (be69c8b5a7 by @NickGerleman)

iOS Specific

• Fix the potential race condition when dismissing and presenting modal (279fb52e03 by @wood1986)

Added

Android

• Add POST_NOTIFICATIONS and deprecate POST_NOTIFICATION (b5280bbc93 by @dcangulo)

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.69.8

This version is a patch release with a mitigation solution for the Android issue on Samsung devices.

Please let us know in the issue if this new version addresses the problem for you.

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion.

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.68.6

🚨 IMPORTANT: This is an exceptional release on an unsupported version. We recommend you upgrade to one of the supported versions, listed here.

Hotfix

This version is a patch release with a mitigation solution for the Android issue on Samsung devices.

Please let us know in the issue if this new version addresses the problem for you.

---

To help you upgrade to new versions, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.71.1

Added

Android specific

• Add jsinspector to the prefab target (a80cf96fc8 by @Kudo)

iOS specific

• Add initialProps property to RCTAppDelegate (b314e6f147 by @jblarriviere)

Changed

• Bump CLI to 10.1.3 (b868970037 by @kelset)
• Bump RNGP to 0.71.13 (416463c406 by @cipolleschi)

Fixed

• Fix(cli,metro,babel): bump cli and metro and babel to fix Windows+Metro issue (df7c92ff4c by @kelset)

Android specific

• Fix ReactRootView crash when root view window insets are null (4cdc2c48e8 by @enahum)
• Fix for resources not correctly bundlded on release appbundles (60b9d8c2b9 by @cortinico)
• RNGP - Honor the --active-arch-only when configuring the NDK (470f79b617 by @cortinico)
• Fixed typo in template build.gradle (38e35df47c by @Titozzz)

iOS specific

• Exclude react-native-flipper when NO_FLIPPER=1 to prevent iOS build fail (f47b5b8b5d by @retyui)
• Fix RCTAlertController not showing when using SceneDelegate on iOS 13.0+. (0c53420a7a)
• Handle Null Exception to Validate input in RCTAlertController and in RCTDevLoadingView (79e603c5ab by @admirsaheta)
• Fixed the potential race condition when dismissing and presentating modal (e948c79bda by @wood1986)
• Fix build errors when inheriting RCTAppDelegate in Swift modules (5eb25d2186 by @Kudo)
• OnSelectionChange() is fired before onChange() on multiline TextInput (64475aeb3b by @s77rt)
• Build: remove deprecated File.exists() method from Hermes podspec. (38e5fa6a96 by @kelset)

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.

0.71.0

0.71 stable is out!
This release includes over 1000 commits from 70+ contributors! Thank you to all our contributors new and old!

See the highlights of the release in our release blog post.

---

⚠️ Git Bash users on Windows might experience "Unable to resolve" red boxes, because of an issue with Metro (silently fails without discovering any files). It will be fixed in 0.71.1 next week, in the meantime you can set resolver.useWatchman: false in metro.config.js.

---

You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in this discussion

---

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

---

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.