@react-native/asset-utils

Added

• C++: Add <React/FeatureFlags.h> umbrella header as the public entry point for react/featureflags (f970054a8a

• C++: Add <React/RendererBridging.h> umbrella header as the public entry point for react/renderer/bridging (5b680c5f9f

• C++: Add <React/Timing.h> umbrella header as the public entry point for react/timing (70f172d29f

• C++: Added missing mutex include in HostTarget.h (3f8f5c216a

• EventTarget: Enable the imperative EventTarget API (addEventListener, removeEventListener, dispatchEvent) on native view refs in canary (8480b86820

• Feature Flags: Add enableImageTransparentTintColor feature flag (c5bd054983

• deprecated

  JavaScript API: Deprecate 'react-native/Libraries/Core/InitializeCore'. Use 'react-native/setup-env' instead. (554baba159

• PlatformColor: Support a lazy raw color fallback for PlatformColor when native tokens fail to resolve (65008fcdd0

• React Native DevTools: Experimental performance screenshots support and Page.captureScreenshot is added to the EXPERIMENTAL channel (4be68ef785

• React Native DevTools: Support for inspecting WebSocket events in the Network panel is added to the CANARY channel (713ae6b1b9

• React Native DevTools: Users and agents can now capture app screenshots via the Page.captureScreenshot command (00efc0a440

• Text: Add object syntax for fontVariationSettings (376b99ff14

• TypeScript: Add isInstalled() and clearAllLogs() to the LogBox TypeScript declarations (a69badd468

• TypeScript: Add missing strictMode prop to FlatList TypeScript types (3e2403327c

• TypeScript: Add TypeScript declarations for requestIdleCallback and cancelIdleCallback (c086431a4b

• VirtualizedList: Add missing ListItemComponent type to VirtualizedList props (5306e9229c

Android specific

• Feature Flags: Add enableMountingCoordinatorPullModelAndroid feature flag (ece0efe837

• Network Inspection: Expose network event reporting to third-party networking stacks as an unstable API (83d0be8958

• Networking: Send app name and version as the default User-Agent header for network requests, matching iOS (04e50d540d by Calvin Liu)

• Renderer: Add inert Java plumbing (PullTransactionMountItem, FabricUIManager.onTransactionAvailable) for the pull model (6515647d94

• Renderer: Wire the pull-model mounting path in C++ behind enableMountingCoordinatorPullModelAndroid (9da1a01153

• Text: Add fontVariationSettings support for <Text> (19f7d144b9

• TextInput: Add fontVariationSettings support for TextInput (a688608090

• TurboModules: Add ArrayBuffer, the Java representation of a JS ArrayBuffer for TurboModules, with an explicit byte-ownership contract (5bb9639594 by Kamil Paradowski)

• TurboModules: Add ArrayBuffer support to Java TurboModules (5fb3ebce1a by Kamil Paradowski)

• TurboModules: Borrowed ArrayBuffer bytes are scoped to the synchronous call that received them. ArrayBuffer.bytes and ArrayBuffer.size throw IllegalStateException afterwards, and a ByteBuffer already obtained from bytes is unchecked and reads freed memory, so copy with ArrayBuffer.arrayBufferWithCopiedBytes to keep them (d84c13d511

iOS specific

• Text: Add fontVariationSettings support on iOS (8415753e21

• Assets: Use asset catalog for ios images (26769a00b2

• CocoaPods: Add a React-cxxstableapi dependency to third-party New Architecture pods so they can resolve React Native's C++ API guard headers (d3daf111e0

• Legacy Architecture: Allow consumers to opt into RCT_REMOVE_LEGACY_MODULE_INTEROP and RCT_REMOVE_LEGACY_COMPONENT_INTEROP from CocoaPods and SwiftPM. Both default to off and will become the default in a future release (b933d18177

• SceneDelegate: Add SceneDelegate lifecycle support (7bfe32fd33

• Styles: Print warning advice when using shadow* styles without providing a solid background color (eb4d3892ab

