React Native Windows: react-native-windows_v0.63.0 Release

This is the first stable release of React Native for Windows targetting React Native 0.63. See notes for newer releases of react-native-windows 0.63 here.

What’s New

• Autolinking for supported community modules
• Features from React Native 0.63 like LogBox
• ReactNotificationService to allow inter-native-module communication
• Many improvements for C# native modules (Task<T> support, Roslyn based code-generation)
• Support for tintColor and blurRadius Image properties
• Many other bug-fixes, additions, and reliability improvements

Deprecated

• The acceptsKeyboardFocus property has been deprecated in favor of the standard focusable property

Breaking Changes

• You will need to generate a new project using react-native-windows-init when upgrading from earlier versions of react-native-windows
• Layout behavior has changed to better match Android/iOS. This can be configured using QuirkSettings (see https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/pull/5140)
• To match other platforms, borders will now be drawn as black by default instead of transparent
• Native modules will now run on the same thread as the JavaScript engine. Blocking native module operations may impact JavaScript responsiveness.

Experimental (Not ready for production use)

• Support for WinUI3
• Binary distribution of Microsoft.ReactNative