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reactnative.devMoving Towards a Stable JavaScript API (New Changes in 0.80) · React NativeIn React Native 0.80, we're introducing two significant changes to React Native's JavaScript API — the deprecation of deep imports, and our new Strict TypeScript API. These are part of an ongoing effort to accurately define our API and offer dependable type safety to users and frameworks.

Improving our JavaScript API We're making changes to improve and stabilize our public JavaScript API. Deep imports are now deprecated and will fire a warning, and we're introducing a new opt-in Strict TypeScript API. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/0...

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github.com❄️ Freezing the Legacy Architecture · reactwg react-native-new-architecture · Discussion #290tl;dr: Starting on Monday, June 2nd, we are freezing the legacy architecture codebase: we will no longer accept PRs against the legacy architecture, nor will we develop new features for it. Startin...

Legacy Architecture Freezing & Warnings As of 2 June, the Legacy Architecture is officially frozen, and you'll start seeing warnings for APIs that won't work in the New Architecture. Check out our guides to help you migrate your apps and libraries. github.com/reactwg/rea...

iOS prebuilts (experimental) We're experimenting with prebuilding some core React Native dependencies for iOS to reduce build times. Try it out by opting in and let us know what you think!

Android - Smaller APK size thanks to IPO React Native 0.80 ships with a significant size reduction for all Android apps, thanks to enabling Interprocedural Optimization on React Native and Hermes builds.