Changed

• Babel: Platform.OS and Platform.select(...) inlining in react-native/babel-preset now requires the inlinePlatform option in addition to platform (f63b2a1cb5

• Babel: Inline Platform.OS and Platform.select(...) for React Native Platform imports during the Babel preset, covering some cases that were previously left un-inlined. (40c06121a1

• Build: Add React Native Maven pull-through cache fallback for prebuilt artifacts. (3bfb277fec

• Events: Enabled Web-based event dispatching refactor (31d33ce91b

• Hermes: Bump Hermes to 260318099.0.3 (79024f7c59

• Hermes: Bump Hermes to 260318099.0.4 (993be7d6c6

• Hermes: Bump hermes-v1 to 260318099.0.1 (b113cf5864

• Legacy Architecture: Core components (ActivityIndicatorView, ModalHostView, PullToRefreshView, SafeAreaView, Switch) no longer report legacy RCT-prefixed names in their view configs (904812016f

• Metro: Bump Metro to 0.87.0 (fe511aba7c

• Metro: Bump the minimum Metro version to 0.87.1, so upgrading projects resolve the same Metro as freshly created ones (f2439a83cf

• React Native DevTools: When using the fallback flow for launching DevTools (desktop app fails to launch), Microsoft Edge will not be attempted. DevTools will open as a standard window in the default browser. (9efcdfc2b4

• React: Sync React 19.3.0 into React Native (b0b71421c1

• Runtime: RuntimeScheduler now clears pending tasks and rendering updates when a task throws (14184ec643

• Runtime: Async CallInvoker work is now buffered alongside callable module calls, so it no longer runs before the JS bundle has finished evaluating (3ca6ea3eca

• Styles: Remove experimental_ prefix from backgroundSize, backgroundPosition and backgroundRepeat (7844386bbd

• TypeScript: Allow module augmentation to extend generated props and style types (447ccd1ddb

• UIManager: UIManager::startSurface and UIManager::setSurfaceProps now take moduleName and props by value (85a81818c6

Android specific

• Dev Server: Removed FileIoHandler packager message handlers (e3598fac12

• Image: ImageProps make tintColor an std::optional to support color transparent (0) with props 2.0 (f535c97904

• deprecated

  New Architecture: Deprecate fabricEnabled on ReactFragment (c7d62a125c

iOS specific

• Build: Prebuilt artifacts: ReactNativeHeaders is pure-RN; third-party deps headers ship in the new ReactNativeDependenciesHeaders.xcframework sidecar (and the ReactNativeDependencies pod), published standalone to Maven (6aa147f6c9

• CocoaPods: Cache Maven repository requests (artifact existence probes, nightly metadata) during pod install to avoid re-issuing identical requests on every podspec evaluation (88feed55c0

• Dev Server: Declare RCTBundleURLProviderAllowPackagerServerAccess unconditionally (no-op when packager support is compiled out) (54656471a5

• Dev Server: Make iOS preserve dev bundle as a temp file on par with Android implementation (e2a4c68449

• Legacy Architecture: Compile out RCTGetModuleClasses/RCTRegisterModule and skip static module registration when both RCT_REMOVE_LEGACY_MODULE_INTEROP and RCT_REMOVE_LEGACY_COMPONENT_INTEROP are defined (5d62ca4296

• RNTester: Update RNTester and HelloWorld for SceneDelegate lifecycle behavior (609bdddabf

• StatusBar: Downgrade RCTStatusBarManager error to a warning when UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance is YES (9e71c443ac

• SwiftPM: Download SwiftPM prebuilt artifacts from the React Native Maven mirror first, with Maven Central as fallback (c2dac6abcc

• TextInput: Adds localization for Text Input default return key types (507023622b

