React Native: Weekly Recap - Infrastructure Cleanup and Build Reliability
React Native merged 3 pull requests and 30 additional commits focusing on build system improvements, deprecated code removal, and infrastructure modernization. Key changes include fixing CocoaPods framework configurations, removing Paper renderer files, and streamlining performance logging.
Duration: PT2M37S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M37S
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Good morning, I'm your host with the React Native weekly recap for April 20th through 27th, 2026.
3 PRs merged, 30 additional commits this week.
**Infrastructure and Build Fixes**
Two critical PRs addressed iOS build reliability. PR 56592 fixed a missing React-featureflags header path in React-CoreModules under use_frameworks configuration, resolving build failures in version 0.83. PR 56593 enhanced CI by ensuring DynamicFrameworks jobs skip prebuilds and always build from source, preventing…
PR 56607 improved Hermes version handling by reading from version.properties instead of relying on branch names, fixing incorrect nightly usage on stable branch PRs.
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