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#React Native

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  1. React Native 0.85: a shared animation backend, layout props on the native driver and a new Jest presetReact Native 0.85 shipped on April 7, 2026 with an experimental animation backend that Animated and Reanimated share, native-driver support for width and height, Metro TLS, a separate @react-native/jest-preset package and the removal of StyleSheet.absoluteFillObject.
  2. React Native on Meta Quest: Expo Go on the headset, one config plugin, no Google servicesMeta and Callstack published the setup for React Native on Meta Quest on February 24, 2026. Horizon OS is Android without Google Mobile Services, Expo Go runs on the headset, and the expo-horizon-core plugin adds a Quest build flavor next to your phone build.
  3. React Native 0.84 makes Hermes V1 the default and stops compiling iOS core from sourceReact Native 0.84 shipped on February 11, 2026 with Hermes V1 on iOS and Android, precompiled iOS core binaries, Legacy Architecture code stripped from iOS builds and a Node.js 22.11 minimum. The post also lists the opt-out switches and a short set of breaking changes.
  4. React Native 0.83: React 19.2, a DevTools desktop app and no breaking changesReact Native 0.83 shipped on December 10, 2025 as the first release with no user-facing breaking changes. It brings React 19.2, network and performance panels in a new DevTools desktop app, stable Web Performance APIs and a flag that cut a test app's iOS build from 73 to 58 seconds.
  5. React Native 0.82 runs only on the New ArchitectureReact Native 0.82 shipped on October 8, 2025 as the first release with no Legacy Architecture switch. It also brings opt-in Hermes V1, React 19.1.1, DOM-style node APIs on refs and a debugOptimized Android build that runs at about 60 FPS instead of 20.
  6. React Native 0.81: Android 16 forces edge-to-edge, and iOS builds compile up to 10x fasterReact Native 0.81 shipped on August 12, 2025. It targets Android 16 by default, which removes the edge-to-edge opt-out and turns on predictive back, deprecates SafeAreaView, drops built-in JavaScriptCore and adds experimental precompiled iOS builds.

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