Deprecated

Android specific

• deprecated

  InputAccessoryView: Deprecate InputAccessoryView (102fde7b6b

Fixed

• Accessibility: Fix accessibility list role conversion in C++. (aa96fa64d1

• Animated: addListener fires again for natively driven Animated values derived with add/subtract/multiply/divide/modulo/diffClamp/interpolate (ce621bbd5b

• Animated: Add ReactRevisionMerge source to the AnimationBackendCommitHook (ca53751780 by Bartlomiej Bloniarz)

• Animated: Perform AnimationEndSync commits on the React revision (7d855222cd

• Babel: Apply normal preset defaults when invoked without a Babel API or options object. (9ad8c830bd

• Babel: Detect trivia-separated React.createClass calls in optimized preset configuration. (619c8aed24

• Babel: Inline the last duplicate key from static Platform.select object literals. (bbdeb7dc1d

• Babel: Keep private class transforms enabled for profiles that lower classes. (0c0e9f0840

• Blob: Retain Blob reference in FileReader during pending native reads to prevent premature deallocation by BlobCollector (568eaa6b69 by heecheolman)

• C++: Fixed MSVC compilation of NativeDOM.cpp by removing backticks (e979b0ef8d

• Codegen: Codegen no longer hangs on type aliases that shadow CodegenTypes member names (42be7452d5

• Codegen: pass the target platform when generating schemas so platform-specific sources (e.g. NativeModule.ios.ts) resolve correctly (f46ace878a

• Codegen: React-native-codegen build.sh on AppleVirtIOFS volumes (27b5f761b1

• Codegen: Run native component codegen when Flow type arguments are separated by trivia. (0d64c9a13a

• DeviceInfo: Refresh DeviceInfo constants on each read (9d10e39d32

• DOM API: Resolve native EventTarget names that overlap Object prototype properties. (621ced78e9

• EventEmitter: Support EventEmitter event names that overlap Object prototype properties. (790289c1d6

• FileReader: Fire loadstart, throw InvalidStateError on overlapping reads, and expose FileReader.error as a DOMException. (544141efab

• FileReader: Keep FileReader in the correct state after aborting a read. (e92816c5a5

• Gradients: Fix radial-gradient at <position> being ignored (and corrupting the size) when it follows an explicit size (66f27eb93e

• Gradients: Reject percentage radii for circle radial gradients, matching web behavior (5821fcaf5d

• Image: Preserve Image source headers when using crossOrigin or referrerPolicy (08c7781e5a

• IntersectionObserver: Sort IntersectionObserver threshold arrays numerically. (ee32dfc8b9

• JavaScript API: Additional Props/Style types are now defined as interface, fixing compatibility with certain DefinitelyTyped packages (593ae0258d

• JavaScript API: Fix requestIdleCallback timeout option being ignored (0a1a06c5ea

• Networking: Fix XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader to append duplicate headers per spec (58bf844967

• Networking: Preserve buffered and empty Cxx WebSocket frames and serialize writes. (92cd588a5c

• Performance: Round instead of truncate when converting a DOMHighResTimeStamp back to nanoseconds, so HighResTimeStamp and HighResDuration round trips are exact (c467843ed0

• ScrollView: Fix maintainVisibleContentPosition with rapid data updates (#53542) (5cb65244dc

• Styles: Fix transformOrigin string parsing for decimal percentage and pixel values. (0a60ec9dea

• Styles: Preserve negative values in transformOrigin strings. (4501979c1a

• StyleSheet: Use cached results for already normalised colors (092734772a

• Text: Fix Text truncation when string contains NULL character \u0000 (#24129) (5906cfb060

• Text: Prevent Text from mutating the accessibilityState prop (c300f84f2c

• TextInput: blur focused input before unregistering it on unmount, fixing the Android soft keyboard staying open after navigating away from a focused input (d13d2b0a5f

• TurboModules: Revert the RCTArrayBuffer codegen change, restoring NSMutableData * for ObjC TurboModule methods that take or return an ArrayBuffer. 0.88 is a non-breaking release, and the change stopped modules that adopted ObjC ArrayBuffer support in 0.87 from compiling (639cdedb50, 19a3184981

