v0.63.x on GitHub (npm)

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Changelog

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v0.63.0

Breaking

• The target field of events is now a native component, not a react tag (3b813cade1 by @TheSavior)
• Modal: Remove support for animated prop (deprecated in 0.26) (1e9db7bd6d by @TheSavior)
• Alert: Remove deprecated support for passing callback as fourth argument to Alert.prompt (deprecated in 0.59) (a26d622d04 by @TheSavior)
• Switch: Remove support for thumbTintColor, tintColor, onTintColor props (deprecated in 0.57) (26912bd979 by @TheSavior)
• Multiple deprecations and breaking changes to TextInputState. Use native component refs instead of react tags (6286270e4c by @TheSavior)
• Bump supported Node engines to >= 10 (f0c7178a3a by @safaiyeh)

Deprecated

• Add deprecation warnings for Clipboard, SegmentedControlIOS, ProgressViewIOS, ProgressBarAndroid. These modules have been moved to react-native-community libraries. (f295d7f608 by @Naturalclar)
• Deprecated console.disableYellowBox in favor of LogBox.ignoreAllLogs. (87f1e22434 by @rickhanlonii)

Android specific

• We are deprecating the method UIManagerModule.resolveRootTagFromReactTag, this will not be supported in the next version of RN (acbf9e18ea by @mdvacca)
• Add warning message for trying to use ToolbarAndroid which has been removed from the core since 0.61. (6249d14a61 by @Naturalclar)

iOS specific

• Deprecate iOS 9.x support (58a6a40eac, 829a2237d2, 674b591809 by @fkgozali, d1265077d6 by @sunnylqm)

Added

• Implement nativePerformanceNow and performance.now() (232517a574 by @emilisb)
• Support PerformanceLogger stopTimespan updates (08c338eebf by @sahrens)
• Added PlatformColor implementations for iOS and Android (f4de45800f by @tom-un)
• Stamp React Native Version Into C++ Code (427ba359e0 by @NickGerleman)
• New <Pressable> Component to make it easier to create touchable elements (3212f7dfe8 by @TheSavior, bd3868643d by @vonovak)
• Export LogBox module (799bf56f6f by @rickhanlonii)
• Export LayoutAnimationConfig flow type (f0dafd34fe by @sahrens)
• Added react-native-community/eslint-plugin as a dependency for react-native-community/eslint-config (2c2e35c634 by @Naturalclar)
• DEBUG_NETWORK_SEND_DELAY can be used to simulate slow network. (4aac019176 by @sahrens)
• Support for accessibilityLabel prop to the Picker component (0a525b6d9d by @KevinGVargas)
• Allow zIndex to useNativeDriver (6a4e06faa8 by @mackenziemance)

Android specific

• Support item background color in Dialog Picker (22eb711c84)
• Add OverrideColorScheme interface and setOverrideColorScheme method to AppearanceModule(45d7df6cf7)
• Allow setting custom ripple radius on TouchableNativeFeedback (7f2a79f40b by @vonovak)
• Add resizeMode prop support on TextInlineView (6871416328 by @mdvacca)
• Added an API for checking if there are busy timers to TimingModule (22764e6cdc by @ejanzer)
• Make packager location customizable in dev mode (3714f3648a)

iOS specific

• UIScene support for RCTImageView (f332fac163 by @tido64)
• Status bar style is now correctly changed in multi-window iPadOS 13 apps if you use RCTRootViewController and set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance=YES (80e6d672f3 by @radex)
• Added userInterfaceStyle for ActionSheetIOS and Share to override user interface style on IOS 13 (0a9cc34dd8 by @Arjan-Zuidema)
• Add localized accessibility strings to ReactCore pod (aebf54aee4 by @xuelgong)
• Resolve and reject promise for PushNotificationIOS.requestPermissions (edfdafc7a1 by @p-sun)
• Use autolink script in template on iOS (a35efb9400 by @janicduplessis)
• Added Flipper to template app (52cd9cd6fe by @safaiyeh)
• Add textColor and backgroundColor props to SegmentedControl for iOS >=13 (e8f577e541 by @Naturalclar)
• Adds RCTOverrideAppearancePreference to the iOS Appearance module (fa65b156d4)
• Changed iOS LaunchScreen from xib to storyboard (33b3a1a145 by @jeswinsimon)

