React Native: v0.81.2 Release

Release date:
September 9, 2025
Previous version:
v0.81.1 (released August 27, 2025)
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5 Diff Delta
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2 total committers
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Release Notes Published

Added

Android specific

  • Create a debugOptimized buildType for Android (5e3edafec6 by @cortinico)
  • Add useNativeEqualsInNativeReadableArrayAndroid and useNativeTransformHelperAndroid feature flag to the experimental channel. This should alleviate some of the perf issue users are seeing on Android + Reanimated + NewArch on 0.81(a346096da8 by @cortinico)

Fixed

iOS specific

  • Fix Node scripts related to prebuilt tarball extraction for paths containing whitespaces (366f2ad505 by @kitten)
  • Use autolinking-generated react-native-config output in second step of cocoapods linking that generates artifacts and generated source (a2eb29e5e7 by @kitten)

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