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REACT NATIVE PLUGS TWO CRITICAL CRASHES ACROSS ANDROID AND iOS

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Christian Falch Ahmed Sbai Ray Dawid Malecki Devan Buggay
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Christian Falch @chrfalch 1 cited Ahmed Sbai @sbaiahmed1 1 cited Ray @ramonclaudio 1 cited Dawid Malecki @coado 1 cited Devan Buggay @sbuggay

A percentage borderRadius on Android Images and a Debug/Release build swap on iOS are both fixed overnight, clearing two silent production killers from the pipeline.

React Native shipped two urgent fixes that address crashes developers were hitting in the wild. First, setting a percentage border radius on `<Image>` (e.g. `borderRadius: '50%'`) crashed Android with a type mismatch [1] - the property setter was still typed as `Float` while JS sent strings, and reflection-based updates choked on the cast. