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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2026

React Native 0.85 contains over 604 commits from 58 contributors. Special thanks to Zeya Peng, Bartłomiej Błoniarz, Dawid Małecki, Vitali Zaidman, Moti Zilberman, Phil Pluckthun, and the community! reactnative.dev/blog/2026/0...

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React Native 0.85 - New Animation Backend, TextInput Selection Data, New Jest Preset Package · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.85!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2026

Other changes - Dropped support for EOL Node.js versions - StyleSheet.absoluteFillObject removed (use StyleSheet.absoluteFill) - Metro bumped to ^0.84.0 - TextInput onChange now includes selection data

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2026

Jest preset moved to new package The Jest preset has been extracted to @react-native/jest-preset, reducing core package size. Update your jest.config.js: preset: '@react-native/jest-preset'

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2026

Metro TLS support The Metro dev server now accepts a TLS configuration, enabling HTTPS and WSS during development — useful for testing APIs that enforce secure connections. Configure in metro.config.js with cert, key, and ca.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2026

React Native DevTools improvements - Multiple CDP connections — connect DevTools, VS Code, and AI agents simultaneously - Native tabs on macOS — system-level tab handling for power users - Request payload previews restored on Android

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2026

New Animation Backend Built with Software Mansion, this new internal engine powers Animated and Reanimated. You can now animate layout props with native driver in Animated — the limitation stated in the docs no longer applies. Opt in via ReactNativeFeatureFlags.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/04/2026

React Native 0.85 is now available! This release includes the New Animation Backend, selection data in TextInput onChange events, Metro TLS support, and moves the Jest preset to a dedicated package. reactnative.dev/blog/2026/0...

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React Native 0.85 - New Animation Backend, TextInput Selection Data, New Jest Preset Package · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.85!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 11/02/2026

React Native 0.84 contains over 650 commits from 95 contributors. We want to thank our partners and the community for your contributions in this release! You can find the complete changelog here: reactnative.dev/blog/2026/0...

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React Native 0.84 - Hermes V1 by Default · React Native

Today we're excited to release React Native 0.84!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 11/02/2026

Other improvements - Node.js 22 minimum - ESLint v9 Flat Config support - Additional image formats (HEIC/HEIF) - Keyboard events on Android - URL API improvements - Accessibility enhancements

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 11/02/2026

React 19.2.3 This release syncs React 19.2.3 into React Native, including the latest fixes and improvements from the React team.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 11/02/2026

Legacy Architecture removal continues Building on 0.82's work to make the New Architecture the only runtime option, React Native 0.84 removes more Legacy Architecture code from both iOS and Android — reducing build time and app size.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 11/02/2026

Precompiled binaries on iOS by default React Native 0.84 now ships precompiled binaries on iOS by default. No more compiling React Native core from source on every clean build. The precompiled .xcframework binaries are automatically downloaded during pod install.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 11/02/2026

Hermes V1 as default Hermes V1 is now the default JavaScript engine on both iOS and Android, bringing improved execution speed and reduced memory usage. No migration required — if you're already using Hermes (the default since 0.70), you'll automatically get Hermes V1.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 11/02/2026

React Native 0.84 is now available! This release makes Hermes V1 the default JavaScript engine and ships precompiled iOS binaries by default — bringing significant performance improvements and faster build times to all React Native apps. reactnative.dev/blog/2026/0...

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React Native 0.84 - Hermes V1 by Default · React Native

Today we're excited to release React Native 0.84!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

React Native 0.83 contains over 594 commits from 56 contributors. We want to thank our partners and the community for your contributions in this release! You can find the complete changelog here: reactnative.dev/blog/2025/1...

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React Native 0.83 - React 19.2, New DevTools features, no breaking changes · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.83!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

No breaking changes 🎉 We're working hard to make React Native releases more predictable and easier to upgrade. React Native 0.83 is the first release with no user facing breaking changes. Upgrade from 0.82 → 0.83 with no changes to your app code.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

New iOS build options We now offer an experimental flag to compile out the Legacy Architecture, as well as to debug your precompiled binaries on iOS.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

Web Performance APIs as stable As introduced in 0.82, React Native now implements new performance APIs from Web, such as PerformanceObserver, performance.mark/measure, and high resolution timings — now enabled by default.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

Intersection Observers (Canary) Continuing our expansion of Web APIs in React Native, we've added IntersectionObserver, which allows you write code responding to layout intersections.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

New React Native DevTools features - Network inspection — now in core, and see where requests came from. - Performance tracing — deeply understand how your app is running. - New desktop app — a faster and better experience, still with zero setup.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

React 19.2 This release includes React 19.2, bringing the new <Activity> and useEffectEvent APIs to React Native. react.dev/blog/2025/1...

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React 19.2 – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 10/12/2025

React Native 0.83 is now available! This release includes React 19.2, new React Native DevTools features, and support for new Web APIs. And, it's the first React Native release with no user facing breaking changes. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/1...

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React Native 0.83 - React 19.2, New DevTools features, no breaking changes · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.83!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

Over the last decade, React Native has changed how the world builds apps. Declarative UI, Component-based architecture, Hot reload are now market standards among many other UI frameworks. We’re so looking forward to the next decade of React Native!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

You can now also write VR apps for Quest devices with React Native. Expo Go is now available on the Horizon Store so you can bring your apps to Horizon with the blink of an eye!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

We showcased how the Instagram and Facebook VR apps have been entirely written with React Native. This allowed us to reuse much code from web, while also allowing new capabilities such as parallax effects on Instagram.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

With React Native you can also reach more users on new emerging platforms. One clear example is Amazon's Vega OS, which is effectively a 'React Native Operating System'. You can now write apps for Vega OS with the tools you know and love. x.com/AmazonAppDe...