Changed

• Update react-native-community/eslint-config to 1.1.0, adding the new color rule (780f06cd47 by @TheSavior)
• Update community eslint plugin in the eslint config (b2d10bc602 by @Naturalclar)
• Upgrade eslint-config and metro-preset in project template (ad86a18305 by @Naturalclar)
• Add ES Lint rules for DynamicColorIOS()and ColorAndroid() (602070f44b by @tom-un)
• Make ScrollView use forwardRef (d2f314af75 by @kacieb)
• Upgrade embedded React DevTools backend from v4.0.6 to v4.6.0 (93ee5b2cc8 by @bvaughn)
• Updated the React Hooks ESLint Plugin (6ce3f0a4f7 by @gaearon)
• Update to React 16.13.1 (9637d6214a by @gaearon)
• Relax RefreshControl's onRefresh flow typing (884c86ae02 by @vonovak)
• Improved flowtype support for Animated (bdafc55f50 by @javache)
• Upgrade eslint-plugin-relay to 1.6.0 (0483404d82 by @kassens)
• Upgrade to latest dependencies in package.json template (82e8239337 by @codler)
• Make JSStringToSTLString 23x faster (733532e5e9 by @radex)
• Changed property disableIntervalMomentum to work with both horizontal and vertical ScrollViews (6237cfb325 by @Shaninnik)
• Upgraded to Flow v0.114.0 (aa78457343 by @mroch)
• Updated CLI to the latest version (ddc33007ad by @grabbou)
• Upgrade Prettier from 1.17 to 2.0.2. (cf44650b3f by @bolinfest)
• Only set dimensions if the window attributes change (35c6bb9ac0 by @cpojer)
• Upgrade internal packages to support ESLint >= 6 (89d04b5e4a by @Barbiero)
• Make JSCRuntime::createValue faster (24e0bad8be by @radex)
• Add perf markers in XMLHttpRequest (71b8ececf9 by @sahrens)
• Update SoLoader to 0.8.2 (0a6f058b6b by @passy)
• console.error calls, and uncaught exceptions are now displayed in the Metro logs as well (ffb82cb2f0 by @mweststrate)
• Upgrade Flipper to 0.37.0 (17f025bc26 by @sunnylqm)

Android specific

• Upgraded to Hermes 0.5.0 (4305a291a9 by @willholen)
• Internal storage now will be preferred for caching images from ImageEditor. (79efa43428 by @kitttn)
• Update Gradle Wrapper to 6.2 (d4d8887b50 by @friederbluemle)
• Upgrade Folly to v2020.01.13.00 (6e2131b8fa by @Kudo)
• Only update dimensions in ReactRootView if they've changed (cc3e27d484 by @ejanzer)
• ReactEditText extends AppCompatEditText (aaa2765a92 by @dulmandakh)
• Make ReactApplicationContext nullable as the constructor argument of ReactContextBaseJavaModule (f8d5c5bfd7 by @RSNara)
• Update Android Gradle plugin to 3.5.3 (e1e081b00e by @SaeedZhiany)
• Don't emit dimensions update event on initial load (383934a06e by @ejanzer)
• Bump Android build-tools to 29.0.2, compileSdk to 29 (edcbfb9821 by @mdvacca)

iOS specific

• Disambiguate autolinking-ios.rb script from CLI’s “autolinking” feature and bring RNTester & template in line. (4118d79826 by @alloy)
• Updated Flipper iOS integration to be included by default in the Debug configuration (619d5d60df by @alloy)
• Use Apple unified logging API (os_log) (f501ed682a by @LeoNatan)
• Upgrade Folly to v2020.01.13.00 (a27e31c059 by @Kudo)
• Remove the xcshareddata from .gitignore (7980615d37 by @pvinis)
• Add complete_nullability = True to compatible libraries (796a4ea7e3)
• Remove the Flipper pod post install step (44beb2a685 by @priteshrnandgaonkar)
• Enable Flipper with CocoaPods :configuration (7bb1c4e1b8 by @alloy)

Removed

• Remove unusedImageProp (fbd09b1797 by @Naturalclar)
• Remove leftover Incremental component (e99800267b by @venits)
• Remove "Debug with Nuclide" option (011eb4cea5 by @rickhanlonii)

Android specific

• Remove unused Feature Flag: lazilyLoadViewManagers (3963f34980 by @JoshuaGross)
• PickFirst options for RNTester and template (4bb0b4f205 by @passy)
• Remove Kotlin version from the default template (ced959bb3d by @grabbou)

iOS specific

• Remove core RCTConvert CoreLocation Libraries (bcf2a716fb by @maschad)
• Remove copyright notices from iOS application template (9c3fa57337 by @alloy)
• Remove three properties: textColor, font and textAlignment from RCTBackedTextInputViewProtocol, unifying the usage into defaultTextAttributes. (aff6bad27c by @jimmy623)

