0.70.0

0.70 stable is out!

This release includes 493 commits with 88 contributors! Thank you to all our contributors new and old! See the highlights of the release in our release blog post.

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0.69.5

Changed

• Bump react-native-codegen to 0.69.2 (df3d52bfbf by @dmitryrykun)

Android specific

• Replaced reactnativeutilsjni with reactnativejni in the build process to reduce size (54a4fcbfdc by @SparshaSaha)

Fixed

• Codegen should ignore .d.ts files (0f0d52067c by @tido64)

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0.70.0-rc.4

Changed

• Upgrade RN CLI to v9.0.0, Metro to 0.72.1 (0c2fe96998 by @thymikee)
• Bump react-native-codegen to 0.70.4 (a22ceecc84 by @dmitryrykun)
• Hermes version bump for 0.70.0-RC4 (0b4b7774e2 by @dmitryrykun)

Android specific

• Update template to gitignore android/app/.cxx (542d43df9d by @leotm)

Fixed

• Codegen should ignore .d.ts files (0f0d52067c by @tido64)

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Help us testing 🧪

RC4 is going to be the last RC before 0.70.0 - unless blocking issues arise. To help us catch them, test it by running:

npx react-native init RN070RC4 --version 0.70.0-rc.4

And play around with the fresh app - let us know how it went by posting a comment in the working group discussion! Please specify with system you tried it on (ex. macos, windows).

Bonus points: It would be even better if you could swap things around: instead of using a fresh new app, use a more complex one!

0.70.0-rc.3

Changed

• Bump CLI to latest v9-alpha11 (7e580b97bf by @kelset)

Android specific

• Update the new app template to use CMake instead of Android.mk (dfd7f70eff by @cortinico)
• Refactored usage of kotlin plugin (be35c6dafb by @hurali97)
• Bump Gradle to 7.5.1 (7a911e0730 by @AlexanderEggers)
• Upgrade react-native-gradle-plugin to 0.70.2 (1518f838b7 by @dmitryrykun)

iOS specific

• Silence warning due to react-native internal details. (a4599225f5 by @cipolleschi)

Fixed

• Avoid full copy of large folly::dynamic objects in JSIExecutor#defaultTimeoutInvoker (521011d4cc by @christophpurrer)

Android specific

• Fix error of release builds with Hermes enabled for Windows users (7fcdb9d9d8 by @JoseLion)

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Help us testing 🧪

To test it, run:

npx react-native init RN070RC3 --version 0.70.0-rc.3

And play around with the fresh app - let us know how it went by posting a comment in the working group discussion! Please specify with system you tried it on (ex. macos, windows).

Bonus points: It would be even better if you could swap things around: instead of using a fresh new app, use a more complex one!

0.69.4

Changed

• Upgrade RN CLI to v8.0.4 (66c68c37ce by @thymikee)

Android specific

• Modified getDefaultJSExecutorFactory method (87cfd386cb by @KunalFarmah98)

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0.68.3

Changed

Android specific

• Let's not build reactnativeutilsjni shared library (af9225ec5f by @SparshaSaha)
• Modified getDefaultJSExecutorFactory method (87cfd386cb by @KunalFarmah98)

Fixed

• Use monotonic clock for performance.now() (114d31feee)

Android specific

• Logging a soft error when ReactRootView has an id other than -1 instead of crashing the app in hybrid apps (1ca2c24930 by @Kunal-Airtel2022)

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0.70.0-rc.2

To try it, run:

npx react-native init RN070RC2 --version 0.70.0-rc.2

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Help us testing 🧪

We need your help testing one feature in particular with this RC (autolinking of TurboModules from libraries)! Here is what you have to do:

1. generate a new app (as per command above)
2. turn on the new architecture:
   1. iOS
      1. cd ios
      2. bundle install && RCT_NEW_ARCH_ENABLED=1 bundle exec pod install(or RCT_NEW_ARCH_ENABLED=1 pod install)
      3. cd ..
      4. yarn ios
   2. Android
      1. go into gradle.properties
      2. switch the flag newArchEnabled to true
      3. yarn android
   3. verify that the app is running new arch by checking the Metro log for something along the lines of LOG Running "RN070RC1" with {"fabric":true,"initialProps":{"concurrentRoot":true},"rootTag":1}
3. add a library that has the new TM implementation (such as https://github.com/th3rdwave/react-native-safe-area-context) via yarn add <lib>
4. rerun the app again (remember to do a new RCT_NEW_ARCH_ENABLED=1 pod install for iOS), verify that the lib added works correctly
5. check in the file android/app/build/generated/rncli/src/main/jni/Android-rncli.mk that there's a reference to the library added, something along the lines of

   include <path>/node_modules/react-native-safe-area-context/android/build/generated/source/codegen/jni/Android.mk
   
   import-codegen-modules := \
     libreact_codegen_safeareacontext
   

6. let us know how it went by posting a comment in the working group discussion! Please specify with system you tried it on (ex. macos, windows).

Bonus points: It would be even better if you could swap things around: instead of using a fresh new app, use a more complex one - or use a different library that is already leveraging the new architecture!

0.70.0-rc.1

To test it, run:

npx react-native init RN070RC1 --version 0.70.0-rc.1

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0.69.3

Fixed

iOS specific

• Fix React-bridging header not found for third party modules (fa2acc32d1 by @Kudo)

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0.69.2

Changed

• Set react-shallow-renderer v16.15.0 for react v18 compat (a39a7c453d by @mikehardy)
• Upgrade RN CLI to v8.0.3 (28cbd21d21 by @thymikee)

iOS specific

• Hermes pod: change logic to use the hermes tag to set the pod source correctly (46a9edc854 by @kelset)
• Fix the race condition when calling readAsDataURL after new Blob(blobs) (bd12e41188 by @wood1986)
• Make sure that Flipper pods are not installed when creating a release build (23accbf58d by @cipolleschi)

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