React Native: Performance Tracking & Release Prep
The React Native team is gearing up for version 0.86 with package bumps across the board, while adding powerful new performance tracking capabilities to the DevTools. Plus, several important crash fixes landed, including text measurement issues and layout edge cases that were affecting real-world apps.
Duration: PT4M26S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-03-10T10:03:39Z
- Audio duration: PT4M26S
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Hey there, React Native developers! Welcome back to another episode. I'm your host, and wow - March 10th brought us some exciting developments from the React Native core team. Grab your coffee because we've got some really cool performance improvements and solid bug fixes to dive into today.
So here's what's happening in the React Native world - the team is clearly in release mode! Alan Lee kicked things off with a massive package version bump, updating everything to 0.86.0-main after cutting the 0.85-stable branch. When I say massive, I mean it - this touched 28 different package files. It's one of…
But the real star of today's show is the performance tracking story, and oh boy, does it have some drama! Rubén Norte originally added some fantastic new performance instrumentation for the React Native renderer - think of it as giving you X-ray vision into what your app is actually doing under the hood. The feature…
Here's where it gets interesting though - the feature got reverted by Donald Webster, then immediately re-landed again! This kind of back-and-forth usually happens when there's a tricky integration issue that needs a quick fix. The end result is really exciting: you now…
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