• TurboModules: Revert the rejection of ArrayBuffer as a TurboModule EventEmitter payload. C++ TurboModules could declare EventEmitter<ArrayBuffer> in 0.87 and it generated working code, so rejecting it at codegen time broke those builds (070af03ab3

• TurboModules: TurboModule event emitters no longer throw when an event is emitted before the emitter callback is installed (4bf5575490

• TypeScript: Add missing types for the public AssetRegistry API (b8ec87e457

• TypeScript: Fix TS2883 when building declaration files for libraries that use codegenNativeComponent due to unreachable NativeComponentType<T> (391723e869

• TypeScript: Restore the .js fallback for legacy deep imports of untyped modules, so react-native/Libraries/* specifiers resolve again under the react-native-legacy-deep-imports condition (579212e15c

• VirtualizedList: Fix the Metro package-exports warning caused by react-native/virtualized-lists importing an unexported React Native subpath (a506ed66cc

• VirtualizedList: Ignore stale viewability updates while enforcing minimum view time (1c4a46f4e3

• VirtualizedList: Invalidate list content length when orientation changes. (e59a1d252c

• VirtualizedList: Prevent zero-sized lists from reporting viewable items (c057b1fa01

Android specific

• Accessibility: Fix crash when accessibilityRole="tabbar" is used on Android (a4733b1ca1

• Accessibility: Properly re-enable a view after accessibilityState.disabled resets from true, which left Pressable partly untappable (357b6998c4

• Build: Export jserrorhandler headers in the reactnative prefab so external consumers of cxxreact/ErrorUtils.h can build. (f2a6db9fce

• Dev Menu: Persist Change Bundle Location debug server host changes (d2ac190411

• Dev Server: Stop dev server WebSockets from throttling bundle downloads and other dev server requests (cc5dd59742

• Gradle: Use the JVM temp dir instead of a hardcoded /tmp for the build-from-source container project dirs, fixing Gradle configuration on Windows (908872a68e

• i18n: Detect RTL from the active locale instead of an arbitrary installed one (e46189e1e1

• deprecated

  Image: Deprecate the String? overloads of ReactImageManager#setDefaultSource and ReactImageManager#setLoadingIndicatorSource (3a95e0e93c

• Image: Fix Image.getSize() and Image.getSizeWithHeaders() rejecting data: URIs (8cfde6d083 by Cole Huntley)

• Image: Fix crash when setting a percentage borderRadius on Image (f2a250ad89

• Renderer: Bump androidx.collection to 1.4.4 to fix view registry entries getting lost in SurfaceMountingManager (d6a5f159c6

• Renderer: Fix IllegalStateException in SurfaceMountingManager.removeViewAt (3f553d76bc

• Renderer: Pull model mounting is now deferred until the root attaches (2f5a8332cf by Bartlomiej Bloniarz)

• Runtime: Prevent a startup crash when the WindowMetrics API is missing on an inconsistent Android runtime (3f9cc72309

• Runtime: Report a fatal JS error instead of aborting the process when reading the error's extra data fails (41b375eb04 by generatedunixname1608173377072046)

• Styles: Fix crashes when outlineColor is provided as a numeric color value (53b933feca by HURRAEY)

• Text: Fix Text with adjustsFontSizeToFit being clipped when container height decreases dynamically (63064687e2

• Text: Keep inline views inside Text from shrinking with Android system font scale (551d12a787

• TextInput: Ellipsize long single-line TextInput placeholders to match iOS (7f18ad0f84

• TextInput: Show the soft keyboard when a long-press starts text selection in TextInput (9195e52706

• View: Resetting border widths no longer clips children in rounded overflow-hidden views. (146aaac7ee

• ViewManagers: Fix Double prop defaults being rounded to float precision in generated ViewManager delegates (2c4278d83b

