React Native: Weekly Recap - Platform Stability and Feature Flag Cleanup
This week focused on platform stability improvements and feature flag consolidation, with 30 commits addressing critical Android ScrollView crashes, iOS border radius fixes, and the removal of several experimental flags that have completed rollout.
Duration: PT2M46S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-05-24T10:00:53Z
- Audio duration: PT2M46S
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Good morning. This is your React Native weekly recap for May 17th through 24th, 2026.
Zero pull requests were merged this week, with 30 additional commits landing directly to the main branch.
Starting with critical fixes, the team addressed a long-standing Android ScrollView crash that could occur during multi-touch interactions. The IllegalArgumentException in onTouchEvent has been resolved across ReactScrollView, ReactHorizontalScrollView, and ReactNestedScrollView components. This mirrors existing…
iOS developers will benefit from a fix to percentage-based border radius calculations. The issue occurred when the border radius checking logic failed to account for circular corners, causing rendering problems in certain layout scenarios.
Several feature flags reached the end of their experimental phase this week. The useTurboModules flag has been permanently removed, as TurboModules are now always enabled. The enableEagerMainQueueModulesOnIOS flag is also gone, making eager main-queue module setup the default behavior. Additionally, the…
Infrastructure improvements include a fix for CocoaPods installations in paths containing Unicode characters. This addresses build failures that…