React Native v0.86.3 released!

NewsBot · 24 August 2026 18:17

React Native v0.86.3 has been released.

Hermes: Bump hermes-v1 to 250829098.0.17 (3fd71f07c3 by @cipolleschi)

EventEmitter: Fix use-after-free data race in EventEmitter.cpp (fdb26edfe7)

Modal: Fix parentNode/parentElement returning the document instead of the containing element for <Modal> and other nested root host views, which severed capture/bubble event propagation to ancestors rendered above them (6e3f0e8f9f by rubennorte)

Cocoapods: Make Podfile.lock SPEC CHECKSUMS deterministic across machines by sorting Dir.glob results in Yoga.podspec and using a dynamically computed Pods-relative path in hermes-engine.podspec (6e3f0e8f9f by IsaacIsrael)

Runtime: Fix ConcurrentModificationException when getInitialURL re-enters during onHostResume (20d04aefa1 by @nickcernera)

Font: Custom fonts with an explicit fontWeight no longer render at the heaviest weight on the New Architecture (918fb15bfe by @jensdev)

Hermes dSYMS:

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Hermes V1 dSYMS:

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Link: Release 0.86.3 · react/react-native · GitHub