• ViewManagers: Fix RuntimeException: Unrecognized type: class com.facebook.yoga.YogaValue when a ViewManager implements a DimensionValue prop with ReactProp (091ac613ce

• ViewManagers: Fix RuntimeException: Unrecognized type: class java.lang.Float when a ViewManager implements a nullable float prop (WithDefault<Float, null>) with ReactProp (8d23b14da6

• VirtualizedList: Fix ListMetricsAggregator cell metrics not clearing on orientation change and guard against divide-by-zero (3b90423076

iOS specific

• Accessibility: Views with checkbox, radio, combobox, dropdownlist, menuitem, spinbutton, tab, option, searchbox, slider and treeitem roles are now reachable via Full Keyboard Access (05b97de823

• Accessibility: VoiceOver text readout when changing elements asynchronously (082d787a1e

• Appearance: RCTAppearance.setColorScheme() no longer crashes CarPlay apps when connectedScenes contains a non-UIWindowScene (00a5aa9223

• Assets: Asset catalog imagesets paired wrong files for assets with non-standard scales (74b984729b

• Blob: Fix intermittent native crash (CoreServices/UTType XPC) in RCTBlobManager when deriving blob names for network responses (671705dfb1

• Codegen: Codegen now discovers third-party component libraries without an iOS configuration. (917d97eb12

• Codegen: Fixed intermittent "Cycle in dependencies between targets 'ReactCodegen' and ..." Xcode build error that occurred on incremental iOS builds when an app's codegenConfig.jsSrcsDir contained no Native*/*NativeComponent spec files. (0b0eb8d012

• Codegen: No longer crawls node_modules or follows symlinks when discovering components (39751d864d

• Dev Server: Create the RCTDevSettings packager connection in initWithDataSource so instances built that way also receive packager commands (e71fc4e32f

• DeviceInfo: Refresh DeviceInfo constants after interface dimension changes (b743a8a35b

• Hermes: Set always_out_of_date on hermes-engine's Replace Hermes script phase (d89c432659

• i18n: Align text to the right by default in RTL when textAlign is not set, matching Android (1b92b02f99

• Image: aria-* state props are no longer ignored when accessibilityState is also present (c3caea9b5e

• LogBox: Prevent RedBox auto-retry from reloading while backgrounded (b587763f40

• PushNotificationIOS: Fix main-thread watchdog hang in PushNotificationIOS.setApplicationIconBadgeNumber (6f6efed3e7

• ReactHost: Forward host:didInitializeRuntime: callback to user delegate in RCTReactNativeFactory (98dc7d6423

• Renderer: Log missing native component registrations on iOS and Android (ef28a2c9d5

• Renderer: Report a RCTViewComponentView child-index mismatch instead of raising NSRangeException while formatting the assert message (1291d7ce8e

• Renderer: Reset EmptyLayoutMetrics in RCTViewComponentView prepareForRecycle so recycled views clear UIView.hidden (711a9a5e07

• Runtime: Avoid an unhandled exception in bridgeless ReactInstance::registerSegment when an on-demand JS segment file is missing from the cache at lazy-load time (fff4994af8 by generatedunixname1608173377072046)

• ScrollView: Prevent recycled ScrollViews from retaining automatic keyboard inset behavior. (e0aa7a8b0a

• ScrollView: Programmatic (non-user-initiated) scrolls no longer cancel active touches in enclosing scroll views (06eb1fefab

• Styles: Render outlineStyle: 'dotted' and 'dashed' on views without border radii (9f31d5ae9f

• SwiftPM: Generated manifests derive their iOS platform floor from the app's IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET instead of hardcoding iOS 15, so dependencies with a higher minimum (e.g. Expo, 16.4) can be autolinked (92564f33fd

• SwiftPM: Read the SwiftPM name from the podspec and store it in package.json when scaffolding (1cfc5f29a0

• SwiftPM: Run generated build scripts under bash instead of /bin/sh, so they don't break on a host where /bin/sh isn't bash (25f48bd72f

