React Native v0.64.0

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React Native v0.64.0 Release Notes

• 💥 Breaking

  • 🐎 Enable inlineRequires by default in new projects' metro.config.js. Gives a performance benefit but slightly different JS execution order (959365a902 by @GantMan)
  • 👍 Minimum supported Node version changed to 12 (4b92e2e53d by @safaiyeh)
  • ✂ Remove deprecated CameraRoll API (deprecated in 0.61) (824d3a9770 by @seanyusa)
  • ✂ Remove deprecated CheckBox component (deprecated in 0.60) (dff17effe5 by @poteto)
  • ✂ Removed DEPRECATED_sendUpdatedChildFrames prop from ScrollView component (deprecated in 0.47) (345d0c1abb by @ZHUANGPP)
  • On Image, onLoad event objects' source.url is now renamed to source.uri. (74ab8f6e5a by @yungsters)

  Android specific

  • ✂ Remove support of Android API levels 16 through 20. The new minSDK version will be 21+ moving forward. (973198667d, 25a40cbc61, f829722b54, b133427778, 9b34aa261c, and 79d0a7d711 by @mdvacca; 49f10fd2e5 and a17ff44adc by @JoshuaGross; dd4298a377 by @safaiyeh)
  • 🛠 Fix ReadableArray null annotations. Possibly breaking change for Kotlin apps. (d76556543f by @dulmandakh)
  • On Image, onLoad and onError event objects will no longer have an extra uri property. (74ab8f6e5a by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Deletes the method PlayTouchSound method from UIManagerModule, this method was moved to the SoundManagerModule class. (d0c4c5eaf9 by @mdvacca)

  iOS specific

  • ✂ Remove calculateChildFrames from RCTScrollView (62aa84a325 by @PeteTheHeat)

  🗄 Deprecated

  Android specific

  • 🗄 Deprecated method UIManagerModule.getUIImplementation. This method will not be part of the new architecture of React Native. (fe79abb32c by @mdvacca)

  ➕ Added

  • ➕ Adds the Hermes runtime bytecode version number to the JS bundle requestURL. This allows Metro with Bytecode to work with prebuilt binaries. (34c405462f)
  • 👍 TextInput now supports onPressIn and onPressOut. (b7b0e23202 by @yungsters)
  • 👍 Allow setting a custom performance logger in XMLHttpRequest (57b10f759e by @rubennorte)
  • ➕ Add mock for DevSettings to jest preset (a50f736bb6 by @MarcoScabbiolo)
  • ➕ Added Inspector overlay support for Pressable (8ac467c51b by @yungsters)
  • Introduce NativeModulePerfLogger (0486640571 by @RSNara)
  • ➕ Add default titlePlaceholder in template configuration. (8ffa180d80 by @Esemesek)
  • Modified renderApplication to forward initialProps to WrapperComponent (4f5a092bf6 by @rubennorte)
  • ➕ Add warning to VirtualizedList when incorrectly using nested Lists or custom scroll components (7f2515ece8 by @kacieb)
  • ➕ Add native module for loading split JS bundles in development (fca3a39da5 by @makovkastar)
  • ➕ Added listenerCount() to DeviceEventEmitter and NativeEventEmitter. (b11d6ecbb8 by @yungsters)

  Android specific

  • ⬆️ Upgrade Hermes to version 0.7 and turn on ES6 Proxy support (776a415d98 and bb003816a3 by @Huxpro, a28dd38909 by @janicduplessis)
  • ➕ Add support for shadowColor on API level >= 28 (cfa4260598 by @IjzerenHein)
  • ➕ Add android_hyphenationFrequency prop to Text component (0fda91ffff and 7d8aeb4955 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
  • ➕ Add accessibilityHint to TouchableNativeFeedback (72285d808d by @CMDadabo)
  • ➕ Adds support for the onProgress event on Image (fa0e6f8051 by @yungsters)
  • 👍 ScrollView now supports contentOffset (ed29ba13f9 by @JoshuaGross)
  • ➕ Add an explicit NDK version to Android template (18ffe12203 by @safaiyeh)
  • 🔦 Exposed getFlex method as part of ReactShadowNode API (6570f7887b by @mdvacca)
  • ➕ Add \*.hprof files to gitignore (69ce9c21d4 by @enesozturk)
  • 🚚 Move DevSettingsActivity from main to debug (d8e6c45782 by @invalid-email-address)

