React Native 0.67 introduces new features like SnapToAlignment for Android ScrollView and UIAccessibilityTraitUpdatesFrequently for iOS ProgressBar. It improves font handling on iOS and updates dependencies. Several bugs were fixed, including TextInput issues on Android and Image defaultSource on iOS. The release also removes some deprecated APIs and unused files to streamline the codebase.

The update includes various performance optimizations and developer experience improvements across both Android and iOS platforms. Notable changes include upgrading Gradle and Kotlin versions for Android, and reducing the delay when the packager can't be reached on iOS.

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v0.67 on GitHub (npm)

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Release blog post

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Changelog

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v0.67.5

🚨 IMPORTANT: This is an exceptional release on an unsupported version. We recommend you upgrade to one of the supported versions, listed here.

Fixed

• Force dependencies resolution to minor series for 0.67 (9f2acda1b8 by @cortinico)

v0.67.4

Fixed

Android specific

• Added a null check to native.value in Switch to fix https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/32594 (8d50bf1133 by @jonathanmos)

v0.67.3

Fixed

Android specific

• Text with adjustsFontSizeToFit changes the text layout infinitely (c1db41f060)

iOS specific

• Fix a broken input for the Korean alphabet in TextInput (1a83dc36ce by @bernard-kms)

v0.67.2

Fixed

• Fix error "mockModal is not a function" (507b05f4c0 by @AntoineDoubovetzky)

Android specific

• Fix potential crash if ReactRootView does not have insets attached. (6239e2f5ce by @enahum)
• Upgrading OkHttp from 4.9.1 to 4.9.2 to fix CVE-2021-0341. (e896d21 by @owjsub)

iOS specific

• Fix Time.h patch not being applied when running pod install --project-directory=ios (60cef850bd by @tido64)
• Find-node.sh now respects .nvmrc (35bcf934b1 by @igrayson)

v0.67.1

Fixed

Android specific

• Do not remove libjscexecutor.so from release builds (574a773f8f by @cortinico)

iOS specific

• Remove alert's window when call to hide. (a46a99e120 by @asafkorem)

v0.67.0

Added

Android specific

• Add ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION permission to PermisionsAndroid library. (79db483568 by @Skrilltrax)
• Implement SnapToAlignment in ReactScrollView (e774c037bc), ReactScrollViewManager (c6e5640e87), ReactHorizontalScrollView (b12256394e), ReactHorizontalScrollViewManager (deec1db9fd) and update ScrollView.js (a54cfb9e57) and reach parity with iOS (04184ef851) by @mdvacca
• Show Redbox for C++ errors. (d6c879edba by @sota000)
• Added an experimental touch dispatch path (a2feaeb5f1 by @ShikaSD)

iOS specific

• Added cancelButtonTintColor prop for ActionSheetIOS to change only the text color of the cancel button (01856633a1 by @nomi9995)
• Added LSApplicationQueriesSchemes in info.plist with entries tel, telprompt, http, fb, geo (b26f277262 by @utkarsh-dixit)
• Add UIAccessibilityTraitUpdatesFrequently to progressBar role (1a42bd6e97 by @jimmy623)
• Add asdf-vm support in find-node.sh (3e7c310b1d by @pastleo)

Changed

• ImageBackground now respects imageStyle width and height (dbd5c3d8e5 by @Naturalclar)
• Rename deprecated Keyboard.removeEventListener to Keyboard.removeListener. (8880c09076 by @yungsters)
• Update Modal's mock to not render its children when it is not visible (ec614c16b3 by @AntoineDoubovetzky)
• Upgraded react-devtools-core dependency to 4.19.1 (356236471a by @jstejada)
• React-native/normalize-color now supports Node.js (65e58f26e1 by @yungsters)
• Updated to Contributor Covenant v2.1 (19f8d2f7da)

