React Native: v0.81.1 Release

Added

iOS specific

• Prebuild: Added setting SWIFT_ENABLE_EXPLICIT_MODULES=NO when using precompiled to support Xcode 26 (939a75b5ce by @chrfalch)

Fixed

• Infra: Add missing Babel dependencies (bf2c3af93b by @tido64)
• Accessibility: fix aria-label on TextInput (6965d57e75 by @mdjastrzebski)

iOS specific

• TextInput: Setting maxLength to 0 in TextInput now correctly blocks typing (c5956da8c0 by @riteshshukla04)
• Switch: Fix Switch layout to work with iOS 26 (ba51aeaa90 by @cipolleschi)
• C++: Fix import RuntimeExecutor.h with USE_FRAMEWORKS (dacd8f26fd by @sharifhh)
• Infra: Fix scripts for paths containing whitespaces (94623ca8ec by @kitten)
• Prebuild: Fixed how we copy and build the Symbols folder when precompiling ReactNativeDependencies (a843119ff1 by @chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fixed wrong jsi symbols in use when using React.xcframework (8a2e7efe01 by @chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fixed copying bundles correctly to xcframeworks when precompiling ReactNativeDependencies.xcframework (e3adf47214 by @chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Aligned Symbols folder in React.xcframework symbols with ReactNativeDependencies.xcframework symbols. (8c444f773a by @chrfalch)
• Prebuild: Fix "file exists" error in ReactNativeDependencies.podspec (4c570b5d31 by @vonovak)
• Prebuild: added explicit handling of ReactCodegen (6526a98d68 by @cipolleschi)

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Hermes dSYMS: - Debug - Release

ReactNativeDependencies dSYMs: - Debug - Release

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