Today we are excited to release React Native 0.80!

This release brings the version of React we ship inside React Native to the latest stable available: 19.1.0.

We’re also shipping a series of stability improvements to our JS API: deep imports will now fire a warning and we’re offering a new opt-in Strict TypeScript API which offers types that are more accurate and safer to use.

Moreover, the Legacy Architecture of React Native is now officially frozen, and you’ll start seeing warnings for APIs that will stop working once we fully sunset the Legacy Architecture.

Highlights​

• JavaScript deep imports deprecation
• Legacy Architecture Freezing & Warnings
• React 19.1.0
• Experimental - React Native iOS dependencies are now prebuilt

In React Native 0.80, we're introducing two significant changes to React Native's JavaScript API — the deprecation of deep imports, and our new Strict TypeScript API. These are part of an ongoing effort to accurately define our API and offer dependable type safety to users and frameworks.

Quick takeaways:

• Deep imports deprecation: From 0.80, we're introducing deprecation warnings for deep imports from the react-native package.
• Opt-in Strict TypeScript API: We are moving to from-source TypeScript types and a new public API baseline under TypeScript. These enable stronger and more futureproof type accuracy, and will be a one-time breaking change. Opt in via compilerOptions in your project's tsconfig.json.
• We'll work with the community over time to ensure that these changes work for everyone, before enabling the Strict TypeScript API by default in a future React Native release.

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.79!

This release ships with performance improvements on various fronts, as well as several bugfixes. First, Metro is now faster to start thanks to deferred hashing, and has stable support for package exports. Startup time in Android will also be improved thanks to changes in the JS bundle compressions and much more.

Highlights​

• New Metro Features
• JSC moving to a Community Package
• iOS: Swift-Compatible Native Modules registration
• Android: Faster App Startup
• Removal of Remote JS Debugging

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.78!

This release ships React 19 in React Native and some other relevant features like native support for Android Vector drawables and better brownfield integration for iOS.

Highlights​

• React 19
• Towards smaller and faster releases
• Opt-in for JavaScript logs in Metro
• Added support for Android XML drawables
• ReactNativeFactory on iOS

Every year, the core contributors in the React Native Community get together with the React Native team to collaboratively shape the direction of this project.

Last year was no different—with small exception. We usually meet a day before React Universe Conf (formerly React Native EU) at Callstack HQ in Wrocław. In 2024, learning from past experiences, we hosted the Summit for two consecutive days, so that we can have more unstructured time together.

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.77!

This release ships several features: new styling capabilities such as support for display: contents, boxSizing, mixBlendMode, and outline-related properties to provide a more powerful layout options; Android 16KB page support to be compatible with the newer Android devices. We are also modernizing the community template by migrating it to Swift, while continuing to support and maintain compatibility with Objective-C for developers who prefer it.

React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm!

In the 0.76 release blog post, we shared a list of significant changes included in this version. In this post, we provide an overview of the New Architecture and how it shapes the future of React Native.

The New Architecture adds full support for modern React features, including Suspense, Transitions, automatic batching, and useLayoutEffect. The New Architecture also includes new Native Module and Native Component systems that let you write type-safe code with direct access to native interfaces without a bridge.

This release is the result of a ground-up rewrite of React Native we’ve been working on since 2018, and we’ve taken extra care to make the New Architecture a gradual migration for most apps. In 2021, we created the New Architecture Working Group to collaborate with the community on ensuring a smooth upgrade experience for the entire React ecosystem.

Most apps will be able to adopt React Native 0.76 with the same level of effort as any other release. The most popular React Native libraries already support the New Architecture. The New Architecture also includes an automatic interoperability layer to enable backward compatibility with libraries targeting the old architecture.

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.76!

This is a major milestone for React Native, as we’re enabling the New Architecture by default, and we’re introducing React Native DevTools. This has been the culmination of 6 years of hard work from our team, together with the support of our incredible community of developers.

Highlights​

• React Native New Architecture by default
• React Native DevTools
• Faster Metro resolution
• Box Shadow and Filter style props

Breaking Changes​

• Removed the dependency on the react-native-community/cli
• Android Apps are ~3.8Mb smaller thanks to Native Library merging
• Updates to Minimum iOS and Android SDK requirements

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.75!

This release ships several features, such as Yoga 3.1 with support for % values, several stabilization fixes for the New Architecture, and the introduction of the recommendation for users to use a React Native Framework.

Highlights​

• Yoga 3.1 and Layout Improvements
• New Architecture Stabilization
• Using Frameworks

Breaking Changes​

• Touchables in TypeScript can’t be used as types in Generic expressions anymore
• Last version supporting minSdk 23 and minIOSVersion 13.4
• Android: JSIModule has been deleted
• Android: PopUp Menu removed from core
• iOS: Finalized Push Notifications deprecation work
• Community CLI: Removal of ram-bundle and profile-hermes commands

At React Conf, we updated our guidance on the best tool to get started building React Native apps: a React Native framework - a toolbox with all the necessary APIs to let you build production-ready apps.

Using React Native frameworks, such as Expo, is now the recommended approach to create new apps.

In this blogpost we want to walk you through what they are in detail and what they mean for you as a React Native developer starting a new project.