v0.65.x on GitHub (npm)

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Release blog post

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Changelog

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v0.65.0

Highlights

• Hermes 0.8.1. Please see the highlighted changes from its 0.8.0 and 0.8.1 release notes.
• react-native-codegen version 0.0.7 is now needed as a devDependency in the package.json.

Breaking Changes

iOS specific

• Replace flipper_post_install with react_native_post_install hook. Will automatically detect if Flipper is enabled. (42dde12aac by @grabbou)

Added

• Add onPressIn & onPressOut props to Text (1d924549ca by @adrienharnay)
• Stabilize RootTagContext. And temporarily export both unstable_RootTagContext and RootTagContext (9d489354ae by @nadiia)
• Implement sendAccessibilityEvent in the React(Fabric/non-Fabric) renderer (99b7052248 by @JoshuaGross)
• Re-added localeIdentifier to I18nManager constants (6b91ae73cd by @acoates-ms)
• Add PressabilityPerformanceEventEmitter (c4c0065b00 by @JoshuaGross)
• Added displayName to some RN contexts to make them more easy to differentiate when debugging. (68a476103a by @bvaughn)
• Add displayName to TouchableHighlight and TouchableOpacity (c4e40b81c0 by @brunohkbx)
• Added context to URL's error messages when the feature is not implemented (452240bafa by @Crash--)
• Add a stickyHeaderHiddenOnScroll option to keep the sticky header hidden during scrolling down, and only slide in when scrolling up (ffba25c648)
• Added debugName parameter to renderApplication to use as the display name for the React root tree (eeb36f4709 by @rubennorte)
• Adding support for cancelOnBackground for UserFlow (0d4985900b by @dmitry-voronkevich)
• Introducing RuntimeScheduler module (eb13baf2a6 by @sammy-SC)
• Roll out TurboModule Promise Async Dispatch (5c4f145e33 by @RSNara)

Android specific

• Add getRecommendedTimeoutMillis to AccessibilityInfo (d29a7e7a89 by @grgr-dkrk)
• TalkBack now announces "unselected" when changing accessibilityState.selected to false. (73bc96ecf9 by @yungsters)
• Fbjni version bump to 0.0.3 (24f9f75bf6 by @IvanKobzarev)
• Add onFocus and onBlur for Pressable on Android. (cab4da7288)
• Introduce API to allow applications to register TurboModuleManagerDelegates with ReactInstanceManager (eb7e89e286 by @RSNara)
• Added convenience methods to simplify native Event classes and ease migrations (72d0ddc16f by @JoshuaGross)

iOS specific

• High contrast dynamic color options for dark and light mode. (4b9d9dda27 by @birkir)
• Adds an ability to retrieve the notifications authorization status from JavaScript side. (b86e52a9ec)
• Added reset method to RCTFabricSurface to help with reloads (53858ceaa3 by @PeteTheHeat)
• Allow RCTRootView to be initialized with a frame (00bc09c8f7 by @appden)
• Allow for configuring the NSURLSessionConfiguration (58444c74f5 by @hakonk)
• Use react-native-codegen in iOS app template (e99b8bbb40 by @hramos)

