React Native Releases in 2025: Towards a Stable Future

Jorge Cohen

Engineering Manager on the React team at Meta

Jorge is an Engineering Manager on the React team at Meta, where he supports the developer experience and open source efforts, working on projects like React Native's stability, Metro, React DevTools, and the React Native DevTools. He has a background in cross-platform mobile development and has previously led engineering teams at Citymapper and Meta Reality Labs, working on emergent platforms and products that explore new interaction paradigms. With over 20 years of experience, Jorge is passionate about building software that empowers developers. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, tinkering with emulators, and exploring the intersection of technology and design history.

React Native Releases in 2025: Towards a Stable Future

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

▪ 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.