React Native: Umbrella Header Migration and iOS Reliability Fixes
Most activity centers on the C++ stable API migration to umbrella includes, with parallel fixes for iOS teardown crashes, Android image loading, and CocoaPods builds ahead of version 0.88 release candidate 3.
Duration: PT2M19S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-09-28T13:08:21Z
- Audio duration: PT2M19S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Monday, September 28th, 2026. You're listening to the React Native briefing.
The headline is consistency: nearly a dozen changes push forward the internal migration to stable C-plus-plus umbrella headers, with a smaller set of reliability and developer experience fixes around it.
First, the umbrella work. Headers across bridging, mounting, attributed string, image manager, native module core, J S Inspector modern, and C D P metrics are moving from direct leaf includes to public umbrellas like Renderer Core, Graphics, Timing, and Debug. Pull request 58707 is a good example — it fixes hard…
Second, runtime reliability. Pull request 58703 retires queued scheduler delegate work and retains active callbacks to close a use-after-free when an i O S host tears down. Pull request 58701 moves multi-source image disk cache checks off the U I thread on Android, upgrading the request asynchronously behind a…
Finally, developer-facing cleanup. Pull request 58700 removes the deprecated has T V preferred focus prop in favor of focusable and focus, and pull request 58705 stops the element inspector from remounting the whole app when toggling touchables, preserving navigation state.
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