  iOS specific

  • PlatformColor: add missing clearColor (b7167c23fc by @Simek)
  • ⚡️ Update template to Xcode 12 (6685aba462 by @janicduplessis)
  • ➕ Add importantForAccessibility to AccessibilityProps (fd660fd0c5 by @ZHUANGPP)
  • 👍 Allow hotkeys to be used without command key (f2b9ec7981 by @rickhanlonii)
  • ➕ Add disableButtonsIndices option to ActionSheetIOS component (a7c1c5aff2 by @lukewalczak)
  • ➕ Add showSoftInputOnFocus to TextInput (d54113d8c4 by @gurs1kh)
  • ➕ Added hostname to loading banner. (96999339b6 by @rickhanlonii)
  • 👍 Allow iOS PlatformColor strings to be ObjC or Swift UIColor selectors (25793eab56 by @tom-un)
  • ➕ Add Dark Mode support to loading banner (94c45af136 by @rickhanlonii)
  • 👍 Allow image loaders to enable/disable image telemetry (e37708dfb6 by @p-sun)
  • ➕ Add RCTDevSplitBundleLoader native module (ad879e50bc by @cpojer)

  🔄 Changed

  • ⚡️ Update flipper to 0.75.1 (3399896ae7 by @janicduplessis)
  • Refined Flow type for Text component. (a911efaecd by @yungsters)
  • 🐎 Changed type definition of IPerformanceLogger from object to interface (b90f4d978f by @rubennorte)
  • ✂ Removed fbjs dependency from react-native. (54e19a6b7f by @yungsters)
  • Refined ImageSource Flow type for array-variant and headers. (a0dc252dc8 by @yungsters)
  • ⚠ Some warnings changed to use console.warn without the "Warning:" prefix. (982272932c by @yungsters)
  • ⚡️ Core/Differ: detect and optimize reparenting (1e4d8d902d by @JoshuaGross)
  • 👌 Improve "not a registered callable module" error message (e27d656ef3 by @vonovak)
  • 0️⃣ Use VirtualizedList's onEndReachedThreshold default value when null is provided (10b4b9505a by @fatalsun)
  • Migrate large amount of modules to flow strict and strict-local (4409642811 by @rubennorte)
  • 0️⃣ Enable exact objects by default in the project template Flow config (050a7dd019 by @rubennorte)
  • Minor fix in Hermes Inspector cli tool help message (6ffb983f83)
  • ⚡️ Updated the React Hooks ESLint Plugin in the community ESLint config (ac87e90fa5 by @gaearon)
  • Don't scroll to initialScrollIndex if contentOffset is provided to the same VirtualizedList (3346ac7f96 by @markv)
  • Migrated VirtualizedList legacy context implementation to React.Context. (7bd694fc6f by @yungsters)
  • 🔄 Changed Flow type of BackHandler to be more specific. (a903d1b86a by @Naturalclar)
  • ⚡️ Updated transitive dependency kind-of to 6.0.3 to resolve vulnerability (abde0154ba by @TheSavior)
  • ⬆️ Upgrade eslint-config dependencies. (93019dc190 by @wcandillon)
  • ⬆️ Upgrade to Jest 25 (f248ba1c8b by @cpojer)
  • 👉 Use React.Children.count for counting children of TextInput (92160f3144 by @vonovak)
  • 📈 Annotate components in QPL logging using ImageAnalyticsTagContext (60b7a3085c by @p-sun)
  • ⬆️ Upgrade to React 17 (24bca492c3 by @rickhanlonii)
  • Made promise polyfill conditionalized on Hermes (0a28b34dac by @Huxpro)
  • 🚚 Flow: Remove type union in PickeriOS/PickerNativeComponent (3113e47b9b by @PeteTheHeat)
  • 💅 Flow: export ColorValue from StyleSheet instead of StyleSheetTypes (0a67133124)
  • Forward URL parameters from main bundle to hot reloaded bundles (b4785e5144 by @motiz88)
  • ➕ Add package name / bundle ID to bundle URL in development (9b5359133b by @motiz88)