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

React Native is also supporting several emerging AI use cases such as @vercel V0, @MistralAI Le Chat or @Replit which are written in React Native. Those apps demonstrate how React Native can reduce the time to market for new AI use cases.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

Another great example of how React Native is helping achieve faster developer productivity and code sharing is HelloFresh. They’ve started migrating all of their mobile apps to React Native while keeping consistency across different brands. engineering.hellofresh.com/hellofreshs...

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HelloFresh’s Brownfield Leap: One App to Feed Them All!

HelloFresh’s PUMA unifies all mobile apps under a Brownfield React Native setup — boosting speed, consistency, and AI-driven innovation.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

React Native also supports large enterprise with code sharing, as they migrate from per platform frameworks to React Native. For example, Zalando is able to incrementally migrate their mobile app to React Native. engineering.zalando.com/posts/2025/...

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Zalando Engineering Blog - Accelerating Mobile App development at Zalando with Rendering Engine and React Native

We present how we combined our internal React-based UI composition framework Rendering Engine with React Native in a brownfield integration approach that enables us to gradually modernise our...

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

Apps built with React Native are also Award Winning. Last year we saw several apps built with React Native reaching the top of app stores such as: - Rise (Apple Design Awards Finalist) - Runna (App Store Best App Finalist) - Partiful (Google Play Best App 2024)

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

The React Native ecosystem is stronger than ever! 2,000+ libraries on reactnative.directory 2,700+ unique contributors

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

This year we also moved to shipping 6 releases a year, allowing you to get new features and bug fixes more frequently than ever.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

Folks are downloading react-native on npm over 4 million times a week, that 100% growth from last React Conf!

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 09/10/2025

Today we also want to celebrate React Native turning 10! What started as a small hackathon project is now used by millions of developers around the globe.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

If you missed the keynote, rewatch the full thing from the start of the Day 2 livestream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9O...

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React Conf 2025 Day 2

React Conf 2025 Day 2Live from Henderson, Nevada, USA. October 8 2025

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

And, coming later in React Native 0.83, you'll be able to profile and understand your app more intuitively, with native support for the Performance panel and Network panel in React Native DevTools.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

4/ Web Performance APIs and New Tooling It's easier than ever to understand your app's performance thanks to newly added Performance APIs from the web. These provide new runtime profiling capabilities, and work in both development and production builds.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

3/ DOM APIs React Native is also aligning more and more with the Web! Starting with 0.82, we've added support for imperative DOM APIs to inspect the tree as you would do on the Web. reactnative.dev/docs/elemen...

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Element nodes · React Native

Element nodes represent native components in the native view tree (similar to Element nodes on Web).

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

2/ Hermes V1 Today we also announced Hermes V1, the next evolution of our JavaScript Engine! Hermes V1 shows a 60% avg improvement on synthetic benchmarks, includes improved modern JS support, and ships today in 0.82 as experimental.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

Removing the Legacy Architecture comes with clear benefits: - Smaller app bundles, up to 1Mb reduction - Faster from-source builds (from 300s to 140s on iOS) - Simpler mental model If you haven't enabled New Architecture yet, we recommend upgrading to 0.81, enabling, then moving to 0.82.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

What we just announced at React Conf 1/ The New Architecture is now the ONLY supported Architecture for React Native. Starting with v0.82, you won't be able to opt-out from New Architecture anymore.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

A huge thank you to the 868 contributors and over 93 commits that made React Native 0.81 possible! Special shout-outs to Dawid Małecki @jpiasecki.com @woldri.ch Riccardo Cipolleschi @rubennorte.bsky.social @tomekzaw.bsky.social for their significant contributions. 🙏

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

With 0.82 now the latest stable version of React Native, 0.79.x moves to unsupported. For more information on React Native release scheduling and support status, check our revamped releases page. reactnative.dev/releases

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

Expo user? 0.82 is available in the expo@canary release, and will be available in next Expo SDK release. docs.expo.dev/versions/la...

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Reference

Expo is an open-source platform for making universal native apps for Android, iOS, and the web with JavaScript and React.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

Upgrade your project today using the React Native Upgrade Helper New project? npx @react-native-community/cli@latest init MyProject --version latest react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-hel...

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

React Native 0.82 ships with a performance improvement for local development on Android: debugOptimized. With debugOptimized, you'll now benefit from smoother animations and a snappier experience while you’re developing your app on Android.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

Performance APIs (Canary) We've added several Web Performance APIs to React Native, such as PerformanceObserver, performance.mark/measure, and high resolution timings. These provide new options for performance instrumentation in your app, e.g. runtime telemetry in production.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

DOM APIs Starting with 0.82, native components will provide DOM-like nodes via refs. This allows access to the UI tree with familiar DOM APIs, making React Native closer to the APIs you’re used to in browsers.

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React Native @reactnative.dev · 08/10/2025

React Native now ships React 19.1.1 This update brings improved reliability for features like useDeferredValue and startTransition within Suspense boundaries. This release also brings Owner Stacks support to React Native. github.com/facebook/re...

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Release 19.1.1 (July 28, 2025) · facebook/react

React Fixed Owner Stacks to work with ES2015 function.name semantics (#33680 by @hoxyq)

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