Codegen: Separate component array types and command array types (825492b199 by @elicwhite)
React Native devTools: The FuseboxClient.setClientMetadata CDP method is removed. Instead, use ReactNativeApplication.enable. (1a9780f0e3 by @huntie)

Android specific

APIs: Changed visibility of FrescoBasedReactTextInlineImageViewManager to internal (d5f33c19cb by @alanleedev)
APIs: Migrating pointerEvents API breaks compatibility for kotlin usages of this api as a val (45e4a3afce by @mdvacca)
APIs: Convert RootView to Kotlin (21c9491926 by @fabriziocucci)
APIs: Delete unused abstract class GuardedResultAsyncTask (67bff8734f by @mdvacca)
APIs: Delete deprecated class FabricViewStateManager (b25b65ba19 by @mdvacca)
APIs: Removed ComponentNameResolver from public API (a4849cb3d6 by @mdvacca)

iOS specific

Image: Change Image load event size info from logical size to pixel (09995fc874 by @zhongwuzw)

Added

C++: Added RawValue(Runtime*, jsi::Value&) constructor to make a RawValue from a jsi::Value. (03d2186ace by @hannojg)
Codegen: Include cxx modules in codegen schema (cf5ab03d43 by @elicwhite)
Deps: Add jest-diff v29.7.0 to devDependencies (b27bd00a38 by @andrewdacenko)
Logging: Add support for the second parameter of console.table to specify a list of columns to print in the table. (fd0894b1c7 by @rubennorte)
Logging: Add "jsEngine: hermes" to JS runtime Error prototype (85bdd75828 by Maddie Lord)
Metro: Add opt in for legacy Metro log streaming via --client-logs flag (86db4fa90b by @huntie)
Text: Added pointerEvents to TextProps type. (3efbe33ce0 by @hyochan)

Android specific

ActivityIndicator: setting resource-id from the testID prop (87b1bad45e by @mateoguzmana)
Codegen: Fixing schema types for component command params of Arrays (25c673e357 by @elicwhite)
Gradle: Make the addition of JitPack repository configurable (a98528e609 by @cortinico)
Logging: SoftException categories (c832f94cf7 by Thomas Nardone)
Logging: Add logging in ReactInstanceManager.onHostPause when activity is incorrectly null (c2fd35a442 by Maddie Lord)
Runtime: Added getState method for StateWrapperImpl (ed36e896ac by @hannojg)

iOS specific

Codegen: Add the source parameter to generate-codegen-artifacts to avoid generating files not needed by libraries. (98b8f17811 by @cipolleschi)
Initialization: Implement ReactNativeFactory (081be01a5d by @okwasniewski)
Text: Support system font families (system-ui, ui-sans-serif, ui-serif, ui-monospace, and ui-rounded) on iOS (1763321c89 by @cxa)
TextInput: Integrate a new property - disableKeyboardShortcuts. It can disable the keyboard shortcuts on iPads. (0154372b93 by @rezkiy37)

Changed

Deps: Bump Hermes (0c8e15e8bb by @cipolleschi)
Flow: Improved types in BoxInspector and refactored a code (f832c450a5 by @coado)
Flow: Improved types in StyleInspector and refactored a code (49e5c58c59 by @coado)
Flow: Improved types in ElementBox and refactored a code (2959d49e8d by @coado)
Flow: Improve types on BorderBox (48a7840919 by @coado)
Flow: Improve types on DrawerLayoutAndroid (b5155fba89 by @huntie)
Logging: Improved formatting of values logged via console.table (including Markdown format). (7154c62afb by @rubennorte)
Runtime: Mark intersectionRect required in NativeIntersectionObserverEntry to reflect native logic. (8681fc2ab2 by @lunaleaps)
Runtime: (9aa21b5e87 by @lunaleaps)
TypeScript: Upgrading typescript-config module version to esnext (5370347f54 by @mateoguzmana)
VirtualizedList: Fix item disappearing with scroll in VirtualizedList (df7b6ae092 by @Tom910)
Yoga: Update YGNodeStyleGetGap to return YGValue (331d99a941 by @heoblitz)

Android specific

APIs: Introduce new public API ViewManagerInterface (40a0cdbc99 by @mdvacca)
Deps: Bumped Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) to 8.8.0 (4c7c836ebf by @cortinico)
Deps: Bump Gradle to 8.12 (5e6478954c by @cortinico)
Deps: Update Fresco to 3.6.0 (819b5c2c8d by @Abbondanzo)
Deps: Migrate jsc-android to mavenCentral (e42a3a6b84 by @Kudo)
Image: Replaced custom XML decoder with Fresco's built-in decoder (6feb90bb29 by @Abbondanzo)
Kotlin: Migrate ComponentNameResolver to kotlin (385b9f4265 by @mdvacca)
Kotlin: Migrate ReactSwitchManager to Kotlin (b886bc4db9 by @krozniata)

iOS specific

Accessibility: Reduce memory allocations when computing accessibilityLabel (74bdab8bd8 by @sparga)
CocoaPods: Properly inherit OTHER_CPLUSPLUSLAGS (fa03840e68 by @WoLewicki)
CocoaPods: Pin 'concurrent-ruby' to a working version (198adb47af by @cipolleschi)

