React Native v0.17.0 released

v0.17.0 on GitHub (npm)

Added Android WebView 8cd7730
New Alert API that works both on iOS and Android 3a3af8a
Exposed navigator.product for detecting the React Native in javascript. Note to webpack users: due to a .json file being required, you may need json-loader
Wrapped the UIManager native module in javascript for better abstraction 60db876
Fixed react-native bundle failure on Windows 10 710b443
Fixed getting a Navigator navigationBar by reference df70005
Fixed packager assetRoots argument being ignored 802aef9
Fixed that inspecting a stateless component would cause a crash c489660
Added new Clipboard component on iOS and Android. Previously named RCTPasteboard on iOS 90c7ad1
Fixed using require("./image") sources in development on Windows fe3686e

Allow specifying a custom file path for JSC profiler output aaffb23
Added Image onLoadX support ae09a10
Open-sourced Android unit tests c0f60d2
Added support for passing ImagePipelineConfig to FrescoModule, for improved Fresco configurability 4890424
Experimental support for LayoutAnimation, needs to be manually enabled using UIManager.setLayoutAnimationEnabledExperimental 593a45e
Added support for NetInfo cf892a9
Added RTL (right-to-left) support to ToolbarAndroid c8eed6a
Added loadingIndicatorSrc property to Image, similar to iOS defaultSource, for displaying something while loading a38cd5c
Added support for double type in ReactPropGroup c0c8e7c
Added support for rotateX and rotateY transforms to views 96553cf

Fixed flaky rich-text TextInput scrolling b5be05d
Allow a custom SliderIOS thumb image 9fc3991
Allow custom colors and images on MapView annotations 5b5b550
Added polyline support to MapView: draw lines between two points with a custom color and width 8911b72
Added new didSetProps callback for configuring views or shadow views after setting props f86691a
Fixed onFocus/onBlur events for multiline TextInput 01a0fac
Fixed a MapView crash on iOS 8 by adding a forked implementation c63de5e
Added excludedActivityTypes to ActionSheetIOS 0f0b578
Added secure-text and login-password input types to AlertIOS. Also fixed cancel button highlighting and localization support for OK/Cancel labels f025049
Added blurOnSubmit support to multiline TextInput. This mimics behavior of hitting return in a single line input. 3704257
Fixed TextInput regression on iOS 8 and below 6d29f71
Fixed interrupted scrolling in nested ScrollViews 67bf0f1
Allow specifying a string for the systemIcon TabBarIOS property dd9c1e1
Added LinkingIOS support for Universal Links f4c286f
Added a style property to PickerIOS, allowing custom font sizes, colors and alignment e2c35dd
Added tintColor for ActionSheetIOS buttons 86bb656

Deprecated RCTRootView initialProperties property was removed bf0934a
Scrollview support was removed from UIManager 38db6fa
iOS native module bridge.modules was deprecated in favor of bridge.moduleClasses or -[bridge moduleForName/Class:. This allows for efficiently lazy-loading native modules 060664f