react-native v0.65.0

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react-native v0.65.0 Release Notes

• Highlights

  • 🚀 Hermes 0.8.1. Please see the highlighted changes from its 0.8.0 and 0.8.1 release notes.
  • 📦 react-native-codegen version 0.0.7 is now needed as a devDependency in the package.json.

  💥 Breaking Changes

  iOS specific

  • Replace flipper_post_install with react_native_post_install hook. Will automatically detect if Flipper is enabled. (42dde12aac by @grabbou)

  ➕ Added

  • ➕ Add onPressIn & onPressOut props to Text (1d924549ca by @adrienharnay)
  • Stabilize RootTagContext. And temporarily export both unstable_RootTagContext and RootTagContext (9d489354ae by @nadiia)
  • Implement sendAccessibilityEvent in the React(Fabric/non-Fabric) renderer (99b7052248 by @JoshuaGross)
  • Re-added localeIdentifier to I18nManager constants (6b91ae73cd by @acoates-ms)
  • ➕ Add PressabilityPerformanceEventEmitter (c4c0065b00 by @JoshuaGross)
  • ➕ Added displayName to some RN contexts to make them more easy to differentiate when debugging. (68a476103a by @bvaughn)
  • ➕ Add displayName to TouchableHighlight and TouchableOpacity (c4e40b81c0 by @brunohkbx)
  • ➕ Added context to URL's error messages when the feature is not implemented (452240bafa by @Crash--)
  • ➕ Add a stickyHeaderHiddenOnScroll option to keep the sticky header hidden during scrolling down, and only slide in when scrolling up (ffba25c648)
  • ➕ Added debugName parameter to renderApplication to use as the display name for the React root tree (eeb36f4709 by @rubennorte)
  • ➕ Adding support for cancelOnBackground for UserFlow (0d4985900b by @dmitry-voronkevich)
  • ⏱ Introducing RuntimeScheduler module (eb13baf2a6 by @sammy-SC)
  • Roll out TurboModule Promise Async Dispatch (5c4f145e33 by @RSNara)

  Android specific

  • ➕ Add getRecommendedTimeoutMillis to AccessibilityInfo (d29a7e7a89 by @grgr-dkrk)
  • TalkBack now announces "unselected" when changing accessibilityState.selected to false. (73bc96ecf9 by @yungsters)
  • Fbjni version bump to 0.0.3 (24f9f75bf6 by @IvanKobzarev)
  • ➕ Add onFocus and onBlur for Pressable on Android. (cab4da7288)
  • Introduce API to allow applications to register TurboModuleManagerDelegates with ReactInstanceManager (eb7e89e286 by @RSNara)
  • ➕ Added convenience methods to simplify native Event classes and ease migrations (72d0ddc16f by @JoshuaGross)

  iOS specific

  • High contrast dynamic color options for dark and light mode. (4b9d9dda27 by @birkir)
  • ➕ Adds an ability to retrieve the notifications authorization status from JavaScript side. (b86e52a9ec)
  • ➕ Added reset method to RCTFabricSurface to help with reloads (53858ceaa3 by @PeteTheHeat)
  • 👍 Allow RCTRootView to be initialized with a frame (00bc09c8f7 by @appden)
  • 👍 Allow for configuring the NSURLSessionConfiguration (58444c74f5 by @hakonk)
  • 👉 Use react-native-codegen in iOS app template (e99b8bbb40 by @hramos)