Removed

Android specific

APIs: Made ReactCookieJarContainer internal. (18ebea533d by @javache)
Config: Remove as_const option (on by default) in fbsource (e5a526ff44 by @panagosg7)
Flow: Remove comment syntax from ReactNativeTypes (a80baac58e by @hoxyq)
Metro: Removed JSCHeapCapture module, deprecated PackagerCommandListener#onCaptureHeapCommand (e06fa5d102 by @javache)

Fixed

Animations: Removed unnecessary state updates in React to reflect the current state of looping animations. (6059660c60 by @rubennorte)
Animations: Animation.stop() executes when animatedShouldUseSingleOp is enabled. (746d584a23 by @javache)
Animations: Fix buttons becoming unresponsive when transform is animated (2204ec94d4 by @sammy-SC)
C++: JSBigFileString fails for non-zero offset arguments (7d0338cb0b by @jwajgelt)
Config: Disable react-in-jsx-scope rule in eslint config (ea56c432b7 by @matinzd)
Deps: Fix peer dependencies on React types to React 19 (4368368ef5 by @cipolleschi)
Deps: Add missing invariant dependency (ee8088b615 by @tido64)
Fantom: Fix a bug when fantom tests could not be run in parallel, e.g. in a stress-test. (8696b79f73 by @mijay)
Logging: Modified console.table to avoid mutating the received argument. (caa77fbe2b by @rubennorte)
Text: Fixed adjustsFontSizeToFit not working for text with a single character (47822e9048 by @j-piasecki)
Text: Fix maxFontSizeMultiplier prop on Text and TextInput components in Fabric / New Architecture (ea49d4d1b01107a5ecbbbd4904f1d935e51d6b32 by @RickardZrinski)

Android specific

APIs Re-introduce the deprecated constructor on ReactModuleInfo (734730df75 by @cortinico)
Dialog: FLAG_SECURE not respected in Modal dialog (7e029b0dcf by @mateoguzmana)
Events: Fix crash for setEventEmitterCallback NoSuchMethodError on API lvl 26 (7dcbc799eb by @cortinico)
Gradle: Fixed build issue when including mapbuffer jni headers in library code (ecf17666ad by @hannojg)
InteropLayer: Fix execution of early InteropEvents (4ed2b35bf6 by @mdvacca)
JSC: Fix JSC Debug instacrashing (b10491a3c4 by @cortinico)
JSC:Fix JSC by avoiding use of unavailable str.replaceAll() (b5b9e032c2 by @robhogan)
Modal: Setting resource-id from testID prop (52b6592559 by @mateoguzmana)
Networking: ReactOkHttpNetworkFetcher – cache control headers getting overwritten by the rest of the headers (81cb166d10 by @mateoguzmana)
React Native DevTools: Pass the bundle URL protocol when setting up HMR client on Android (32fe244744 by @byCedric)
Runtime: Fix BackHandle callback undefined cause crash issue (44705fe11b by @BleemIs42)
Runtime: Support Long values in WritableMap and WritableArray (e7f943de2f by @WoLewicki)
Runtime: SetColorScheme should be called on the UI thread (2aa79979d3 by lihaitao)
Style: Fix background getting clipped when border-radius is set (6d235853fb by @jorge-cab)
Testing: Handling testID correctly for horizontal scroll view (81c74cd35f by @mateoguzmana)
TextInput: Fix incorrect height of single line TextInputs without definite size (9b646c8b7b by @NickGerleman)

iOS specific

C++: Exclude Android HorizontalScrollContentView cxx component code (4adaacb4f7 by @zhongwuzw)
Ccache: Fix ccache not found error exporting ccache binary path as Xcode user-defined setting to be used by ccache scripts (d31ac832c5 by @ste7en)
CocoaPods: Resolve "Your project does not explicitly specify the CocoaPods master specs repo" pod install warning (2f2281718a by @noway)
Image: Load images even when the extension is implicit (b9f418e9bc by @cipolleschi)
Initialization: Allow multiple RN instances to run at the same time (444c7d4eff by @cipolleschi)
InteropLayer: Avoid crashing the app when the InteropLayer can't find some methods in the native implementation (3bd3f101b9 by @cipolleschi)
InteropLayer: Properly handle null value in TurboModule Interop layer (ebfd7057af by @cipolleschi)
JSC: Fix Direct Debugging with JSC (b04d17afca by @Saadnajmi)
Keyboard: Enable/disable keyboard shortcuts only on iOS (8b0af4542e by @okwasniewski)
RefreshControl: Fix app becoming unresponsive when RefreshControl is used inside of <Modal /> (6cb2684b43 by @sammy-SC)
React Native DevTools: Restore "Paused in debugger" overlay icon (f30c46efbd by @robhogan)
Runtime: Emit didUpdateDimensions correctly (920867d949 by TobiasH)
Runtime: Fix applicationDidEnterBackground not being called (adaceba546 by @alextoudic)
Runtime: Fixed problem with accessory view & 3rd party libs (5fc582783d by @kirillzyusko)
Style: Dashed & dotted borders now work with overflow: hidden (1b88c5b429 by @joevilches)
Style: Fixed centerContent losing taps and causing jitter (fe7e97a2fd by @gaearon)
Xcode: Properly escape paths in Xcode build script used when bundling an app. (2fee13094b by @kraenhansen)

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