Today we are excited to release React Native 0.86!

This release includes comprehensive edge-to-edge support on Android 15+ and improvements in React Native DevTools.

Following 0.83, this is the second React Native release with no user-facing breaking changes, reflecting our continued commitment to making upgrades more predictable and seamless.

A New Home for React Native​

As part of this release, the React, React Native, Metro, Yoga and React Native Website repositories are moving from the facebook GitHub organization to the react organization. This move reflects the transition of React and React Native to the React Foundation, an independent foundation dedicated to the long-term stewardship of the React ecosystem.

GitHub will automatically redirect all existing URLs, issues and PRs to the new location, so no action is required on your part.

Highlights​

• Edge-to-Edge on Android
• React Native DevTools Improvements

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.85!

This release includes the New Animation Backend, moves the Jest preset to a dedicated package, and includes many other improvements and fixes.

Highlights​

• New Animation Backend
• React Native DevTools Improvements
• Metro TLS Support

Breaking Changes​

• Jest Preset Moved to New Package
• Dropped Support for EOL Node.js Versions
• StyleSheet.absoluteFillObject Removed
• Other Breaking Changes

React Native has always focused on helping developers reuse knowledge across platforms. What started with Android and iOS has steadily expanded to Apple TV, Windows, macOS, and even the web with react-strict-dom. In 2021, the Many Platform Vision post outlined a future where React Native could adapt to new devices and form factors without fragmenting the ecosystem.

At React Conf 2025, we took another step toward that vision by announcing official React Native support for Meta Quest devices. This post focuses on how to get started with React Native on Meta Quest, what works today, and how developers can build and ship VR apps using familiar tools and patterns.

Today we're excited to release React Native 0.84!

This release makes Hermes V1 the default JavaScript engine, bringing significant performance improvements to all React Native apps. We've also continued removing the Legacy Architecture on both iOS and Android, and are shipping precompiled iOS binaries by default.

Highlights​

• Hermes V1 as Default
• Precompiled Binaries on iOS by Default
• Legacy Architecture Components Removed
• Node.js 22 Minimum

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.83!

This release includes React 19.2, significant new features for React Native DevTools, and support for the Web Performance and Intersection Observer APIs (Canary). This is also the first React Native release with no user facing breaking changes.

Highlights​

• React 19.2
• New DevTools features
• Intersection Observers (Canary)
• Web Performance APIs as stable

Today we're excited to release React Native 0.82: the first React Native that runs entirely on the New Architecture.

This is a milestone release for React Native and we believe it's the start of a new era. In future versions we will be removing the remaining code from the Legacy Architecture to reduce install size and streamline the codebase.

In addition, 0.82 also ships with an experimental opt-in to a newer version of Hermes called Hermes V1. We’re also enabling several React features by updating the React version to 19.1.1, and shipping support for DOM Node APIs.

Highlights​

• New Architecture Only
• Experimental Hermes V1
• React 19.1.1
• DOM Node APIs

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.81!

This ships with support for Android 16 (API level 36) and includes a variety of other stability improvements and bugfixes, as well as experimental support for faster iOS builds using precompilation.

Highlights​

• Android 16 support
• SafeAreaView deprecation
• Community-maintained JavaScriptCore support
• Experimental Precompiled iOS builds

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