React Native: v0.57.8 Release

PLEASE NOTE: When upgrading to this version, you will also need to upgrade both react and react-test-renderer to version "16.6.3" in your project's package.json.

Thanks to every one who contributed core as well as those who participated in the discussion around which commits were good candidates for cherry-picking. You may participate to the decision process for the next release here.

Added

• Fix: Add displayName to ActivityIndicator (#22417) (1d8744f)

Changed

• Switch: Improve Accessibility (83d1e85 by @yungsters)
• React sync for revisions 3ff2c7c...6bf5e85 (8d1d47a by @yungsters)

iOS specific

• Extend reason message for RCTFatalException (#22532) (ba50151 by @zackzachariah)

Removed

• Remove trailing slash from origin header if no port is specified (#22290) (f7e3def)

Fixed

• Fix text alpha bug (c43b741 by @necolas)
• fix possible NPE in StatusBarModule (1b169fc by @mdvacca)
• Fixes animated gifs incorrectly looping/not stopping on last frame (#21999) (95ef882 by @staufman)
• Fix ListEmptyComponent is rendered upside down when using inverted flag. (#21496) (30c2fb8 by @hyochans)
• Fix bug in comparison logic of object property (#22348) (692fc2e by @vreality64)
• Fix dispatch of OnLayout event for first render (3576819 by @mdvacca)
• KeyboardAvoidingView: Duration cannot be less then 10ms (#21858) (472e978)
• default hitSlop values to 0 (#22281) (274f5b8 by @Taylor123)

iOS specific

• Fixed for supporting mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction under iOS 10. (#22208) (79011d7 by @ifsnow)
• Use main.jsbundle in iOS template for production build (#22531) (8ba5d4c by @radeno)
• Use relative path for SCRIPTDIR (#22598) (0301a2e by @sunnylqm)
• Fix UIScrollView crash (b739c11 by @shergin)
• Avoid using -[UITextView setAttributedString:] while user is typing (#19809) (26775d5)

Security

• Bump ws package to 1.1.5 due to vulnerability issues (#21769) (d350f37 by @prog1dev)

You can find the whole changelog history over at react-native-releases.