React Native: v0.70.0-rc.3 Release

Changed

• Bump CLI to latest v9-alpha11 (7e580b97bf by @kelset)

Android specific

• Update the new app template to use CMake instead of Android.mk (dfd7f70eff by @cortinico)
• Refactored usage of kotlin plugin (be35c6dafb by @hurali97)
• Bump Gradle to 7.5.1 (7a911e0730 by @AlexanderEggers)
• Upgrade react-native-gradle-plugin to 0.70.2 (1518f838b7 by @dmitryrykun)

iOS specific

• Silence warning due to react-native internal details. (a4599225f5 by @cipolleschi)

Fixed

• Avoid full copy of large folly::dynamic objects in JSIExecutor#defaultTimeoutInvoker (521011d4cc by @christophpurrer)

Android specific

• Fix error of release builds with Hermes enabled for Windows users (7fcdb9d9d8 by @JoseLion)

• You can participate in the conversation on the status of this release in the working group.

• To help you upgrade to this version, you can use the upgrade helper ⚛️

• See changes from this release in the changelog PR

Help us testing 🧪

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To test it, run:

<!-- TODO Update with your version --> npx react-native init RN070RC3 --version 0.70.0-rc.3

And play around with the fresh app - let us know how it went by posting a comment in the working group discussion! Please specify with system you tried it on (ex. macos, windows).

Bonus points: It would be even better if you could swap things around: instead of using a fresh new app, use a more complex one!