• SwiftPM: Stop autolinking from recreating library package roots on every sync, which broke Xcode builds of apps using libraries that ship their own Package.swift (97cc934dc7

• SwiftPM: stop baking an absolute, machine-specific HERMES_CLI_PATH into the app's pbxproj; resolve hermesc at build time instead (fcbeda1109

• Switch: Restore paperComponentName: 'RCTSwitch' to fix testing-library/react-native queries (38fd9d57df

• Text: Correctly classify extralight fonts as UIFontWeightUltraLight in RCTGetFontWeight (3b5d0a6526

• Text: Prevent the final line or trailing glyph of text from being clipped due to pixel-grid rounding precision loss (5e40a1771e

• TextInput: Preserve TextInput selection color when changing multiline. (56c284e152

• TextInput: update the keyboard when keyboardType/returnKeyType change while the input is focused (new architecture parity with the legacy architecture) (0f1bdddfb3

• Touch Handling: Fix debug-only crash in RCTSurfaceTouchHandler from UITextView text-selection gestures on iOS 17+ (433e79d2f4

• TurboModules: Include the module and method name in exceptions rethrown from async and void TurboModule calls (253a84c8d1

• TurboModules: Pass a top-level JS null TurboModule argument to Objective-C as nil instead of NSNull when enableModuleArgumentNSNullConversionIOS is enabled (ea291d7422

Security

• security

  Dependencies: Fix: upgrade shell-quote to 1.8.4 (CVE-2026-9277) (fea5e11d9c

Hermes V1 dSYMS:

• security

  Debug

ReactNativeDependencies dSYMs:

• security

  Debug

ReactNative Core dSYMs:

• security

  Debug

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Added

iOS specific

• SwiftPM: Added hard fail and clear error message when an autolinking plugin host is referenced as a dependency (90a539c92d

Changed

• Hermes: Bump hermes-v1 to 250829098.0.17 (861e2d0bde

Fixed

• Animated: Animated.Value.addListener() types its callback payload as {value: number} rather than any (3eab03df4c

• Animated: Animated.event() is typed as an event handler rather than any (3eb330a365

iOS specific

• Cocoapods: Keep the quotes on header search paths containing spaces in add_rn_third_party_dependencies (71c6bfbfdc

• SwiftPM: Reject colliding or invalid spm.modules names instead of silently dropping a module from the build (39cd1dfc4c

• SwiftPM: Resolve Swift manifest naming collisions (962aeec5e5

• SwiftPM: Fixed not reading spm.name from react-native.config.js when scaffolding the Swift manifest (482acee824

• SwiftPM: Removed unused field spm.modules.publicHeaderFiles from react-native.config.js's spm section (5168f5f831 by Christian Falch)

• SwiftPM: SwiftPM pipeline now reads react-native.config.js with default exports correctly (ed76640ba6

• SwiftPM: Created constants for internal SwiftPM packages so that we can create guards to avoid collisions (d36aa4961d

• SwiftPM: Set SWIFT_ACTIVE_COMPILATION_CONDITIONS = DEBUG when injecting SPM (4433cdbe62

• SwiftPM: Recover React-Core-prebuilt configuration swaps that were interrupted before the marker was updated (a772a7ca16

• SwiftPM: Fix Hermes runtime/compiler version mismatch causing "Wrong bytecode version" crashes in SwiftPM Release builds (ead93778a1

Hermes V1 dSYMS:

• Debug

ReactNativeDependencies dSYMs:

• Debug

ReactNative Core dSYMs:

• Debug

You can file issues or pick requests against this release here.

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the Upgrade Helper ⚛️.

View the whole changelog in the CHANGELOG.md file.

Hermes V1 dSYMS:

• Debug

ReactNativeDependencies dSYMs:

• Debug

ReactNative Core dSYMs:

• Debug

You can file issues or pick requests against this release here.

To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the Upgrade Helper ⚛️.

View the whole changelog in the CHANGELOG.md file.