Fixed

• Add support to render <View> with no fixed size nested within a <Text> (dbb7eacb42 by @mdvacca)
• Fixes bug where <Text><View><Image> would crash. (66601e755f by @TheSavior)
• Use new setTextCursorDrawable API for Android 10 (e7a14b803f by @sturmen)
• Fix Animated.Value initialized with undefined in ScrollView (cf02bd9b76 by @janicduplessis)
• Do not explicitly include .js in Library imports (161b910494 by @NickGerleman)
• Fixed Pressability to properly fire onLongPress. (5ca1d8f260 by @yungsters)
• Fixed typo from inly to only inside Modal.js library code. (686d8a57f8 by @Darking360)
• Fix viewability calculations for nested VirtualizedLists inside of a parent list's FooterComponent (074a2fab74 by @logandaniels)
• Fix android TextInput transitions (0a17a4fe56)
• Remove JS autoFocus implementation (0569d4c431 by @janicduplessis)
• Check null values in shouldAnimate (3498b3b96b by @axe-fb)
• Fix AccessibilityInfo.isScreenReaderEnabled mock in Jest setup (ec3327b61a by @rubennorte)
• Fix crash when passing invalid UTF-16 data from JSC into native code (011cf3f884 by @motiz88)
• Make YGValue.h compile with Clang on Windows (014bc95135 by @christophpurrer)
• Fix documentation comments for HermesJS's Function::callWithThis method to accurately reflect how this is handled. (399bda5284 by @Kronopath)
• Fix resolving assets outside of the project root (7deeec7396 by @janicduplessis)
• Transform empty responses into empty Blobs (9a8c06b502 by @RSNara)
• Fix validation of event mappings for AnimatedEvent (19362f6116 by @javache)
• Fix NativeJSCHeapCapture (7e3a43c23d by @RSNara)
• Add AnimationInterpolation as possible type for toValue (26e8870fbf by @nabati)
• Fix return type of StyleSheet.create (4e71a30969 by @jbrown215)
• Adjust HelloWorld-tvOSTests/Info.plist CFBundleIdentifier to use PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER (98ebc1ea25 by @MoOx)
• Fix bug where if Error global is not callable when building an error, jsi will throw a JS exception back to JS code. #158 (a195447539 by @mhorowitz)
• Fix stylesheet validation for functions with custom prototype methods. (f464dad5d4)
• Fix sporadic issue with onEndReached called on load when not needed (8ddf231306 by @sahrens)
• Correct argument types of NativeJSDevSupport.onSuccess (b42371da5a by @RSNara)
• Add URLSearchParams and Headers to eslint globals (7a13a1a88f by @sonnyp)
• Export exception classes with default visibility (84adc85523 by @appden)
• Add URL to eslint globals. (ff9def41ff by @sonnyp)
• Plumb through memory allocation profiler feature to Chrome Inspector (ed3054927c by @jbower-fb)
• Better monorepo support when building release apk (a8e85026cf by @grabbou)
• LogBox - Fix dependency cycle (6ba2aeefa8 by @rickhanlonii)
• Always update background color and bar style on Android status bar (9457efa84c)
• Disable accessibility state changes of the focused view for Android API < 21 (f2d58483c2 by @mdvacca)

Android specific

• Gradle release config (0d1fb458ab by @vdmtrv)
• Change how TextInput responds to requestFocus to fix a11y focus issue (d4a498aba2 by @ejanzer)
• Fixed style in TextInputTestCase (8c493804f3 by @ejanzer)
• Fix template instacrash from missing androidx dependency (a1b14deb3e by @alloy)
• Implement native TextInput autoFocus on Android (055a41b081 by @janicduplessis)
• Support for case insensitive Origin headers for Websockets (aeaf286c77 by @brunobar79)
• RNTester Buck Build (a3cb377645 by @passy)
• Fix bug in updating dimensions in JS (bef845ffd5 by @ejanzer)
• Applied missing changes from bumping Gradle wrapper to 6.0.1 (aa0ef15335 by @SaeedZhiany)
• Unregister JSDevSupport from DebugCorePackage (c20963e11c by @RSNara)
• Make sure ServerHost is optional in NativePlatformConstants.js (048f88a33a by @RSNara)
• Removed code that would cause accessibility header role to be spoken twice (7428271995 by @KevinGVargas)
• Fail silently in AppStateModule.sendEvent if CatalystInstance is not available (c4806fada6 by @JoshuaGross)
• RN Picker - fix types in AndroidDialogPickerManagerInterface (56b0f5cb6b)
• Fix Hermes debugger being disabled by default (b8621f5d30 by @willholen)

