React Native Releases in 2025 - Towards a Stable Future

Explore the strategic transformation of React Native's release process in this conference talk from React Universe Conf 2025, where Jorge Cohen, Engineering Manager on the React team at Meta, reveals how React Native is evolving toward unprecedented stability and developer experience. Learn why React Native upgrades have historically been challenging and discover the comprehensive overhaul that's changing everything. Understand the shift from 2 annual releases to 6 predictable releases per year, delivered every two months with clockwork precision. Examine the automation infrastructure using bots and GitHub Actions that eliminates human error and reduces the workload on release crews. Discover the new end-to-end testing framework, nightly builds, and ecosystem-wide compatibility checks that ensure quality at every step. Gain insights into the clear support windows and reduced breaking changes designed to make upgrades simple and routine. Get a preview of the roadmap leading to React Native 1.0 and understand how these changes are building a stable foundation for the next decade of mobile development.