React Native v0.70.0

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React Native v0.70.0 Release Notes

• 💥 Breaking

  • ✂ Remove jest/preprocessor from the react-native package (0301cb285b by @motiz88)
  • ✂ Remove nonstandard Promise.prototype.done (018d5cf985 by @motiz88)

  ➕ Added

  • 👌 Support TypeScript array types for turbo module (module only) (f0c4c291e1 by @ZihanChen-MSFT)
  • ➕ Added files for avn, nodenv, and other managers that set the node.js version in reactive native project including testing (933fbb1b2b by @ramonmedel)
  • 👌 Support BigInt in Hermes (11bae63bb1 by @jpporto)
  • The old Hermes instrumented stats migrated to the new one (c37f719567 by @jpporto)
  • 0️⃣ Modified getDefaultJSExecutorFactory method (87cfd386cb by @KunalFarmah98)
  • 🚚 EventEmitter#emit now freezes the set of listeners before iterating over them, meaning listeners that are added or removed will not affect that iteration. (e5c5dcd9e2 by @yungsters)
  • ➕ Added File and Blob globals to eslint community config (d881c87231 by @shamilovtim)
  • C++ TurboModule methods can now use mixed types (3c569f546c by @appden)
  • ➕ Add useNativeDriver as a param for setValue for Animated (73191edb72 by @genkikondo)
  • ➕ Add Animated.Numeric Flow type (9eb7629ac6 by @motiz88)
  • ➕ Add LTI annotations to function params (c940eb0c49, e7a4dbcefc, d96744e277 by @pieterv)

  Android specific

  • Accessibility announcement for list and grid in FlatList (2d5882132f, 105a2397b6 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
  • Add READ_VOICEMAIL and WRITE_VOICEMAIL permissions to PermisionsAndroid library. (8a2be3e143 by @zolbooo)
  • Add POST_NOTIFICATIONS, NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES permission (0a854c7c8b by @vincent-paing)
  • 📦 Extend the React Native Gradle plugin to accept a config from package.json (5f3c5aa529 by @cortinico)
  • Ability to pass a Typeface object to ReactFontManager in addition to a font resource ID (e2dd2e2a6e by @thurn)
  • 📦 Option to enable lazyViewManager support with ViewManagerOnDemandReactPackage (d4b59cd9d0 by @javache)
  • 👌 Support for dataUri in form data (c663c0ec9d by @hetanthakkar1)
  • ➕ Add android-only prop documentation at the TextInput js level. (f2e23215ca)
  • ⚡️ Update template to gitignore android/app/.cxx (542d43df9d by @leotm)

  iOS specific

  • ➕ Add Mac Catalyst compatibility (can be enabled in Podfile) (2fb6a3393d by @Arkkeeper)
  • Enabled Hermes Intl (3fa3aeba93 by @neildhar)
  • HTTP Response headers added to the error object passed to JS code. (9eb2826f9b)
  • ➕ Add userInterfaceStyle to Alert to override user interface style for iOS 13+ (47bd78f64f by @luoxuhai)
  • ➕ Add function to cleanup codegen folders (71692889b0 by @cipolleschi)
  • Cocoapods function to add the CLANG_CXX_LANGUAGE_STANDARD to all the targets if needed (ca8174e15f by @f-meloni)
  • 👌 Support codegen from a single folder (05aaba9514 by @cipolleschi)
  • 👷 Run script phases tests in CI (c171a6e157 by @cipolleschi)