  Android specific

  • ⬆️ Bump Gradle Wrapper to 6.7 (8988a073b4, 5bc67b658e, and 3a8559b86c by @friederbluemle; e559aee642 and e9fd93f53f by @dulmandakh)
  • ⬆️ Bump Android Gradle Plugin to 4.1.0 (cf8368f204 and 553fb8b28d by @friederbluemle, dfa9db49e3 by @dulmandakh)
  • ⬆️ Bump Okio to 1.17.5 (1e78e0655d by @dulmandakh)
  • 👉 Make Android versionCodeOverride for new apps using the template human-readable (e1bf515ae8 by @gedeagas)
  • ⬆️ Bump SoLoader to 0.9.0 (7465239230 by @dulmandakh)
  • ⚡️ Update Okhttp to version 3.12.12 (0f6fcb2c27 by @halaei)
  • ⚡️ Update Android build tools to 29.0.3 (e629e94b46 by @friederbluemle)
  • ViewCommands on Android now execute earlier, as a perf optimization. (c6b9cc36da by @JoshuaGross)
  • Effect of blurRadius now more closely matches other platforms. (64860972be by @yungsters)
  • ✅ Migrate Android tests to Robolectric v4 (6a78b32878 by @jselbo, d373a8d88c and 18f7abae07 by @fkgozali)
  • Get ripple drawables by id instead of by name (c8ed2dbbb2 by @vonovak)
  • 0️⃣ TextInput: Set caretHidden default value to true on Xiaomi devices to fix the crash (b5b4a70410)
  • ⚡️ Update loading banner text and colors (6afc984e81 by @makovkastar)
  • Declare all attrs used in res targets (05abbd245c by @IanChilds)

  iOS specific

  • Upgraded JSI with a new HERMES_ENABLE_BITCODE flag (311d4e9ef0 by @grabbou)
  • ✂ Remove main queue execution of constantsToExport in NativeModules (d7ac21cec5 by @RSNara)
  • ⚡️ Updated loading banner messages and color (3729fe8de0 by @rickhanlonii)
  • Speed up loading banner animations (3fb37b4326 by @rickhanlonii)
  • Shrink loading bar down to not cover safe area. (f0dfd35108 by @rickhanlonii)
  • 🍎 Build macOS framework and add CocoaPods podspec (ffa3d7f638 by @alloy)
  • 0️⃣ Set NSAllowsArbitraryLoads to false by default in template (7b61a968fd by @wddwycc)

  ✂ Removed

  • Text.viewConfig is no longer exported. (06ce643565 by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Removed once() and removeCurrentListener() from DeviceEventEmitter and NativeEventEmitter. (87a2e29f59 by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Removed tvOS related files from the template (df03228a61 by @Naturalclar)

  Android specific

  • ✂ Remove undocumented ColorAndroid function (411c344794 by @tom-un)

  🛠 Fixed

  • 🛠 Fix handling of very deeply nested data across the bridge (a8c90e6af4 by @mhorowitz)
  • Prevent TypeError in TaskQueue when cancelling a started but not resolved promise. (14042fb76f by @robwalkerco)
  • 🛠 Fix typo in ActionSheetManager invariant message (9c353b5ab0 by @sweatherall)
  • TouchableHighlight now correctly fires onPress when pressed for >500ms, when onLongPress is not supplied. (bdf3c79110 by @yungsters)
  • Pressability now consistently fires onPressIn and onPressOut, even without an onPress. (0c392bc405 by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Remove extraneous argument for onResponderGrant Flow type on Text. (49015b0f5b by @yungsters)
  • Prevent ScrollView From Stealing Responder Capture When Using Physical Keyboard (93e7a7a70d by @NickGerleman)
  • 🛠 Fix failure when debugging code in a browser; was caused by performanceNow() function. (db474a47b7 by @zerkella)
  • 🛠 Fix test renderer mocks to use the displayName more often. (4b935ae95f by @rickhanlonii)
  • 👉 Make sure LogBox is not included in production bundles (d3b937f990 by @janicduplessis)
  • Mark force as an optional property of the PressEvent object (ad2f98df8f by @Simek)
  • 🛠 Fix invalid event objects from onPressOut in certain cases (2c600b7c5a by @yungsters)
  • 🌲 When Hermes debugger is enabled continue to send log messages to the console (77ef8f881f by @MartinSherburn)
  • 🖐 Handle nullish initialProps correctly in renderApplication (26c120c632 by @rubennorte)
  • 🛠 Fix Flow type of Touchable{Opacity,Bounce,Highlight} being exported as any (de7f69a58e by @draperunner)
  • Clarified the boundaries in error message of scrollToIndex (78d2b3c813 by @sasurau4)
  • 🛠 Fix jsi cmake include dirs (f5d00e5a29 by @ryantrem)
  • 🛠 Fix race condition in KeyboardAvoidingView (b08fff6f86 by @sammy-SC)
  • 🛠 Fix clone issue in YogaNodeJNIBase (2707c17b07 by @pasqualeanatriello)
  • 🛠 Fix "Cannot read property 'getNativeScrollRef' of undefined" in createAnimatedComponent (629e10e91b by @sammy-SC)

