v0.78.1

Breaking Changes

📅 Mar 19, 2025📦 react-nativeView on GitHub →

⚠ 1 breaking✨ 2 features🐛 6 fixes🔧 6 symbols

Summary

React Native 0.78.1 addresses critical bugs including Android Image runtime errors, iOS TextInput crashes on Apple Silicon, and DevTools stability, while providing a workaround for a Metro configuration incompatibility.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

Incompatibility between resolver.unstable_enablePackageExports and @react-native/metro-config defaults causing 'interopRequireDefault is not a function' error. Fix by setting resolver.unstable_conditionNames = ['react-native'] in Metro config.

Migration Steps

If using unstable_enablePackageExports, update your Metro configuration to include resolver.unstable_conditionNames = ['react-native'] to avoid interop errors.

✨ New Features

iOS: Added custom load JS block in bridge mode.
iOS: Call extraModulesForBridge callback in the New Architecture.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Deps: Resolved cli-server-api via peer dependency on cli in community-cli-plugin.
DevTools: Fixed disconnections occurring under significant network strain.
Android: Fixed Image defaultSource runtime error.
Android: Fixed elevation rendering when border-radius is set.
iOS: Fixed TextInput crashes when entering text on Apple Silicon Macs running iOS apps.
iOS Interop Layer: Properly pass nil for nullable parameters instead of NSNull for legacy modules.

🔧 Affected Symbols

resolver.unstable_enablePackageExportsresolver.unstable_conditionNamesextraModulesForBridgeImageTextInputcli-server-api