  🔄 Changed

  • ⬆️ Bump React Native Codegen to 0.70.0 (a22ceecc84 by @dmytrorykun, 2a274c1a08 by @cortinico, ce4246a05c by @dmytrorykun)
  • ⬆️ Upgrade RN CLI to v9.0.0, Metro to 0.72.1 (0c2fe96998 by @thymikee, 7e580b97bf by @kelset, c504d038c4 by @thymikee, f1d624823f by @kelset, 2b49ac6f8b by @thymikee)
  • Doc: fix minimum iOS version in requirements section (ec3c8f4380 by @Simon-TechForm)
  • ✂ Remove "Early" in Js error reporting pipeline (0646551d76 by @sshic)
  • ⚡️ Update @react-native/eslint-plugin-specs to 0.70.0 (d07fae9b23, afd76f69c7 by @dmytrorykun, ea8d8e2f49 by @cortinico)
  • 📦 Do not depend on hermes-engine NPM package anymore (78cd689f9a by @cortinico)
  • ➕ Add ability to pass ItemSeparatorComponent as React Element (5854b11bf9 by @retyui)
  • Hermes version bump. (0b4b7774e2 by @dmytrorykun, 8c682ddd59 by @dmytrorykun, eb6767813a by @cortinico)
  • Codemod {...null} to {} in xplat/js (f392ba6725 by @gkz)
  • 🛠 Fix TextInput dropping text when used as uncontrolled component with defaultValue (51f49ca998)
  • Suppress errors ahead of launch (67e12a19cb by @gkz)
  • Suppress missing 'this' annotations (6c563a507f by @pieterv)
  • Suppress missing annotations (66c6a75650 by @pieterv)
  • 👉 Use RuntimeConfig instead of VM Experiment Flag to set up the micro task queue. (753038cf34 by @fbmal7)
  • ⚡️ Update direct Metro dependencies to 0.72.0 (05dcebc211 by @kelset, 64788cc9fe by @huntie, bdeb4e0655 by @jacdebug, 894f652639 by @robhogan, 08ebc1cfd8 by @arushikesarwani94)
  • ⚡️ ECOSYSTEM.md: update Partner entries (5471afeebf by @Simek)
  • 🚚 Move ScrollView's contentOffset to common props (7c581f3d30 by @genkikondo)
  • ⬆️ Upgrade react-native-gradle-plugin to 0.70.2 (1518f838b7, 2176173dcc by @dmytrorykun)
  • ⚡️ Update a few metro deps as follow up from the commit from main (7c7ba1babd by @kelset)

  Android specific

  • ⬆️ Bump Android Gradle Plugin to 7.2.1 (53c8fc9488 by @leotm, c274456e5b by @dulmandakh)
  • 📇 Rename NativeModuleCallExceptionHandler to JSExceptionHandler for broader usage (b6f7689d70 by @sshic)
  • Simplify the Android.mk file in the App Template (7fb0bb40d2 by @cortinico)
  • 0️⃣ Make Hermes the default engine on Android (a7db8df207 by @cortinico)
  • Revamp touch event dispatching methods (089ff4555a by @sshic)
  • Demonstrating Dark Mode correctly in the StatusBar for the starter template App. (763dc52387 by @mrbrentkelly)
  • ⬆️ Bump Gradle to 7.5.0 (5c8186623a by @leotm, 99e7373dd2 by @dulmandakh)
  • 📦 Generalized the return type of ViewManagerOnDemandReactPackage.getViewManagerNames (51e029ec3c by @javache)
  • Don't assert on current activity when call startActivityForResult (bf6884dc90 by @sshic)
  • Adapt template to new architecture autolinking on Android (9ad7cbc3eb by @thymikee)
  • 🏗 Replaced reactnativeutilsjni with reactnativejni in the build process to reduce size (54a4fcbfdc by @SparshaSaha)
  • ⬆️ Bump Soloader to 0.10.4 (b9adf2db20 by @mikehardy)
  • ⚡️ Update the new app template to use CMake instead of Android.mk (dfd7f70eff by @cortinico)
  • 🔨 Refactored usage of kotlin plugin (be35c6dafb by @hurali97)
  • ⬆️ Bump Gradle to 7.5.1 (7a911e0730 by @AlexanderEggers)
  • 🛠 Fix error of release builds with Hermes enabled for Windows users (7fcdb9d9d8 by @JoseLion)

