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REACT NATIVE HARDENS BUILD PIPELINE WHILE FIXING ANDROID TEXT RENDERING

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React Native shipped critical infrastructure upgrades overnight: OIDC token replacement for npm publishing, AGP v9 adoption across the stack, and a text decoration rendering fix that restores native Android behavior.

The biggest story is npm publishing security [1]. React Native replaced long-lived `GHA_NPM_TOKEN` automation tokens with OIDC Trusted Publishing via a reusable workflow, eliminating a critical attack surface for package compromises. Alongside that, the team adopted Android Gradle Plugin v9 repository-wide [2], deprecating legacy APIs and modernizing the entire build graph. That same modernization work includes removing the folly::Endian dependency from JSIndexedRAMBundle [4], cutting unnecessary build overhead by inlining a simple little-endian decoder. On the stability front, a recent change that switched Android text decoration to custom canvas drawing inadvertently increased stroke thickness by 1.5dp [3]. The fix removes the minimum thickness enforcement, restoring native Android behavior. A minor CI fix landed for gradle.properties templating [5], but it's a cleanup that unblocks template testing.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Migrate npm publish to OIDC Trusted Publishing via a reusable workflow (#57099) ↗ facebook/react-native
  2. [2] feat: adopt AGP v9 (#57038) ↗ facebook/react-native
  3. [3] Fix text decoration line thickness regression on Android (#57111) ↗ facebook/react-native
  4. [4] Remove folly::Endian::little from JSIndexedRAMBundle (#57109) ↗ facebook/react-native
  5. [5] fix: add line break to gradle.properties for template testing (#57107) ↗ facebook/react-native

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What shipped in Meta on June 9, 2026?
React Native shipped critical infrastructure upgrades overnight: OIDC token replacement for npm publishing, AGP v9 adoption across the stack, and a text decoration rendering fix that restores native Android behavior. In total, 10 commits landed.
What were the notable Meta updates?
Migrate npm publish to OIDC Trusted Publishing via a reusable workflow (#57099), feat: adopt AGP v9 (#57038), and Fix text decoration line thickness regression on Android (#57111).
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$ log Meta --recent

React Native strips dead config, React compiler fixes exponent folding 21 shipped React Native's generated SwiftPM manifests inherit the app's iOS floor, and SectionList scrolls to the right row 30 shipped React stops emulating bubbling for toggle events, fixes Fragment compareDocumentPosition 9 shipped React Native's Babel preset stops dropping Platform.select side effects 6 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Alignment & Post-training GSM8K scoring parses answers as exact decimals AI Red Teaming PyRIT closes a judge-spoofing hole, promptfoo accepts Langfuse v6

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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