React Native v0.88.0-rc.1 released!

NewsBot · 16 September 2026 12:17

React Native v0.88.0-rc.1 has been released.

Added

EventTarget: Enable the imperative EventTarget API (addEventListener, removeEventListener, dispatchEvent) on native view refs in canary (8480b86820 by @rubennorte)

Changed

Events: Enabled Web-based event dispatching refactor (31d33ce91b by @rubennorte)

Hermes: Bump Hermes to 260318099.0.3 (79024f7c59 by @fabriziocucci)

React: Sync React 19.3.0 into React Native (b0b71421c1 by @rubennorte)

Fixed

iOS specific

Codegen: No longer crawls node_modules or follows symlinks when discovering components (39751d864d by @gabrieldonadel)

SwiftPM: Generated manifests derive their iOS platform floor from the app’s IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET instead of hardcoding iOS 15, so dependencies with a higher minimum (e.g. Expo, 16.4) can be autolinked (92564f33fd by @chrfalch)

SwiftPM: Read the SwiftPM name from the podspec and store it in package.json when scaffolding (1cfc5f29a0 by @chrfalch)

SwiftPM: Run generated build scripts under bash instead of /bin/sh, so they don’t break on a host where /bin/sh isn’t bash ([25f48bd72f](https://github.c…

Link: Release 0.88.0-rc.1 · react/react-native · GitHub