  iOS specific

  • Move and test Hermes setup from react_native_pods script into a dedicated file (468b86bd37 by @cipolleschi)
  • 👉 Use the correct operator to decide whether Hermes is enabled or not. (61488449b9 by @cipolleschi)
  • 0️⃣ Hermes is now the default engine on iOS. This setting is controlled via flags[:hermes_enabled] in the Podfile. (1115bc77db by @hramos)
  • 🚚 Move LocalPodspecPatch to dedicated file (8fe2b591c7 by @cipolleschi)
  • Move the modify_flags_for_new_architecture method to separate ruby file (71da21243c by @cipolleschi)
  • Refactoring part of the react_native_pods.rb script (4f732ba9ee, 7a2704455f by @cipolleschi)
  • When Hermes is enabled, it will use the same copy of JSI as React Native (340612a200 by @hramos)
  • Move use_flipper logic inside use_react_native and simplify the Flipper dependencies logic (0bd5239553 by @f-meloni)
  • Export flipper.rb script file (e07a7eb16b by @cipolleschi)
  • 🚚 Use outputDir as base directory for the codegen and remove the possibility to customize the intermediate path. The generated code requires specific paths in the #include directive. (e4d0153a67 by @cipolleschi)
  • 🔨 Refactor part of the codegen scripts and add tests. (0465c3fd10, 305a054865 by @cipolleschi)
  • 👍 CodeGen now supports the "all" library type. (6718500eaa by @cipolleschi)
  • Fix the test_ios_unit test (fdbe4719e2 by @cipolleschi)
  • ⚡️ Update Podfile to allow PRODUCTION=1 pod install (77752fc403 by @leotm)
  • 📚 Destruct use_reactnative parameters and ad ddocumentation (79a37e5a88 by @cipolleschi)
  • 🚚 Move codegen in separate files (7d069b2583 by @cipolleschi)
  • ⚠ Silence warning due to react-native internal details. (a4599225f5 by @cipolleschi)

  ✂ Removed

  • ✂ Remove previously deprecated Transform style-attribute props (7cfd77debd by @Zachinquarantine)
  • ✂ Remove deprecated isTVOS constant. (6075d64acf by @Zachinquarantine)
  • The diffs renames the required variable which was causing conflicts in names with Apple core SDK's (086c13dd5f by @arinjay)
  • ✂ Removed EventEmitter.prototype.removeSubscription method. (870755fa7e by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Remove deprecated removeListener methods (2596b2f695 by @matinzd)
  • ✂ Remove APPLETVOS variants from BUCk targets. (cf2e27c388 by @d16r)

  iOS specific

  • ✂ Remove emulateUnlessSupported (c73e021a4b by @ken0nek)
  • Remove USE_CODEGEN_DISCOVERY flag (2e720c3610 by @cipolleschi)

  🛠 Fixed

  • Throw JSINativeException from asHostObject (ef6ab3f5ca by @neildhar)
  • 🗄 Use new Babel parser instead of deprecated one (97291bfa31 by @Kerumen)
  • 🛠 Fixed a crash on deserialization of props when using 'px'/'em' units. (70788313fe by @nlutsenko)
  • 🛠 Fix nullability lost on readonly types in TurboModule specs (c006722e6c by @appden)
  • 🏁 Make tests pass for windows (9596bf045d by @cipolleschi)
  • 👻 Handle possible null exception on ReactEditText with AppCompat 1.4.0 (24a1f5c66c by @mikemasam)
  • 🛠 Fixed the disappearance of items when scrolling after zooming VirtualizedList. (13a72e0ccc by @islandryu)
  • 👌 Improved Flow type inference in Animated .interpolate() (7b86fa2b79 by @motiz88)
  • ➕ Add Jest mock for Vibration module (79529a1c77 by @hduprat)
  • 👍 Allow ReactInstrumentationTest to use custom JSIModules (eb2a83b0be by @christophpurrer)
  • 🏁 Working around Long paths limitation on Windows (883a93871c by @mganandraj)
  • 🛠 Fix eslint-plugin-specs prepack npm lifecycle hook now that we use npm 8 (8441c4a6f7 by @kelset)
  • Codegen should ignore .d.ts files (0f0d52067c by @tido64)
  • 0️⃣ Avoid full copy of large folly::dynamic objects in JSIExecutor#defaultTimeoutInvoker (521011d4cc by @christophpurrer)