  Android specific

  • 🛠 Fix App Bundle/Release build missing index.android.bundle with gradle plugin 4.1.0/gradle 6.5 (53f55001af by @tomoima525)
  • Do not crash when ScrollView snapToOffsets array is empty (d238da71aa by @makovkastar)
  • 🛠 Fixed TextInput not being selectable in removeClippedSubviews FlatLists (12a50c0a44 by @hsource)
  • 👉 Make nested Text components accessible as links (b352e2da81 by @ejanzer)
  • 🚚 Move selection to the end of the text input on accessibility click (f0e80ae229 by @ejanzer)
  • 🛠 Fix secure text entry setting to always hide text (f19372361f by @smeenai)
  • 👉 Make promise NativeModule methods dispatch to NativeModules thread (9c35b5b8c4 by @RSNara)
  • 🛠 Fix NoSuchMethodException when calling DisplayMetricsHolder.initDisplayMetrics in Android API level <= 16 (though those Android versions are no longer supported) (35128f45d1 by @mdvacca)
  • 🛠 Fixed error message in DebugCorePackage.getModule (a71f37b951 by @TheWirv)
  • ScrollView, HorizontalScrollView: do not ignore null contentOffset prop (9e85b7ad88 by @vonovak)
  • Picker - fix usage of setNativeSelectedPosition in onSelect (078e386024)
  • 🛠 Fix intermittent crash of ReactSlider on Android (32888a8b4a by @mdvacca)
  • 👉 Use actual constructor when throwing GradleScriptException (8ef0f1d90b)
  • 🛠 Fix skewX transform decomposition (797367c089 by @wcandillon)
  • 👍 Allow passing partial contentOffset to ScrollView on Android (0348953914 by @janicduplessis)
  • Check if NativeModules returned from CatalystInstanceImpl.getNativeModule are null before using them. (9263eb5d38 by @RSNara)
  • 🛠 Fix calculating view position within the window in split-screen mode (b020e7c440 by @jakubkinst)
  • Text layout no longer ignores parent bounds (025be8148a by @yungsters)
  • 🛠 Fixed excessive space in Text view with word-wrapping (dda7f82261 by @yungsters)
  • Pressable: ripple should be applied even when borderless == false (44ec762e41 by @vonovak)
  • 🛠 Fix ReadableNativeMap.getNullableValue to match signature and return null instead of throwing (1015194ba1 by @dulmandakh)
  • Picker: set color filter so that the arrow matches the text color (bb8d0f5732 by @ejanzer)
  • ⚡️ Modal: fix crash when updating props after the activity disappeared (7abcaafd66 by @mdvacca)
  • 🛠 Fix crash while measuring ReactSlider in Android API < 21 (75e6f7961f by @mdvacca)
  • 🛠 Fix measureLayout function for VirtualTexts (5c48c94f8c by @mdvacca)
  • Smoother scrolling in ScrollView, HorizontalScrollView (10314fe621 by @JoshuaGross)

