React Native: Weekly Recap - Critical Bug Fixes and Infrastructure Cleanup
This week brought 30 commits focused on resolving critical Android FormData upload issues and extensive C++ API cleanup. Key fixes addressed broken file uploads in debug builds and iOS keyboard focus regressions.
Duration: PT2M21S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M21S
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Good morning. This is your React Native weekly recap for April 6th through 13th, 2026.
Zero pull requests were merged this week, but 30 additional commits were pushed to the main repository, focusing primarily on bug fixes and infrastructure improvements.
**Critical Fixes**
The most significant fix this week addressed broken FormData uploads in Android debug builds. Issue 56404 was resolved by fixing a problem where multipart body streams were being prematurely drained during network requests. The solution involved checking each multipart child for one-shot streams before processing.
iOS developers received a critical fix for keyboard focus issues introduced in React Native 0.83. The problem caused TextInput components to lose focus unexpectedly and keyboards to reopen when dismissing native overlays like UIMenus. The fix properly gates the canBecomeFirstResponder behavior behind the…
IPv6 support was improved for iOS development with fixes to both packager connection and inspector host parsing. This resolves crashes when using IPv6 addresses for Metro bundler connections.
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