v0.79.0-rc.2

📅 Mar 18, 2025📦 react-nativeView on GitHub →

🐛 3 fixes🔧 4 symbols

Summary

This release updates the Codegen engine to use @babel/core and provides critical stability fixes for iOS, including a fix for TextInput crashes on Apple Silicon Macs.

Migration Steps

Use the React Native Upgrade Helper to identify specific file changes for version 0.79.0-rc.2.

🐛 Bug Fixes

iOS: Enable use of multiple RCTAppDependencyProvider instances in Codegen.
iOS: Call RCTInitializeUIKitProxies before bridge creation to ensure proper runtime initialization.
iOS: Fix TextInput crashes occurring when entering text while running as an iOS app on Apple Silicon Macs.

🔧 Affected Symbols

RCTAppDependencyProviderRCTInitializeUIKitProxiesTextInputCodegen