Changed

• Bump Flipper + Bump hermes (#31872 by @Titozzz)
• Show warning when native module without addListener or removeListeners is passed to NativeEventEmitter (114be1d217 by @rubennorte)
• Disable accessibilityState when the TouchableWithoutFeedback is disabled. (697164077c by @carloscuesta)
• Upgraded react-devtools-core dependency to 4.12.0 (5a2693d78f by @bvaughn)
• Set disabled accessibilityState when TouchableHighlight is disabled (f69e096bb4 by @Naturalclar)
• Add checks and logs to for better error handling (ea1f9531f0)
• CreateAnimatedComponent: removed deprecated lifecycles usage (ba61267015 by @nadiia)
• Hide caret in the TextInput during test runs. (397bfa6ad7 by @nadiia)
• Use usePressability hook in TextInput (c4aa411ee3 by @nadiia)
• Keyboard no longer inherits from NativeEventEmitter, so it no longer implements removeAllListeners, and removeSubscription. (1049835b50 by @yungsters)
• AppState no longer inherits from NativeEventEmitter, so it no longer implements addListener, removeAllListeners, and removeSubscription. (6f22989e92 by @yungsters)
• DevSettings no longer inherits from NativeEventEmitter (70cd569e7e by @yungsters)
• LogBox will not initially collapse stack frames if every frame would be collapsed. (88a41f180c by @yungsters)
• Update package name warning of deprecated modules (34e1b0ef98 by @Naturalclar)
• Update react-native-codegen to 0.0.7 (cd6c9f3273 by @Naturalclar)
• Update template devDependencies (652e3953f4 by @Bardiamist)
• Don't minify JS bundle by default when using hermes (1a67dda668 by @janicduplessis)
• Migrate warnings in index.js to point to new lean core repos (4421a64ac1 by @Naturalclar)
• Update Flipper to 0.93.0 (06c33e9abe by @mweststrate)
• Update Flipper to 0.91.1, fixed iOS build support for i386, use_flipper!() will no longer need custom overrides to build with XCode 12.5 (4246c75d0d by @mweststrate)
• Find node on m1 via homebrew node managers (4d40b53c12 by @danilobuerger)
• Clean up EventObjectPropertyType (0e46080847 by @RSNara)
• Appearance.addChangeListener now returns an EventSubscription. (305b4253c2 by @yungsters)
• Dimensions.addEventListener now returns an EventSubscription. (c47a03563d by @yungsters)
• Updated react-native-community/cli to v6 (hence updating metro to 0.66) (0d32aef3aa by @Titozzz)
• Reflect Hermes release version from HermesBadge (c54aeccf1a by @Huxpro)

Android specific

• Modified NativeEventEmitter to also use the passed native module to report subscriptions on Android (f5502fbda9 by @rubennorte)
• RefreshControl.size prop changed its type to string, the valid values are: 'default' and 'large' (dd60414578, 65975dd28d by @mdvacca)
• TouchableNativeFeedback: sync disabled prop with accessibilityState (88f2356eed by @kyamashiro)
• Rename hasActiveCatalystInstance to hasActiveReactInstance (dfa8eb0558)
• Record latest error type in dev support (423453e105)
• Passing accessibility state in button so it can announce disabled in talkback (5889cbebe3 by @huzaifaaak)
• Fixed issue that causes HorizontalScrollView to shift to the right when a TextInput is selected and keyboard pops up (b9b23e1ab1 by @JoshuaGross)
• Fixed jumpy RTL horizontal ScrollViews. If you have Android-specific JS hacks for handling RTL in ScrollViews, you probably can/probably want to remove them, because they should be reliable now and require fewer hacks. (fc032cd8d8 by @JoshuaGross)
• Add a new check to avoid calling this method (2b708560fc)
• Clipping subviews has been temporarily disabled in HorizontalScrollView in RTL mode. Minor/negligible perf impact. (da8ed6b625 by @JoshuaGross)
• Change StatusBar style handling strategy (7324b92dc4)
• Clean listeners during destroy of ReactContext (d79212120b by @mdvacca)
• Bump buildToolsVersion to 30.0.2, (5d01110b53 by @dulmandakh)
• Initial replacement of jcenter with mavenCentral. (704dd2812f by @ShikaSD)
• Remove developer tool guard for android (c7d28bca30)
• Bump Android compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion from 29 to 30 (55c8833817, c7efd5b369 by @mdvacca)
• Upgrade jsc-android to 250230.2.1 (341f061ce3 by @Kudo)
• Bump Gradle to 6.9, Android Gradle Plugin to 4.2.1 (547b4c92e4 by @dulmandakh)
• Bump gradle wrapper to 6.8.3 (7258afeea3 by @dulmandakh)
• Bumping OkHttp from 4.9.0 to 4.9.1. (6caec9d91f by @gedeagas)
• Bumping OkHttp from v3 to v4. (8207e97f91 by @arazabishov)
• Update Okhttp to version 3.14.19 (6bfd89d277 by @LukasFPV)
• Bump Fresco to 2.5.0 (8fa8934011 by @dulmandakh)
• Bump Fresco to 2.3.0 (280f524b49 by @dulmandakh)

