Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Upgrading React Native doesn’t have to be painful anymore.

At React Universe Conf 2025, Jorge Cohen, Engineering Manager on the React team at Meta, unveiled a strategic overhaul of the React Native release process. This talk dives deep into how Meta is making React Native more predictable, stable, and developer-friendly than ever before.

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🔹 Why React Native upgrades earned a bad reputation, and how that’s changing.
🔹 The shift from 2 releases a year → 6 predictable releases a year, shipped on time, every two months.
🔹 Automation with bots and GitHub Actions to cut human error and reduce release crew workload.
🔹 New end-to-end testing, nightly builds, and ecosystem-wide compatibility checks.
🔹 Clear support windows and fewer breaking changes to make upgrades simple and boring (in a good way).
🔹 A look ahead to the path towards React Native 1.0.

If you’ve ever dreaded an upgrade, this talk will show you how React Native is building a stable foundation for the next decade.

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