v0.51.0 on GitHub (npm)

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Highlights

• New styling rules:
  • padding(Start|End)
  • margin(Start|End)
  • border(Top|Bottom)(Start|End)(Width|Color) - (1ed08d3, 04a8c62, 7ed7593,
    0f467a2, 1a7abcf, 1b5f8d3, 0a70c02, 64284bf, 38c2c26, 875f273) - @rsnara
  • Partial rounded borders (4994d6a) - @rsnara

Breaking changes

• Consider negative border radii and widths invalid (99d294b) - @rsnara

Android

Bugfixes

• Fixing bug when permission showing dialog and user go to home and re-open
  minimized app (ce967c6) - @RafaelMagalhaesN
• Fix wrong error code when location service is turned off on Android device
  (7e0b7ef)
• Fixing RTL HorizontalScrolling (c278020)
• Fix line terminators for ImageStore.getBase64ForTag (7a7bdee) - @FnTm

New features and enhancements

• Add visible-password for TextInput.keyboardType (752b688) - @fmoo
• Add helpful examples to Android test env validation failure messages.
  (ff908aa) - @pori

Others

• Put all non-drawable resources to res/raw (cc86d12)
• Native Animated - Restore default values when removing props (2b4ff6e) -
  @janicduplessis
• Event documentation - Adding part about mapping event names. (e6ef035) -
  @tdekoning
• Removed ProgressBarAndroid.android deprecation warning (b60fa63) - @bvaughn
• Forward RN start/end styles to Yoga (dc92e69) - @rsnara

iOS

Bugfixes

• Fix potential retain cycles in Animated iOS (c47759a) - @janicduplessis
• Fix iOS 11 WebView extra white space on top due to
  contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior (2546c95) - @yshing
• Fix memory leak in RCTSafeAreaView (9150975) - @mmmulani

New features and enhancements

• Opensourcing RCTWrapper (c0e9936) - @shergin
• Add "jsBundlesDirectory" method to RCTBridgeDelegate (dd400f8) -
  @fromcelticpark
• Introduce RCT_EXPORT_SYNCHRONOUS_TYPED_METHOD() macro to provide the return
  type of a sync method (47bfbbb) - @fkgozali
• Make react-native link play nicely with CocoaPods-based iOS projects.
  (74146cb) - @mironiasty
• Support for ExtraBold alias of Heavy (font-weight 800) (d38b95f) - @sjmueller
• Add "subject" field for Share (eca3319) - @gusgard

Others

• [RCTShadowView localData] is now only setter. (b0c1bd2) - @shergin
• Deprecated stuff was removed from RCTUIManager (4342879) - @shergin
• Deprecated stuff was removed from RCTShadowView (32e5c8e) - @shergin
• Issue #16159 - RCTImageStoreManager's priority (4e5d50d) - @tsjamm
• Make RCTUIManager and RCTDeviceInfo unsubscribe from NSNotificationCenter on
  (04ff184)
• Move JS-native version check to its own module + unit tests + prefix Obj-C
  macro w/RCT (7733d40) - @ide
• Forward RN start/end styles to Yoga (38b5506) - @rsnara
• Move RCTConvertSelectorForType to their respective using modules (bbc90b4)
• Code cleanup - Xcode 9 build warning/issue. (3fa6482) - @nbomberger

General

Bugfixes

• Updated project file to fix Apple TV build (aa97c9a) - @shergin
• Fix that section headers in SectionList don't stick at correct position.
  (a541d58) - @miyabi
• Fix scrolling events for RN. (ca834f9)
• Fix platform flags to also check for linux (7997a2b) - @mzlee
• Fixed crash on attempt to update local data of deallocated shadow node
  (f2c6877) - @shergin
• VirtualizedList: fix bug where onViewableItemsChanged wouldn't trigger
  (6747a36) - @formatlos
• Fix Systrace section for Lazy View Managers (52a67db) - @alexeylang
• Fix border clipping (de313f6) - @rsnara
• Fix Flow errors at declaration of most major library components (833b274) -
  @Ashoat
• Fix crash when loading local bundle and hot reload is enabled (1d674f0) -
  @dtsolis