iOS specific

• Give RCTNetworking handler provider block RCTModuleRegistry (4c5182c1cc by @RSNara)
• Give RCTImageURLLoader's loader/decoder provider blocks RCTModuleRegistry (af6bcfa3ab by @RSNara)
• Make RCTTurboModule getTurboModule: required (e0b8f5080f by @RSNara)
• Update React.podspec to require cocoapods >= 1.10.1 (b50b7e3a19 by @sunnylqm)
• Fix glog pod install with Xcode 12 (8a5fd8ea95 by @dulmandakh)
• Only show Dev Menu on shake if RN view is visible (7186c4de4f by @PeteTheHeat)
• progressViewOffset prop of RefreshControl and VirtualizedList now works on iOS (310a6bcf4b by @davidbiedenbach)
• Roll out TurboModule block copy (5275895af5 by @RSNara)
• Add instructions to template/ios/Podfile for enabling hermes (a326a30e32 by @SConaway)

Deprecated

• EventEmitter#removeSubscription is now deprecated. (cb6cbd12f8 by @yungsters)
• It is now deprecated to pass a constructor argument to EventEmitter(...). (14f7a2b707 by @yungsters)
• Deprecate AccessibilityInfo.removeEventListener. (003d63d6e5 by @yungsters)
• Deprecate Linking.removeEventListener. Instead, call remove() on the subscription returned by Linking.addEventListener. (6d1aca806c, 035718ba97 by @yungsters)
• Old Native method to create ScrollEvent has been deprecated and will be removed at some point in the (distant) future (62f0dee235 by @JoshuaGross)

Android specific

• Deprecate NativeModule.onCatalystInstanceDestroy() for NativeModule.invalidate() (18c8417290 by @RSNara)
• Mark hasActiveCatalystInstance() as Deprecated (1b50722a7e)

Removed

• Stabilize RootTagContext (9b98edcd01 by @nadiia)
• Removed getNode() from animated component refs. (b914153286 by @yungsters)
• Remove legacy context API usage in AppContainer (17be3a0032 by @nadiia)
• Removed AccessibilityInfo.fetch, use isScreenReaderEnabled instead. (d831134d51 by @yungsters)
• Remove unused VR-only props (95f7c791c5 by @Simek)
• Removed RCTDeviceEventEmitter.sharedSubscribers. (3af0c84aa5 by @yungsters)
• Moved ScrollResponder.Mixin methods into ScrollView to Remove ScrollResponder.js (099f67cf8a by @kacieb)
• NativeEventEmitter no longer inherits from EventEmitter, so it no longer implements removeListener and removeSubscription. Instead, use the remove() method on the subscription object returned by addListener. (d39643b9de by @yungsters)
• RCTDeviceEventEmitter no longer throws for StatusBar, Keyboard, and AppState events. However, you are still recommended to use the more appropriate modules for listening to these events. (c8c975f0d7 by @yungsters)
• Removed second optional argument of NativeEventEmitter constructor (f5f47879b8 by @yungsters)
• Removed warning on Android for setTimeout with delays greater than 1 minute. (480dabd665 by @yungsters)
• Removed Touchable.TOUCH_TARGET_DEBUG property. (ef765d423c by @yungsters)

Android specific

• Remove okhttp3 proguard rules (b4c9f13fe7 by @doniwinata0309)
• Remove filter pills (5cf4ab8dd2 by @suminkimm)
• Remove ReactFragmentActivity class. (2798e7172b by @dulmandakh)
• Remove jcenter (70da640946 by @dulmandakh)

iOS specific

• Removed event methods except addListener from Networking (a81b7d18fa by @yungsters)
• Delete deprecated "live reloading" setting (b512beb0c4 by @PeteTheHeat)
• Remove iOS10/tvOS10 support (f2c6279ca4, a1d626739d by @PeteTheHeat)
• Remove iOS10/tvOS10 support from remaining podfiles (f0faa7843c by @PeteTheHeat)
• Delete RCTTurboModuleManagerDelegate getTurboModule:initParams (c4c34a1237 by @RSNara)

