0.62.x RC Discussion

[kelset]

EDIT by @alloy:

The current version is v0.62.0-rc.5 and appears to be the golden one ✨

TODOs:

• [x] Include these last fixes without doing another RC:
  • https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/db12255645204541b102300feaf3e640411a4596
  • https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/85a4b0f5bda71470a8323596ed5422982f4c7a03
  • https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/5ca1d8f260bfb64111a6ba39f76a0a935829c0f2
• [x] Need a blog post. @rickhanlonii is tasked with this.
• [x] Update website content for v0.62 https://github.com/facebook/react-native-website/pull/1782
• [x] Fix categorisation of changelog items
• [x] Should we fold many related changelog items (e.g. re Flipper) into a single item? And who is the point person for this type of work?
• [x] Make sure the Flipper team is able to support a release right now due to COVID-19

[kelset]

@codecog thanks for asking! I fear that atm there isn't much that can be done 😓 The only one of those to do points that is kind of actionable is the changelog one: we have a draft PR https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/pull/166 currently being worked on, but Ricky is already on the case on his side-PR to improve on it https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/pull/176 and he has already a few feedbacks on it to improve it. I'm sure an extra pair of eyes would be super helpful to spot things we may have missed, since it's just a massive changelog. But yeah atm aside from that I'm not sure what could be done.

If you are an Android user, maybe you could help us out with understanding better what's going on in https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/28163. I feel that we could use a comment to summarize the issue and provide a clearly defined workaround.

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@SergioEstevao I don't think we will add other commits aside from the ones defined in the top post, sorry. Maybe for 0.62.1.

[kelset]

Hey everyone, we've released 0.62.0 (read more) 🚀

Please refer to the dedicated issue from now on https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/issues/179