New features and enhancements

• Add finally method to Promise flow definition (4eccb16) - @Bhullnatik
• Add React Native Bot (1de46b5) - @hramos
• js1 metro-bundler: add script to publish new version (acd9a29) - @jeanlauliac
• Added fetchBundle global function (452ac1b) - @fromcelticpark
• Improve support for unbundle feature (e268883) - @dmueller39
• Add Danger and publish to npm (601abd2) - @hramos
• Add support for FBReactModule (Wilde) to use jsi/hermes with a bcbundle
  (0a7d5ab) - @mhorowitz
• Add callback for UIImplementation layout updates (91372e8) - @ayc1
• Add babel-plugin-transform-exponentiation-operator to
  babel-preset-react-native (30b057f) - @DylanVann
• Implement partial rounded borders (4994d6a) - @rsnara
• Implement border(Left|Right|Top|Bottom)Color for rounded borders (f788831) -
  @rsnara
• Implement gating support for direction-aware API changes (98547d4) - @rsnara
• Add examples to RTLExample (bc5083a) - @rsnara
• Implement direction-aware border clipping (00c9c1a) - @rsnara
• Introduce mobile config flag to load classes for View Managers (f0fb720)
• Introduce getConstants generation for Native Modules codegen. (a5550a5)
• Adds PrivateDatabase podspec (6817f05) - @notjosh

Others

• Using StyleSheet.hairlineWidth in TextInputExample (9e220da) - @shergin
• Direct assignment of the ref to avoid warning when mocking (bbceb48) - @jmoutte
• Document adb shell input keyevent 82 (b9da155) - @forki
• Change attribute mentioned in alignItem (7c89cf3) - @linh-le
• Correct propTypes for TextInput's placeholder (dbe6044) - @gusgard
• Handling exceptions in video player (9424cd7)
• Improve flow typing and linting for MessageQueue (7b575d6) - @dulinriley
• Remove redundant style field from ScrollView propTypes. (0ec04ed) - @fmoo
• more detailed CxxModule logging (4192790) - @dryganets
• RN: Improve NativeEventEmitter Flow Types (2fff445) - @yungsters
• Un-revert logMarker for hermes diff (f3b117a) - @johnislarry
• Update Animated docs to mention potential issues with VirtualizedList
  (a59d157) - @rawrmaan
• Update the NetInfo.isConnected example code so that it uses the new
  connectionChange event (8b044dc) - @fibbers
• Update Flow to v0.57.2 (720a99a) - @gabelevi
• Persistent Yoga (60c898d) - @sebmarkbage
• Expose ReactInstanceManager from ReactRootView (dc16150) - @ayc1
• Update to regenerator-runtime@0.11.0 (747eeba) - @zertosh
• Apple TV: TouchableOpacity and Button need hasTVPreferredFocus support
  (c1223c5) - @dlowder-salesforce
• Handle touchCancel properly in ScrollResponder (bae9b2b) - @kmagiera
• Remove usage of the ... operator in BackHandler (165b38a) - @dantman
• Use ReactMarker for all perf logging in the bridge (95073f8) - @alexeylang
• Export deps to be source-ABI friendly (18364e9) - @jkeljo
• React native shadow tree sonar plugin (90a4239) - @ayc1
• Rename I18nManager Left/Right swap methods (efa4d3c) - @rsnara
• Remove experimental shouldBridgeInitializeNativeModulesSynchronously:
  (ca85a53) - @danzimm
• Remove experimental shouldBridgeLoadJavaScriptSynchronously: (fe792f5) -
  @danzimm
• Remove the experimental concept of whitelisted modules (55f75df) - @danzimm
• RN catalyst instance destroy markers (1c10431) - @cwdick
• Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (c0fea38) - @hramos
• Automated fixups for Instagram (dd016f3) - @jkeljo
• Change name of the file to edit (7153671) - @martincerny-awin
• Remove quicklog (9742bcb) - @alexeylang
• Gate ReactNativeVersionCheck by DEV (8ef28ea) - @cblappert
• [podspec] Define pod_target_xcconfig for PrivateDatabase (87e524b) - @ide