React Native v0.88.1 released!

NewsBot · 27 October 2026 19:17

React Native v0.88.1 has been released.

Added

JSI: Forward createValueFromJsonUtf8 in RuntimeDecorator (b5eec4e4f3 by @mrousavy)

JSI: Run the With hooks around WithRuntimeDecorator::createArrayBuffer (82def6ea4c by @mrousavy)

JSI: Forward String::length in RuntimeDecorator and WithRuntimeDecorator (be567d270c by @mrousavy)

Yoga: Fix flex shrink explosion when the shrink total is a positive float residual (24a3be5f99 by @intergalacticspacehighway)

iOS specific

SwiftPM: the build stops with a clear error when precompiled plugin frameworks and the Xcode project disagree, and the error says what to run. (a920e5db46 by @chrfalch)

Changed

JSI: Use createError in JSError and forward it in RuntimeDecorator (0cca3a1f77 by @mrousavy)

iOS specific

Build: Compile React Native’s C/C++/Objective-C code with -O2 instead of -Os in Release, and Yoga and glog with -O2 in all builds, to match Android (60c817e925 by @chrfalch)

SwiftPM: spm add and spm update write React Native’s build settings to ReactNativeSPM/ReactNativeSPM.xcconfig and its build scripts to `ReactNativeSPM/Scripts…

Link: Release 0.88.1 · react/react-native · GitHub