React Native: Threading Fixes and Version Updates

Today we're diving into some crucial threading fixes that tackle race conditions in React Native's animation system, plus version updates including Flow 0.312.1 and the changelog for v0.85.3. Zeya Peng led the charge on some important stability improvements that every React Native developer will benefit from.

Duration: PT3M42S

Episode overview

This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.

It explains recent repository work in plain language.

  • Show: React Native
  • Published: 2026-05-06T10:00:58Z
  • Audio duration: PT3M42S

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Hey there, React Native developers! Welcome back to another episode of the React Native podcast. I'm your host, and I'm so glad you're here with me today, May 6th, 2026. Grab your coffee, settle in, and let's talk about some really interesting changes that happened in the React Native codebase recently.

Now, I have to say, today's activity might not seem flashy at first glance - we're looking at four commits with no merged pull requests - but trust me, there's some really solid engineering work happening here that's going to make your apps more stable and reliable.

Let me start with what I think is the most fascinating part of today's story, and it's all about threading. You know how I always say that the devil is in the details when it comes to React Native? Well, Zeya Peng just proved that beautifully with two commits that tackle a really tricky threading issue in the…

Here's the story: Picture this - you've got animations running in your app, and React Native is managing different parts of this on different threads. The main thread, the JavaScript thread, and the UI thread are all doing their jobs. But sometimes, when a surface stops - that's like when a screen unmounts - there…

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