React Native Feb 19, 2025

v0.78.0

What's New

React Native v0.78.0 delivers significant infrastructure improvements with updated build tools (AGP 8.8.0, Gradle 8.12), enhanced text rendering on iOS including system font family support, and critical animation fixes. The release includes API cleanups on Android by making internal classes private and improving the DevTools integration, while introducing new capabilities like keyboard shortcut control on iPad and better console.table formatting for debugging.

Highlights

Breaking Changes

  • Codegen: Component array types and command array types now separated
  • DevTools: FuseboxClient.setClientMetadata CDP method removed, use ReactNativeApplication.enable instead
  • Android: FrescoBasedReactTextInlineImageViewManager visibility changed to internal
  • Android: pointerEvents API migration breaks Kotlin val usages
  • Android: GuardedResultAsyncTask abstract class deleted
  • Android: FabricViewStateManager deprecated class removed
  • Android: ComponentNameResolver removed from public API
  • Android: ReactCookieJarContainer made internal
  • iOS: Image load event size info changed from logical size to pixel

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