React Native 0.80 is now available!. This release includes React 19.1, stability improvements to our JavaScript API, freezes the Legacy Architecture, and more.

React Native 0.80 contains over 1167 commits from 127 contributors. We want to thank our partners and the community for your contributions in this release!. You can find the complete changelog here:.

Refreshed New App Screen. We've moved the New App Screen into its own package and given it a fresh coat of paint. It's a simplified starting point, and now provides a better experience on larger screens.

Android - Smaller APK size thanks to IPO. React Native 0.80 ships with a significant size reduction for all Android apps, thanks to enabling Interprocedural Optimization on React Native and Hermes builds.

iOS prebuilts (experimental). We're experimenting with prebuilding some core React Native dependencies for iOS to reduce build times. Try it out by opting in and let us know what you think!.

Legacy Architecture Freezing & Warnings. As of 2 June, the Legacy Architecture is officially frozen, and you'll start seeing warnings for APIs that won't work in the New Architecture. Check out our guides to help you migrate your apps and libraries.

Improving our JavaScript API. We're making changes to improve and stabilize our public JavaScript API. Deep imports are now deprecated and will fire a warning, and we're introducing a new opt-in Strict TypeScript API.

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React Native 0.79 contains over 944 commits from 100 contributors. We want to thank our partners and the community for your contributions in React Native 0.79!. You can find the complete changelog here:.

Removal of Remote JS Debugging. React Native 0.79 removes legacy Remote JS Debugging. Switch to React Native DevTools + Expo DevTools Plugins for modern, reliable debugging with the New Architecture.

Metro Package Exports support by default. Metro now respects package.json exports and imports fields by default, with improved handling of import/require conditions. Let us know of any issues and use resolver.unstable_enablePackageExports = false in your Metro config to.

Swift-compatible Native Module registration. We've improved the registration mechanism for Native Modules on iOS. Starting from React Native 0.79, you only need to add 2 lines to package.json to register your Native Module. This works also with pure C++ modules and apps written.

JSC is moving to a community package. Starting with React Native 0.79, JavaScriptCore (JSC) is moving to `@react-native-community/javascriptcore`. This allows for more frequent updates and latest features, while reducing React Native's API surface. Don't worry — this won't affect.

Faster Android startup. The startup time of all Android apps has been improved by skipping the compression step for the JavaScript bundle. For the Discord mobile app, the Margelo team measured a 12% time-to-interactive (TTI) improvement, which made the app start 400ms faster on.

Faster Metro startup. Metro is >3x faster to cold start, with bigger speedups on larger projects - great news for monorepos and CI builds. This was achieved by deferring source hashing to only read files actually bundled, greatly reducing IO with negligible impact on build

React Native 0.79 is now available!. This release includes several performance improvements. Metro is now >3x faster to cold start! Android apps will also be faster thanks to changes to JS bundle compression.

React Native 0.78 contains over 509 commits from 87 contributors. We want to thank our partners and the community for your contributions in React Native 0.78!. You can find the complete changelog here:.

In 2025, we're also updating React Native's release schedule to ship more frequently. We're doing this to get new features to the community sooner, and make individual releases easier to upgrade to.