Android specific

• Hermes initialization will no longer need an explicit configuration. (a40f973f58 by @Ashoat)
• Setting overflow: scroll in View component style will clip the children in the View container (93beb83abe by @ryancat)
• Native views backing Animated.View (w/ JavaScript-driven animations) will no longer be flattened; this should be a transparent change. (4fdbc44ab5 by @yungsters)
• Use new Locale API on Android 11 (API 30)+ (b7c023a8c1)
• Changed react.gradle detectCliPath function logic for cliPath case (ce51b62494 by @vitalyiegorov)
• Remove "high" and "balanced" as values for android_hyphenationFrequency on Text (a0d30b848a)
• Bump Gradle version to 7.2, Bump Kotlin version to 1.5.31 (9ae3367431 by @svbutko)
• Move mavenCentral repo below local paths (046b02628d by @friederbluemle)

iOS specific

• Optimized font handling for iOS (4ac42d88ef by @Adlai-Holler)
• Remove iOS 11 version check as minimum deployment is iOS 11 (398595e074 by @ken0nek)
• Don't hang app for 60s if packager can't be reached, changed to 10s (c0e04460f5 by @radex)

Removed

• Removed unnecessary global variable GLOBAL. (a101fc768c by @rubennorte)
• Removed unused files: StaticContainer.react.js, ensurePositiveDelayProps.js, InteractionMixin.js, queryLayoutByID.js (64aa1e5ffe by @ecreeth)

Android specific

• Remove DatePickerAndroid from react-native. (7a770526c6 by @andresantonioriveros)

iOS specific

Fixed

• Update metro config language to blockList (7923804c28 by @rh389)
• Ignores global npm prefix (6334ac35ac by @redreceipt)
• Support Animated.ValueXY when validating Animated.event. (27dd2ecb70 by @javache)
• Add a function getIgnorePatterns in LogBoxData.js for tests or other usecases. (a950634424)

Android specific

• TextInput Drawable to avoid Null Pointer Exception RuntimeError https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/17530 (254493e1fb by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
• Nested Text Android onPress does not work with last character (132d1d00f8 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
• Fix non selectable Text in FlatList (c360b1d92b by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
• Set textBreakStrategy default to be 'highQuality' (3b2d541989)
• Fix error handling when loading JSC or Hermes (d839b24b06 by @iqqmuT)
• Fix encoding for gradlew.bat files (ab2bdee735 by @yungsters)
• Fix hermesFlags not working with multiple variants (91adb761cf by @grit96)
• ScrollTo API in ScrollView will check the actual scroll position before setting the scroll state (1a9e2d5d55 by @ryancat)
• Compute Android Notch in keyboardDidShow height calculation API 28+ (8bef3b1f11 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
• Fix currentActivity being null when launching Redbox (f4fdf4b55e)
• When sending OS intents, always set "FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK" flag (required by OS). (04fe3ed80d by @Krizzu)
• Fix missing WebView provider crash in ForwardingCookieHandler (d40cb0e1b0 by @RodolfoGS)
• Fix keyboardDismissMode="on-drag" on Android (7edf9274cf by @janicduplessis)
• Fixed alignItems: baseline for elements on Android (1acf334614)
• OnKeyPress event not fired with numeric keys (ee3e71f536 by @fabriziobertoglio1987)
• Exclude unused .so files for reduce android .apk and .aab (6f126740fa by @enniel)

iOS specific

• Fixed an edge case when scroll to item/index is called without animation, the offset position is not updated. This caused the measurement of the position to be wrong. (55392f65a6 by @ryancat)
• Fixed the issue when moving cursor in multi-line TextInput. (22801870f0 by @xiankuncheng)
• Fix NSInvalidArgumentException for invalid font family names. (5683932862 by @yungsters)
• Fix Image defaultSource not showing on iOS (900210cacc by @cristianoccazinsp)
• Warn if Rosetta2 is being used (x86_64 on arm64) (51bf557948 by @barbieri)
• Source map path for schemes containing whitespaces (f3fe7a0fb5 by @andersonvom)
• Fix build error after running pod install with --project-directory=ios (ef5ff3e055 by @sonicdoe)
• Fixed inability to build apps when gflags is installed (ab8dbdf663 by @KDederichs)

Security

• Avoiding logging root view params outside of dev / debug mode builds (e612d3a116 by @sterlingwes)