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0.81.1

Added

iOS specific

• Prebuild: Added setting SWIFT_ENABLE_EXPLICIT_MODULES=NO when using precompiled to support Xcode 26 (939a75b5ce by @​chrfalch)

Fixed

• Infra: Add missing Babel dependencies (bf2c3af93b by @​tido64)
• Accessibility: fix aria-label on TextInput (6965d57e75 by @​mdjastrzebski)

iOS specific

• TextInput: Setting maxLength to 0 in TextInput now correctly blocks typing (c5956da8c0 by @​riteshshukla04)
• Switch: Fix Switch layout to work with iOS 26 (ba51aeaa90 by @​cipolleschi)
• C++: Fix import RuntimeExecutor.h with USE_FRAMEWORKS (dacd8f26fd by @​sharifhh)
• Infra: Fix scripts for paths containing whitespaces (94623ca8ec by @​kitten)
• Prebuild: Fixed how we copy and build the Symbols folder when precompiling ReactNativeDependencies (a843119ff1 by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fixed wrong jsi symbols in use when using React.xcframework (8a2e7efe01 by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fixed copying bundles correctly to xcframeworks when precompiling ReactNativeDependencies.xcframework (e3adf47214 by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Aligned Symbols folder in React.xcframework symbols with ReactNativeDependencies.xcframework symbols. (8c444f773a by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fix "file exists" error in ReactNativeDependencies.podspec (4c570b5d31 by @​vonovak)
• Prebuild: added explicit handling of ReactCodegen (6526a98d68 by @​cipolleschi)

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v0.81.1

Added

iOS specific

• Prebuild: Added setting SWIFT_ENABLE_EXPLICIT_MODULES=NO when using precompiled to support Xcode 26 (939a75b5ce by @​chrfalch)

Fixed

• Infra: Add missing Babel dependencies (bf2c3af93b by @​tido64)
• Accessibility: fix aria-label on TextInput (6965d57e75 by @​mdjastrzebski)

iOS specific

• TextInput: Setting maxLength to 0 in TextInput now correctly blocks typing (c5956da8c0 by @​riteshshukla04)
• Switch: Fix Switch layout to work with iOS 26 (ba51aeaa90 by @​cipolleschi)
• C++: Fix import RuntimeExecutor.h with USE_FRAMEWORKS (dacd8f26fd by @​sharifhh)
• Infra: Fix scripts for paths containing whitespaces (94623ca8ec by @​kitten)
• Prebuild: Fixed how we copy and build the Symbols folder when precompiling ReactNativeDependencies (a843119ff1 by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fixed wrong jsi symbols in use when using React.xcframework (8a2e7efe01 by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fixed copying bundles correctly to xcframeworks when precompiling ReactNativeDependencies.xcframework (e3adf47214 by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Aligned Symbols folder in React.xcframework symbols with ReactNativeDependencies.xcframework symbols. (8c444f773a by @​chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fix "file exists" error in ReactNativeDependencies.podspec (4c570b5d31 by @​vonovak)
• Prebuild: added explicit handling of ReactCodegen (6526a98d68 by @​cipolleschi)

v0.81.0

Breaking

• APIs: All react-native/Libraries/BugReporting APIs have been removed (9d4d8dcb02 by @​huntie)
• APIs: Add public JS API breaking change detection under yarn diff-api-snapshot script. (6b40f35032 by @​coado)
• APIs: Community CLI users: user-defined resolver.resolveRequest and serializer.getModulesRunBeforeMainModule Metro config now takes precedence over CLI defaults (fe2bcbf4ba by @​robhogan)
• Error Handling: Improve messaging and add error stack trace for uncaught throws. (5ba0e1f97a by @​vzaidman)
• Flow: The react-native package no longer ships with the flow directory (38acb4c074 by @​huntie)
• Node: Minimum Node version is now bumped to Node.js 22.14.0 (df39eadc03 by @​huntie)
• View: View no longer sets any default accessibility props, which should not result in visible changes in behaviour but may affect snapshot tests. (039a333df5 by @​javache)
• View: Upgrade View component to React 19. (eedd60b9e6 by @​EvanBacon)

Android specific

• APIs: Cleanup and internalize FpsDebugFrameCallback (cf6569bc18 by @​cortinico)
• CMake: Correctly propagate RN_SERIALIZABLE_STATE to 3rd party CMake targets. Users with custom CMake and C++ code should update to use target_compile_reactnative_options inside their CMakeLists.txt files.(c059ae1b77 by @​cortinico)
• FabricUIManager: Remove FabricUIManager.measure overload which accepts attachment positions (2ba86caf18 by @​NickGerleman)
• Kotlin: Migrate ViewManagerInterfaces to kotlin. Some types in code generated ViewManagerInterfaces might differ. e.g. this will start enforcing nullability in parameters of viewManagerInterface methods (e.g. String commands parameters are not nullable, view params are not nullable in any method, etc) (76ff1aa5c6 by @​mdvacca)
• Kotlin: Migrate com.facebook.react.ReactDelegate to Kotlin. Some users implementing this class in Kotlin could have breakages. (50ea5b4380 by @​mateoguzmana)
• Kotlin: Convert to Kotlin and internalize MountingManager (f33fdca876 by @​cortinico)

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