iOS specific

• Fixed connection of metro reload command to iOS device (f9df93385e by @reyalpsirc)
• Remove RCTDevLoadingView jank (faff19a7c6 by @RSNara)
• Fix crash when passing null value in object parameter of bridged method (15434c7c43)
• Get ready for Clang 10 (8721ee0a6b by @maxovtsin)
• Fix RCTBlobManager cleanup crash (91c5ff4a12 by @RSNara)
• Make Lambda function called in NativeModule mutable (5290047d09 by @maschad)
• Fix crash in RCTCxxBridge.executeApplicationScript (0c2db3256f by @ahimberg)
• Fix RCTDevLoadingView RedBox on reload (fe5ac2c3f9 by @RSNara)
• Fix Image component crashing when uri is null (06b8b15b0a by @mlazari)
• Fix RCTDevLoadingView not showing up with UIScene (74b667dbc2 by @tido64)
• Prevent interactive dismissal for non-fullscreen modals (1e7ed81d16)
• Resolve localization warnings in template (0e4bcaa296 by @safaiyeh)
• Implement requiresMainQueueSetup in RCTDevSettings.mm (adf87dd7ed by @logandaniels)
• Resolve React-RCTText Xcode warning (04fed6508b by @safaiyeh)
• Resolve Xcode warnings from React-cxxreact. (dc6c57ce0d by @safaiyeh)
• RCTReconnectingWebSocket is reconnecting infinitely when stopped before getting connected (0d4b0e9417)
• Fix prop name of passwordRules in TextInput (3f5c42f357 by @Naturalclar)
• Remove need for Swift file in the user’s project in order to use Flipper (8f93dedc6a by @alloy)
• Clear all held jsi::Functions when jsi::Runtime is deleted (9ae95582e7 by @RSNara)
• Make framework builds work again by making RCTImageLoader C++ requirement opt-in (25571ec452 by @alloy)
• Enable dev keyboard shortcuts on Mac Catalyst (56dfc86d64 by @charpeni)
• Fix RCTTextView layout issue that happens on some font with leading attribute not equal to zero, which causes wrong base-alignment layout (5d08aab526)
• Fix LAN instead of Wi-Fi device bundle configuration (d1e6f8d3c4 by @Oleg-E-Bakharev)
• Add autorelease pool for each run loop for JS Thread (948cbfdacc by @zhongwuzw)
• Fixed bug in implementation of <TextInput>'s selectOnFocus prop (e020576b34 by @shergin)
• RCTRedBox doesn't appear in apps implementing UISceneDelegate (d0a32c2011 by @tido64)
• Fixes the InputAccessoryView.backgroundColor prop’s typing to use ColorValue. (a43fd60e18 by @alloy)
• Fix Animated image crash when CADisplayLink target in RCTWeakProxy is nil (e5a6655e71 by @p-sun)

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v0.63.1

Added

• Added minPressDuration to Pressable. (4aaf629982 by @yungsters)
• Support for array buffers in the JavaScriptCore implementation of JSI (9c32140068 by @ryantrem)

Android specific

• ProGuard rule for hermes (449dc37720 by @radko93)

Fixed

• LogBox.ignoreAllLogs() should ignore logs (f28c7505fa by @rickhanlonii)

Android specific

• Fix font variant crash on Android < 4.4 (f23feced42 by @Almouro)
• Fix border-drawing when changing border-radius back to 0` (7757ad0576 by @IjzerenHein)
• Fix rounded border-drawing when border-radius is smaller than border-width` (28dce3665d by @IjzerenHein)

iOS specific

• TextInput color has the same default (#000) on iOS whether in light or dark mode (a2f8b9c36e by @JonnyBurger)
• Fixes TextInput shaking when typing Chinese (9cdc19a936 by @zhongwuzw)

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v0.63.2

Fixed

• Restore Previous Behavior for StyleSheet Validation of Null/Undefined Styles (e75557b48f by @NickGerleman)

Android specific

• Set LogBox windowTranslucentNavigation to false (23036b38bc by @Ashoat)
• Fix unable to run in debug mode on Android API < 21 (7694b32a88 by @Shywim)

iOS specific

• Fix image cannot show in iOS 14 (123423c2a9)