Fixed

• Don't disconnect DevTools WebSocket connection on Cmd+D (60a18c138c by @bvaughn)
• For native components that accept color arrays, invalid elements will now fallback to transparent with a console error. (bb6cd56fae by @yungsters)
• Fixes usage of std::thread in runtime executor (75d9ba733f by @asklar)
• Fix sticky header not sticking on first render in ScrollView (921c9ff165 by @kacieb)
• Fix ScrollView getInnerViewNode and getInnerViewRef ref methods (6e36d046a3 by @vshab)
• Fix stalling UI due to a bug in KeyboardAvoidingView (67309277fe by @sammy-SC)
• Avoid eating clicks/taps into ScrollView when using physical keyboard (6d2a527984 by @NickGerleman)
• Fix nested FlatList not firing onScrollDragEnd and onMomentum methods (46be292f67 by @kacieb)
• Fix race condition in Debug Inspector shutdown (d021000b9e by @MartinSherburn)
• Fixes layout of nodes with YGDisplayNone and YGPositionTypeAbsolute (b15f8a30e7 by @rozele)
• Fix changes of View visibilities (4076293aa1 by @mdvacca)
• Fix: save connection url as class variable (8facc865ab by @sirpy)
• Fix Hermes build on folly version 2021.04.26.00 (8eceee744e by @PeteTheHeat)
• Fix disabled handling for Text (33ff4445dc by @lunaleaps)
• Fix disabled prop not disabling onPress for voice assistant (1c7d9c8046 by @kacieb)
• Fix unsafe cast and detect overflow in MapBuffer. (e69f1c9f50)
• Fix(deps): bump metro to 0.66.2 + dedup (e40f58272d by @Titozzz)

Android specific

• Fixed crash when using style borderRadius: any with backgroundColor: null (42b6e6682c)
• Fix font weight numeric values (3827ca6171 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
• Fix wrong ripple color on Switch component (1b0683533a by @rnike)
• Fix Selected State does not announce when TextInput Component selected on Android (7ee2acc6c8 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
• Fix layout bug in ReactTextView. (dec1b6ba15)
• Fix source build on Windows machines vol. 2 (c37d49492b)
• Make NativeModules immediately initializable (2bf866e401 by @RSNara)
• Restore android_hyphenationFrequency on Text. (1433ed6333 by @yungsters)
• Display the testID as the resource-id for black-box testing frameworks (381fb395ad by @jdeff)
• Fix support for blobs larger than 64 KB (f00e348ca7 by @tomekzaw)
• Fix building React Android on Windows. (5dc15222b2)
• Fix race-condition on the initialization of ReactRootViews (74a756846f by @mdvacca)

iOS specific

• Animated images without loop no longer animate twice (17aa1e320e by @comvenger-brandon)
• Allow PlatformColor to work with border colors (c974cbff04 by @danilobuerger)
• RCTSurfaceHostingView default background color is now consistent with RCTRootView (f31497354b by @fkgozali)
• Invalidate TurboModules with infra-generated method queues on their method queues (497eb578ab by @RSNara)
• Fix RefreshControl layout when removed from window (e67811e7a6 by @janicduplessis)
• Tab Accessibility Role had incorrect localization string (80a10953f9 by @adkenyon)
• Incorrect ScrollView offset on update (a4526bcc3f by @rnike)
• Modal's onDismiss prop will now be called successfully. (d85d5d2e19 by @kkoudev)
• Fix DatePicker sizing issue (84d55868e8 by @sammy-SC)
• First press not working after pull to refresh (c4950610e4 by @rnike)
• Fix Codegen silently failing when Yarn is not installed, or when Yarn v2 is active. (07e4953514 by @ivanmoskalev)
• Make codegen more reliable on iOS (12fccdeea3 by @janicduplessis)
• Fix crash in RCTCoreModulesClassProvider during quit (2f62c2892d by @appden)
• Fix an issue calling stopSurface in bridgeless mode before surface is started (81096901a8)
• Move hermes to a separate podspec (0959ff36d1 by @janicduplessis)
• Fix cli bundle platform for Mac Catalyst in react-native-xcode.sh (b496a531e0 by @robertying)
• Fix prefetchImageWithMetadata redbox(f27e305056 by @p-sun)
• Roll out RCTNetworking extraneous NativeModule call removal (0e0d2e84f5 by @RSNara)
• Fix Hermes + no Flipper build on Xcode 12.5 (b9243e00e3 by @PeteTheHeat)
• Fix(hermes): fixed hermes build on iOS (59abb5f378 by @Titozzz)
• Fix builds on Xcode 12.5 (36b58a824e by @PeteTheHeat)
• Fix running React Native project with Xcode 12 in Release on iPhone Simulator (fdcacd7f76 by @grabbou)