  🔄 Changed

  • ⬆️ Bump Flipper + Bump hermes (#31872 by @Titozzz)
  • 🚚 Show warning when native module without addListener or removeListeners is passed to NativeEventEmitter (114be1d217 by @rubennorte)
  • Disable accessibilityState when the TouchableWithoutFeedback is disabled. (697164077c by @carloscuesta)
  • ⬆️ Upgraded react-devtools-core dependency to 4.12.0 (5a2693d78f by @bvaughn)
  • Set disabled accessibilityState when TouchableHighlight is disabled (f69e096bb4 by @Naturalclar)
  • ➕ Add checks and logs to for better error handling (ea1f9531f0)
  • 🚚 CreateAnimatedComponent: removed deprecated lifecycles usage (ba61267015 by @nadiia)
  • ✅ Hide caret in the TextInput during test runs. (397bfa6ad7 by @nadiia)
  • 👉 Use usePressability hook in TextInput (c4aa411ee3 by @nadiia)
  • 🚚 Keyboard no longer inherits from NativeEventEmitter, so it no longer implements removeAllListeners, and removeSubscription. (1049835b50 by @yungsters)
  • 🚚 AppState no longer inherits from NativeEventEmitter, so it no longer implements addListener, removeAllListeners, and removeSubscription. (6f22989e92 by @yungsters)
  • DevSettings no longer inherits from NativeEventEmitter (70cd569e7e by @yungsters)
  • LogBox will not initially collapse stack frames if every frame would be collapsed. (88a41f180c by @yungsters)
  • ⚡️ Update package name warning of deprecated modules (34e1b0ef98 by @Naturalclar)
  • ⚡️ Update react-native-codegen to 0.0.7 (cd6c9f3273 by @Naturalclar)
  • ⚡️ Update template devDependencies (652e3953f4 by @Bardiamist)
  • 0️⃣ Don't minify JS bundle by default when using hermes (1a67dda668 by @janicduplessis)
  • ⚠ Migrate warnings in index.js to point to new lean core repos (4421a64ac1 by @Naturalclar)
  • ⚡️ Update Flipper to 0.93.0 (06c33e9abe by @mweststrate)
  • ⚡️ Update Flipper to 0.91.1, fixed iOS build support for i386, use_flipper!() will no longer need custom overrides to build with XCode 12.5 (4246c75d0d by @mweststrate)
  • Find node on m1 via homebrew node managers (4d40b53c12 by @danilobuerger)
  • Clean up EventObjectPropertyType (0e46080847 by @RSNara)
  • Appearance.addChangeListener now returns an EventSubscription. (305b4253c2 by @yungsters)
  • Dimensions.addEventListener now returns an EventSubscription. (c47a03563d by @yungsters)
  • ⚡️ Updated react-native-community/cli to v6 (hence updating metro to 0.66) (0d32aef3aa by @Titozzz)
  • 🚀 Reflect Hermes release version from HermesBadge (c54aeccf1a by @Huxpro)

  Android specific

  • Modified NativeEventEmitter to also use the passed native module to report subscriptions on Android (f5502fbda9 by @rubennorte)
  • 0️⃣ RefreshControl.size prop changed its type to string, the valid values are: 'default' and 'large' (dd60414578, 65975dd28d by @mdvacca)
  • 🔀 TouchableNativeFeedback: sync disabled prop with accessibilityState (88f2356eed by @kyamashiro)
  • 📇 Rename hasActiveCatalystInstance to hasActiveReactInstance (dfa8eb0558)
  • ✅ Record latest error type in dev support (423453e105)
  • Passing accessibility state in button so it can announce disabled in talkback (5889cbebe3 by @huzaifaaak)
  • 🛠 Fixed issue that causes HorizontalScrollView to shift to the right when a TextInput is selected and keyboard pops up (b9b23e1ab1 by @JoshuaGross)
  • 🛠 Fixed jumpy RTL horizontal ScrollViews. If you have Android-specific JS hacks for handling RTL in ScrollViews, you probably can/probably want to remove them, because they should be reliable now and require fewer hacks. (fc032cd8d8 by @JoshuaGross)
  • ➕ Add a new check to avoid calling this method (2b708560fc)
  • Clipping subviews has been temporarily disabled in HorizontalScrollView in RTL mode. Minor/negligible perf impact. (da8ed6b625 by @JoshuaGross)
  • 💅 Change StatusBar style handling strategy (7324b92dc4)
  • Clean listeners during destroy of ReactContext (d79212120b by @mdvacca)
  • ⬆️ Bump buildToolsVersion to 30.0.2, (5d01110b53 by @dulmandakh)
  • 🎉 Initial replacement of jcenter with mavenCentral. (704dd2812f by @ShikaSD)
  • ✂ Remove developer tool guard for android (c7d28bca30)
  • ⬆️ Bump Android compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion from 29 to 30 (55c8833817, c7efd5b369 by @mdvacca)
  • ⬆️ Upgrade jsc-android to 250230.2.1 (341f061ce3 by @Kudo)
  • ⬆️ Bump Gradle to 6.9, Android Gradle Plugin to 4.2.1 (547b4c92e4 by @dulmandakh)
  • ⬆️ Bump gradle wrapper to 6.8.3 (7258afeea3 by @dulmandakh)
  • ⬆️ Bumping OkHttp from 4.9.0 to 4.9.1. (6caec9d91f by @gedeagas)
  • ⬆️ Bumping OkHttp from v3 to v4. (8207e97f91 by @arazabishov)
  • ⚡️ Update Okhttp to version 3.14.19 (6bfd89d277 by @LukasFPV)
  • ⬆️ Bump Fresco to 2.5.0 (8fa8934011 by @dulmandakh)
  • ⬆️ Bump Fresco to 2.3.0 (280f524b49 by @dulmandakh)

