Change8

v0.81.2

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2 features🐛 2 fixes🔧 4 symbols

Summary

React Native 0.81.2 introduces Android performance optimizations via new build types and experimental feature flags, alongside critical fixes for iOS build scripts and autolinking.

Migration Steps

  1. Use the React Native Upgrade Helper to identify specific code changes required for version 0.81.2.

✨ New Features

  • Added a debugOptimized buildType for Android to improve development performance.
  • Introduced useNativeEqualsInNativeReadableArrayAndroid and useNativeTransformHelperAndroid experimental feature flags to address performance issues on Android with Reanimated and New Architecture.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Node scripts for prebuilt tarball extraction on iOS to support file paths containing whitespaces.
  • Updated iOS CocoaPods linking to use autolinking-generated react-native-config output for artifact and source generation.

🔧 Affected Symbols

debugOptimizeduseNativeEqualsInNativeReadableArrayAndroiduseNativeTransformHelperAndroidreact-native-config