Kotlin Multiplatform v1.8.0-beta02 Release Notes & Developer Guide

v1.8.0-beta02 delivers substantial iOS text input improvements including Full Keyboard Access support, native gesture handling, and magnifier functionality for BasicTextField. This release addresses critical stability issues across platforms, particularly TextField crashes, iOS animation freezes, and text editing edge cases with RTL characters and transformations. Web and navigation modules also receive important fixes for touch gestures and routing behavior.

Highlights

• iOS text input now supports Full Keyboard Access and native tap/long-tap gestures in BasicTextField
• BasicTextField magnifier support added for iOS platform
• Fixed critical TextField crashes with trailing icons and selection dragging during editing
• iOS scrolling and overscroll animation freezes resolved, including pull-to-refresh scenarios
• Text editing fixes for RTL characters, diacritics, and OutputTransformation on iOS
• Web touch gesture handling improved for zoom and rotation detection
• Navigation fixes for JS targets with cleaner URL parameter encoding