React Native Windows: react-native-windows_v0.63.0-preview.1 Release

Release date:
January 27, 2021
Previous version:
react-native-windows_v0.62.22 (released January 27, 2021)
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10,788 Diff Delta
Contributors:
20 total committers
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Release Notes Published

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