react-native 0.70.9

on Node.js Yarn

This release is primarily aimed at addressing issues with ANRs using multiline TextInput on Samsung devices (#35936, #35590).

Changed

• Update Hermes to hermes-2023-04-13-RNv0.70.8-c9b539bf3d7bfa4143ff1a5751886c7b2dd728a2 (7b1441730b), contains:
  • Remove register stack size override in hermes.cpp (03f2df)
  • Increase default max stack size (1b759f4)

Fixed

Android specific

• Resolved bug with Text components in new arch losing text alignment state. (31a8e92cad by @javache)
• Mimimize EditText Spans 9/9: Remove addSpansForMeasurement() (92b8981499 by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize EditText Spans 8/N: CustomStyleSpan (b384bb613b by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize EditText Spans 6/N: letterSpacing (5791cf1f7b by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 5/N: Strikethrough and Underline (0869ea29db by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 4/N: ReactForegroundColorSpan (8c9c8ba5ad by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 3/N: ReactBackgroundColorSpan (cc0ba57ea4 by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 1/N: Fix precedence (1743dd7ab4 by @NickGerleman)
• Fix measurement of uncontrolled TextInput after edit (8a0fe30591 by @NickGerleman)

iOS specific

• Address Hermes performance regression (1df92c6 by @kelset)

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