  iOS specific

  • Give RCTNetworking handler provider block RCTModuleRegistry (4c5182c1cc by @RSNara)
  • Give RCTImageURLLoader's loader/decoder provider blocks RCTModuleRegistry (af6bcfa3ab by @RSNara)
  • 👉 Make RCTTurboModule getTurboModule: required (e0b8f5080f by @RSNara)
  • ⚡️ Update React.podspec to require cocoapods >= 1.10.1 (b50b7e3a19 by @sunnylqm)
  • 🛠 Fix glog pod install with Xcode 12 (8a5fd8ea95 by @dulmandakh)
  • Only show Dev Menu on shake if RN view is visible (7186c4de4f by @PeteTheHeat)
  • progressViewOffset prop of RefreshControl and VirtualizedList now works on iOS (310a6bcf4b by @davidbiedenbach)
  • Roll out TurboModule block copy (5275895af5 by @RSNara)
  • ➕ Add instructions to template/ios/Podfile for enabling hermes (a326a30e32 by @SConaway)

  🗄 Deprecated

  • 🚚 EventEmitter#removeSubscription is now deprecated. (cb6cbd12f8 by @yungsters)
  • 🗄 It is now deprecated to pass a constructor argument to EventEmitter(...). (14f7a2b707 by @yungsters)
  • 🚚 Deprecate AccessibilityInfo.removeEventListener. (003d63d6e5 by @yungsters)
  • 🚚 Deprecate Linking.removeEventListener. Instead, call remove() on the subscription returned by Linking.addEventListener. (6d1aca806c, 035718ba97 by @yungsters)
  • 🚚 Old Native method to create ScrollEvent has been deprecated and will be removed at some point in the (distant) future (62f0dee235 by @JoshuaGross)

  Android specific

  • 🗄 Deprecate NativeModule.onCatalystInstanceDestroy() for NativeModule.invalidate() (18c8417290 by @RSNara)
  • 🗄 Mark hasActiveCatalystInstance() as Deprecated (1b50722a7e)

  ✂ Removed

  • Stabilize RootTagContext (9b98edcd01 by @nadiia)
  • ✂ Removed getNode() from animated component refs. (b914153286 by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Remove legacy context API usage in AppContainer (17be3a0032 by @nadiia)
  • ✂ Removed AccessibilityInfo.fetch, use isScreenReaderEnabled instead. (d831134d51 by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Remove unused VR-only props (95f7c791c5 by @Simek)
  • ✂ Removed RCTDeviceEventEmitter.sharedSubscribers. (3af0c84aa5 by @yungsters)
  • 🚚 Moved ScrollResponder.Mixin methods into ScrollView to Remove ScrollResponder.js (099f67cf8a by @kacieb)
  • 🚚 NativeEventEmitter no longer inherits from EventEmitter, so it no longer implements removeListener and removeSubscription. Instead, use the remove() method on the subscription object returned by addListener. (d39643b9de by @yungsters)
  • RCTDeviceEventEmitter no longer throws for StatusBar, Keyboard, and AppState events. However, you are still recommended to use the more appropriate modules for listening to these events. (c8c975f0d7 by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Removed second optional argument of NativeEventEmitter constructor (f5f47879b8 by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Removed warning on Android for setTimeout with delays greater than 1 minute. (480dabd665 by @yungsters)
  • Removed Touchable.TOUCH_TARGET_DEBUG property. (ef765d423c by @yungsters)

  Android specific

  • ✂ Remove okhttp3 proguard rules (b4c9f13fe7 by @doniwinata0309)
  • ✂ Remove filter pills (5cf4ab8dd2 by @suminkimm)
  • ✂ Remove ReactFragmentActivity class. (2798e7172b by @dulmandakh)
  • ✂ Remove jcenter (70da640946 by @dulmandakh)

  iOS specific

  • ✂ Removed event methods except addListener from Networking (a81b7d18fa by @yungsters)
  • ✂ Delete deprecated "live reloading" setting (b512beb0c4 by @PeteTheHeat)
  • ✂ Remove iOS10/tvOS10 support (f2c6279ca4, a1d626739d by @PeteTheHeat)
  • ✂ Remove iOS10/tvOS10 support from remaining podfiles (f0faa7843c by @PeteTheHeat)
  • ✂ Delete RCTTurboModuleManagerDelegate getTurboModule:initParams (c4c34a1237 by @RSNara)