  Android specific

  • 🛠 Fixed HorizontalScrollView API scrollToEnd causing NPE in side-effects. (e5ba6ab7b4 by @ryancat)
  • 🛠 Fix InputAccessoryView crash on Android (afa5df1764 by @hduprat)
  • Bring back non-rootview touch handling based on reactTag (8b837268b4 by @fkgozali)
  • 0️⃣ Make Text not focusable by default (8ced165e53 by @kacieb)
  • ⏪ Revert PR 33924 because of issues with TextInputs with numeric keyboard types not respecting the secureTextEntry prop (edb27e3aa1 by @charlesbdudley)
  • 🛠 Fix edge case when we enqueue a pending event to views on stopped surface (ea7c9f2ad9 by @ryancat)
  • 🛠 Fix a bug where the keyboard, once set as email, won't change back to default. (ec307e0167 by @larkox)
  • NPE in ReactEditText.setInputType when React Native is used with some versions of a AppCompat 1.4.x. (and possibly others) (92ebb298e2)
  • 🛠 Fix NPE on ReactEditText due to null mFabricViewStateManager (ba6bf5a3ce by @cortinico)
  • Scroll views would still receive scroll events when nested in a view with pointer-events: "none" (fced96bf52 by @javache)
  • 🛠 Fixed an edge case that event dispatching is failed after pre-allocation of a view and before the view is mounted. (a093fe5f2f by @ryancat)
  • Avoid crash by handling missing views in dispatchViewManagerCommand (ee1a191cb1 by @hsource)
  • 🏗 Pass react build dir to cmake (6ab7a99518 by @janicduplessis)
  • 🛠 Fix missing space in ReactPropertyException message (24560b6718 by @markv)
  • 🛠 Fix import path breakage (2e1e62f2bf by @aniketmathur)
  • When onEndReachedThreshold is set to 0 onEndReached function on VirtualizedList properly fires once the user scrolls to the bottom of the list. (b869680c11)
  • 🛠 Fix rendering of transparent borders in RN Android (a9659ce86d by @mdvacca)
  • 👻 Exception with Cannot load WebView message will initialising WebView (along with existing checks) (9e0d8696cc by @rachitmishra)
  • 🛠 Fix accessibilityState overwriting view's disabled state on Android (f35d18caa3 by @okwasniewski)
  • 🔌 Make sure *.ts files are considered for task avoidance in the Gradle Plugin (1a9fb6cb68 by @cortinico)
  • 🛠 Fix missing import on New Architecture build script in template (a22f30d2ce by @cortinico)

  iOS specific

  • 📦 Use NODE_BINARY from .xcode.env when running packager from Xcode (ff785dbcf5 by @elsurudo)
  • 🐛 Bug with error message formatting when bundle is missing (f501979f3d by @BenLorantfy)
  • 🛠 Fix the race condition when calling readAsDataURL after new Blob(blobs) (bd12e41188 by @wood1986)
  • 🛠 Fix the way the orientation events are published, to avoid false publish on orientation change when app changes state to inactive (7d42106d4c by @lbaldy)
  • 🛠 Fix sed error when installing glog (4a7e4b9ca6 by @alphashuro)
  • Don't validate ENTRY_FILE in react-native-xcode.sh (780fe80fca by @janicduplessis)
  • _scrollViewComponentView is set to RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView's superview (4e4b9e2111 by @dmytrorykun)
  • Use GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS to set FB_SONARKIT_ENABLED (77e6bff629 by @janicduplessis)
  • 🛠 Fix Hermes not being properly downloaded during pod install (d5e0659fcc by @cortinico)
  • Typo in the documation for the automaticallyAdjustKeyboardInsets prop (927b43d47c by @jeremybarbet)
  • 🗄 Deprecate iOS/tvOS SDK 11.0 support now that 12.4+ is required (f56d701e56 by @leotm)
  • 🛠 Fix blank spaces that don't recover as you scroll when in an RTL locale and e.nativeEvent.zoomScale is -1. (bc7b5c3011, 2f491bfa9f)
  • 🛠 Fixed paddingTop not being applied when using padding and paddingVertical in multiline textinput (2fb107c9a6 by @hetanthakkar1)
  • 🛠 Fixed the ability to pass the port to use for Metro when running react-native run-ios --port <port>. (7dc0b5153e by @lindboe)
  • 🛠 Fix missing imports (c78babac39)
  • 🛠 Fix React-bridging headers import not found (c4b51e8d76 by @Kudo)
  • 🛠 Fix Hermes executor not available when use_frameworks is enabled (88b7b640a7 by @Kudo)

  🔒 Security

  • ➕ Add GitHub token permissions for workflows (3da3d82320 by @varunsh-coder)
  • ⬆️ Bump RCT-Folly to 2021-07-22 (68f3a42fc7 by @luissantana)

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