React Native: Crash Fixes and DevTools Go Stable for 0.89 Release Candidate
React Native cut v0.89.0-rc.1 amid a stabilization push that fixes shutdown event crashes, turns on DevTools frame recording by default, and hardens snapshot testing and Swift packaging.
Duration: PT2M46S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-11-10T14:04:38Z
- Audio duration: PT2M46S
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Good morning, it's Tuesday, November 10th, 2026, and this is your React Native briefing.
The through line today is pre-release hardening, with shutdown crashes and packaging pitfalls fixed and developer tooling turned on by default as version zero eighty-nine release candidate one was cut.
First, native events are getting safer and simpler. Pull request 59830 fixes a mutex crash when an event is dispatched during process exit, which on iOS could abort an app being swiped away in the app switcher after the standard library destroyed the lock. Paired with that, pull request 59896 removes the native…
Second, debugging tools are catching up to the frontend. Pull request 59886 upgrades the DevTools backend to version eight to report Suspense boundaries for the new Suspense panel, landing together with frontend resyncs in pull requests 59883 and 59908 and a backport proposed for the zero eighty-nine branch.…
Third, test reliability and Apple packaging. Pull request 59895 runs snapshot tests in continuous integration mode so failed comparisons cannot rewrite baselines across retries, with Log Box snapshots refreshed in pull request 59893 after a layout fix in pull request 59797 for…
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