  🛠 Fixed

  • Don't disconnect DevTools WebSocket connection on Cmd+D (60a18c138c by @bvaughn)
  • For native components that accept color arrays, invalid elements will now fallback to transparent with a console error. (bb6cd56fae by @yungsters)
  • 🛠 Fixes usage of std::thread in runtime executor (75d9ba733f by @asklar)
  • 🛠 Fix sticky header not sticking on first render in ScrollView (921c9ff165 by @kacieb)
  • 🛠 Fix ScrollView getInnerViewNode and getInnerViewRef ref methods (6e36d046a3 by @vshab)
  • 🛠 Fix stalling UI due to a bug in KeyboardAvoidingView (67309277fe by @sammy-SC)
  • Avoid eating clicks/taps into ScrollView when using physical keyboard (6d2a527984 by @NickGerleman)
  • 🛠 Fix nested FlatList not firing onScrollDragEnd and onMomentum methods (46be292f67 by @kacieb)
  • 🛠 Fix race condition in Debug Inspector shutdown (d021000b9e by @MartinSherburn)
  • 🛠 Fixes layout of nodes with YGDisplayNone and YGPositionTypeAbsolute (b15f8a30e7 by @rozele)
  • 🛠 Fix changes of View visibilities (4076293aa1 by @mdvacca)
  • 🛠 Fix: save connection url as class variable (8facc865ab by @sirpy)
  • 🛠 Fix Hermes build on folly version 2021.04.26.00 (8eceee744e by @PeteTheHeat)
  • 🛠 Fix disabled handling for Text (33ff4445dc by @lunaleaps)
  • 🛠 Fix disabled prop not disabling onPress for voice assistant (1c7d9c8046 by @kacieb)
  • 🛠 Fix unsafe cast and detect overflow in MapBuffer. (e69f1c9f50)
  • 🛠 Fix(deps): bump metro to 0.66.2 + dedup (e40f58272d by @Titozzz)

  Android specific

  • 🛠 Fixed crash when using style borderRadius: any with backgroundColor: null (42b6e6682c)
  • 🛠 Fix font weight numeric values (3827ca6171 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
  • 🛠 Fix wrong ripple color on Switch component (1b0683533a by @rnike)
  • 🛠 Fix Selected State does not announce when TextInput Component selected on Android (7ee2acc6c8 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
  • 🛠 Fix layout bug in ReactTextView. (dec1b6ba15)
  • 🛠 Fix source build on Windows machines vol. 2 (c37d49492b)
  • 👉 Make NativeModules immediately initializable (2bf866e401 by @RSNara)
  • ⏪ Restore android_hyphenationFrequency on Text. (1433ed6333 by @yungsters)
  • ✅ Display the testID as the resource-id for black-box testing frameworks (381fb395ad by @jdeff)
  • 🛠 Fix support for blobs larger than 64 KB (f00e348ca7 by @tomekzaw)
  • 🛠 Fix building React Android on Windows. (5dc15222b2)
  • 🛠 Fix race-condition on the initialization of ReactRootViews (74a756846f by @mdvacca)

  iOS specific

  • Animated images without loop no longer animate twice (17aa1e320e by @comvenger-brandon)
  • 👍 Allow PlatformColor to work with border colors (c974cbff04 by @danilobuerger)
  • 0️⃣ RCTSurfaceHostingView default background color is now consistent with RCTRootView (f31497354b by @fkgozali)
  • Invalidate TurboModules with infra-generated method queues on their method queues (497eb578ab by @RSNara)
  • 🛠 Fix RefreshControl layout when removed from window (e67811e7a6 by @janicduplessis)
  • Tab Accessibility Role had incorrect localization string (80a10953f9 by @adkenyon)
  • ⚡️ Incorrect ScrollView offset on update (a4526bcc3f by @rnike)
  • Modal's onDismiss prop will now be called successfully. (d85d5d2e19 by @kkoudev)
  • 🛠 Fix DatePicker sizing issue (84d55868e8 by @sammy-SC)
  • First press not working after pull to refresh (c4950610e4 by @rnike)
  • 🛠 Fix Codegen silently failing when Yarn is not installed, or when Yarn v2 is active. (07e4953514 by @ivanmoskalev)
  • 👉 Make codegen more reliable on iOS (12fccdeea3 by @janicduplessis)
  • 🛠 Fix crash in RCTCoreModulesClassProvider during quit (2f62c2892d by @appden)
  • 🛠 Fix an issue calling stopSurface in bridgeless mode before surface is started (81096901a8)
  • 🚚 Move hermes to a separate podspec (0959ff36d1 by @janicduplessis)
  • 🛠 Fix cli bundle platform for Mac Catalyst in react-native-xcode.sh (b496a531e0 by @robertying)
  • 🛠 Fix prefetchImageWithMetadata redbox(f27e305056 by @p-sun)
  • Roll out RCTNetworking extraneous NativeModule call removal (0e0d2e84f5 by @RSNara)
  • 🛠 Fix Hermes + no Flipper build on Xcode 12.5 (b9243e00e3 by @PeteTheHeat)
  • 🛠 Fix(hermes): fixed hermes build on iOS (59abb5f378 by @Titozzz)
  • 🛠 Fix builds on Xcode 12.5 (36b58a824e by @PeteTheHeat)
  • 🛠 Fix running React Native project with Xcode 12 in Release on iPhone Simulator (fdcacd7f76 by @grabbou)

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