Road to 0.66.0

[lunaleaps]

The branch cut has happened.

Notice

• Current release candidate: v0.66.0
• Have an issue with current release candidate? File an issue and we will triage.
• Have a pick request for this release? Does it call under our pick request qualifications? If so please comment on this issue with the hash and justification.

  Highlighted Changes in this release

• See Changelog
• Nightlies & Commitlies

Release Process

Checklist

• [X] Generate changelog and update this issue: Changelog PR here
• [x] Start a Google doc of blog post for release and invite contributors of release highlights to expand

  When ready to publish stable

• [x] Ship changelog
• [x] Ship blog post
• [x] Cut and ship new documentation version - pull request

Retrospective Topics

• We should update manual testing script to automatically build hermes versions of RNTestProject. Added support for RNTester in https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/732ac170992ca7b94e2419603d1f1095a878bbe3
• We should audit the testing instructions, it mentions checking Chrome Debugger...which isn't a use-case anymore for RNTester and RNTestProject and we probably want Flipper instructions
• @lunaleaps had bad experience with not being able to exit debugging experience on Android
  • We picked https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/49b3b31d8e706338dac4ced1b372424d7d1d133f to help
• @tido64 found issues on iOS with Image warning for unhandled promise?
• Maybe we should add Release configuration tests to manual test script
• We need a way to get sense of scale of people testing RC
• Questions about Hermes debugging and new app screen, instructions on the new app screen don't make sense for new apps using Hermes?
• Can we update react-native cli to allow option to create Hermes template app -- it'll make testing a little easier
• Apple Silicon (M1) machines were still not widely available to help speed up testing needs (not many have one, Circle CI didn't have one either)

Release Status

0.66.0 (shipped!)

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0.66.0-rc.4

• [x] Make a tweet about this when ready to get more signal
• [x] Upgrade upgrade-helper

  Blocking issues for releasing 0.66.0-rc.4

• https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/32224 (solved via CLI update, no pick necessary)

Picks for 0.66.0-rc.4

• [x] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/32243: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/ef5ff3e055482771cbe866d4961ee2d0a9e00e45
• [x] Podfile.lock updater for releases: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/d3c7e201839f5d7c869c4c88ab2031ef7d16e158 + https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/ec9e97179ee789feb86d13830bc3062030c23152

• [x] Verify that the fix is in place in 0.66 that will not require this https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/5f7deb5f1d17050ce399dd43a86495d5c3c8ba83 --> fix already in place: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/309ee06ead4e23904418449ec33bc98a6ea2e825

  0.66.0-rc.3

• [x] Make a tweet about this when ready to get more signal
• [x] Upgrade upgrade-helper

  Blocking issues for releasing 0.66.0-rc.3

• https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/issues/250 Determined this is not a release-blocker
• https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/issues/251

Picks for 0.66.0-rc.3

• [x] Undefined symbols for architecture arm64: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/b0c8a4eee821ca0b22e166a2a38f2bd2f22a1abe

  0.66.0-rc.2

  Blocking issues for releasing 0.66.0-rc.2

• Waiting on 0.9 release of Hermes
• A question of Podfile.lock due to conflict from cherry-pick of Bump hermes cocoapod to 0.9.0: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/8e66f0b35b5ec1054994f7048ef3e66002544197 -- @lunaleaps not sure if I need to run pod update to commit

  Picks for 0.66.0-rc.2

• [x] Hermes 0.9.0
  • [x] libjsi change to be able to link with Hermes 0.9.0: facebook/react-native@1bc885b
  • [x] Revert Android specific max heap size Hermes GCConfig: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/a8ac5ea32676dedb17b63069a0c83ddf71746888
  • [x] Bump hermes npm to 0.9.0: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/66bd1e9c2c5c12d8652847b068ea149e790259cf
  • [x] Bump hermes cocoapod to 0.9.0: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/8e66f0b35b5ec1054994f7048ef3e66002544197

• [x] Break caching issue for manual testing script: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/cae063798652fcf394ccf3af4645fd971ed76c19

  0.66.0-rc.1

  Blocking issues for releasing 0.66.0-rc.1

• https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/issues/249

  Picks for 0.66.0-rc.1

• [x] Address error logbox when connecting to Chrome debugger: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/49b3b31d8e706338dac4ced1b372424d7d1d133f
• [x] OSS: Fix $ENTRY_FILE check for non-Debug Xcode builds: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/945c5f714d9b3a75f0be02b3a408f865c9021aa7
• [x] OSS: add Xcode 12.5 + M1 machines CocoaPods post_install workaround: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/ac4ddec542febda744de218dae3a3d34edc7da84
• [x] Switch order of search libraries to fix M1 build error: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/329b026f3a48a4228a89696540ba459276f9a2c2

• [x] Fix dependencies for bumping OSS version: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/963254e2ec31fd5897d46e51862feba5d65a7e5b

  0.66.0-rc.0

  Picks that are in 0.66.0-rc.0

• [X] Bump @react-native/polyfills version: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/2550948ec6fa480e4e483f997e91d691ea5f5cee
• [X] Fix RNTester for iOS 15: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/ad9030ca9ae3861d079c16d3ce610edc1bedc54c
• [x] Prefer the local react-native-codegen package: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/362511dc939b6784ab25c4238c70a019faf414af
  • When this is cherry-picked, we should also move react-native-codegen from the template to root
• [x] Add Android 12 BLUETOOTH_ADVERTISE to PermissionsAndroid: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/2bcc6fac3844f0752bc7067517c92a643679575e
• [x] Fix tooling dependencies after bumping version: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/5d6484e0a87c71f89daba007a5782f824c625727 @lunaleaps I reverted this because it doesn't work
• [x] Add hermes testing to RNTester for manual testing script: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/732ac170992ca7b94e2419603d1f1095a878bbe3

[lunaleaps]

0.66.0 is out. Please see https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/issues/254 for any issues