  iOS specific

  • 🔀 Synchronize RCTImageLoader loaders initialization (edb6fa7979 by @p-sun)
  • 👉 Make sure js bundle still exists at bundle-output path (3a41f69f9c by @janicduplessis)
  • 🛠 Fix crash in WebSocket module (748aa13747 by @marksinkovics)
  • Align multi-line TextInput onSubmitEditing behavior: don't call onSubmitEditing when blurOnSubmit=false (521b16730d by @tido64)
  • 🛠 Fix passing react native path in Podfile template (e599d6c5d3 by @janicduplessis)
  • Call [RCTEventEmitter stopObserving] on correct method queue (23717e48af by @appden)
  • Persist Enable Fast Refresh across app launches (845e9eaafb by @stigi)
  • 🛠 Fix xcodebuild warnings in React-Core (cb719a16cc)
  • 🛠 Fix that RCTModalHostView can't be dismissed while being presented (8933724d7d by @Mi-ZAZ)
  • 🛠 Fix "'RCTBlobPlugins.h' file not found" when building iOS (aaeffdb49a by @tido64)
  • 👌 Improved text rendering on macOS Catalyst (694e22de84 by @andymatuschak)
  • 🛠 Fixed showing Alert while closing a Modal (f319ff321c by @devon94)
  • 🛠 Fix refreshControl messes up navigationBar largeTitles (1b0fb9bead by @yogevbd)
  • When Sec-WebSocket-Protocol header is empty vaulue, IIS server will return error 502. (fd85b84a86 by @bill2004158)
  • 🛠 Fix multiline TextInput crash when inserting/removing lots of text (15dda0ab5a by @tido64)
  • Group accessible views using the view hierarchy (e2fd9d4f22 by @p-sun)
  • 🛠 Fix Flow types for StatusBar showHideTransition (e5a8f4270e by @Simek)
  • 👍 Better error message when missing entry file (e73208e2ca by @petrbela)
  • 🛠 Fix imports in RCTUtilsUIOverride.h (b7e8f66795 by @Fanghao)
  • 🛠 Fix skewX/skewY/perspective/matrix transforms. (4b956fe5a6 by @wcandillon)
  • 🛠 Fix module lookup race condition on bridge invalidation. (8ad810717e by @fkgozali)
  • 🛠 Fix duration calculation for RCTUIImageViewAnimated (12f8b2598f)
  • Cap loading banner percentage at 100% (e27542bb13 by @rickhanlonii)
  • Delay loading banner message to prevent flashing messages (2b771b0129 by @rickhanlonii)
  • ⚡️ Do not update loading banner message while hiding the banner (131c497aa2 by @rickhanlonii)
  • 🏗 Search en0 through en8 for the Metro Bundler's IP address when generating iOS debug builds (b2b23a2017)
  • ⚠ Migrate frameInterval to preferredFramesPerSecond, fixing Xcode warnings (335f3aabe2 by @safaiyeh)
  • Animated image should animate at the same speed regardless of framerate (b0d0e51a77 by @p-sun)
  • 🛠 Fix logging lifecycle when image is scrolled out and immediately back in (1f95c9b62e by @p-sun)
  • 🛠 Fix image instrumentation lifecycle on image cancel (6cba4d2006 by @p-sun)
  • Break retain cycle in RCTLegacyViewManagerInteropCoordinator (8f90ce26a5 by @sammy-SC)
  • Respect port information if available from RCTBundleURLProvider (7d44959940 by @jimmy623)
  • ✂ Remove port from JSLocation when returning packager host (12543d557f by @jimmy623)
  • ✂ Remove requestToken being nil check from [RCTNetworkTask validateRequestToken] (ffc90c7f92 by @sammy-SC)
  • ✂ Remove unnecessary packager running check when saved JSLocation is empty (bbb7bef539 by @jimmy623)
  • 📦 Check whether packager is running in RCTBundleURLProvider for saved JSLocation (3d882495d5 by @jimmy623)
  • 🛠 Fix crash inside RCTRedBox when trying to present same UIViewController twice (46c77dc296 by @sammy-SC)
  • 🛠 Fix outdated CocoaPods version requirement in a React.podspec (8a6ac1fef3 by @sunnylqm)

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