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- Edge-to-edge fixes for Android 15+
- DevTools light/dark emulation via Emulation.setEmulatedMedia
- No user-facing breaking changes (upgrade-safe)
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- New Shared Animation Backend
- Jest preset moved to @react-native/jest-preset
- Metro dev server supports TLS
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- Official React Native support for Meta Quest
- Expo Go + expo-horizon-core enable fast iteration and proper Horizon config
- AOSP-based Horizon OS — avoid Google Play Services and adjust permissions
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- Hermes V1 is default
- Precompiled iOS binaries by default
- Node.js v22 minimum
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- React 19.2 (useEffectEvent, Activity API)
- DevTools: Network & Performance panels plus new desktop app
- No user-facing breaking changes; audit monorepo for React Server Components CVE
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- New Architecture is now the only architecture
- Experimental, opt-in Hermes V1 (build from source)
- React 19.1.1 + DOM-like Node APIs on refs
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- Targets Android 16 (API 36) by default
- Experimental precompiled iOS builds (up to 10× faster)
- Built-in JavaScriptCore removed — use the community package
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- React upgraded to 19.1.0
- Deep imports deprecated; opt-in Strict TypeScript API available
- Legacy Architecture frozen; DevTools warnings for incompatible APIs
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- Deep imports deprecated with warnings
- Opt-in Strict TypeScript API via tsconfig
- Generated types limited to react-native index
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- Metro: much faster startup with deferred hashing
- Android: uncompressed JS bundle for faster app startup
- Remote JS Debugging removed — use React Native DevTools
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- React 19 available in RN 0.78
- Android XML drawables supported
- New iOS RCTReactNativeFactory for brownfield
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- Nightlies and release cadence debated
- Web‑API RFC with incremental PoC proposed
- LeanCore 2.0 + Nitro Modules next steps
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- New CSS props for richer layouts (New Architecture only)
- Android 16KB page support + Android 15 edge-to-edge note
- Swift iOS template; react-native init deprecated
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- React Native 0.76 enables the New Architecture by default
- C++/JSI native modules: synchronous calls, lazy loading, and Codegen types
- Multithreaded renderer + standardized event loop for responsive concurrent UIs
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- New Architecture enabled by default
- Stable React Native DevTools (zero-config)
- Android native merge reduces app size ~3.8MB
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- Yoga 3.1 adds percentage values for gaps and translate
- Stabilized jsi::Runtime access and New Architecture bug fixes
- Template moved; react-native init deprecated — use frameworks (e.g. Expo)
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- Expo is the recommended community framework
- react-native init moved to community CLI
- Frameworks handle upgrades, builds, and dependency management
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- Yoga 3.0: web-aligned layout changes
- New Architecture: bridgeless by default; batched onLayout updates
- Yarn 3 default; Android min SDK bumped to API 23
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- Hermes captures console.log history
- Metro enables symlinks by default
- Experimental Bridgeless Mode released
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- Metro: symlinks & package-exports (beta)
- No redbox for invalid styles; clearer Hermes errors
- Package renames and removed core components; update deps