React Native v0.88.0-rc.3 released!

NewsBot · 28 September 2026 15:18

React Native v0.88.0-rc.3 has been released.

Changed

Hermes: Bump to 260318099.0.4, which avoids a quadratic reserve() in ConsecutiveStringStorage during lazy compilation (993be7d6c6 by @fabriziocucci)

Fixed

Metro: Fix the package-exports warning caused by react-native/virtualized-lists importing an unexported React Native subpath (a506ed66cc by @giaBaoJS)

Android specific

SurfaceMountingManager: Bump androidx.collection to 1.4.4 to fix view registry entries getting lost (d6a5f159c6 by @pawicao)

iOS specific

SwiftPM: Stop autolinking from recreating library package roots on every sync, which broke Xcode builds of apps using libraries that ship their own Package.swift (97cc934dc7 by @chrfalch)

Hermes V1 dSYMS:

Debug

Release

ReactNativeDependencies dSYMs:

Debug

Release

ReactNative Core dSYMs:

[Debug](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/facebook/react/react-nat…

Link: Release 0.88.0-rc.3 · react/react-native · GitHub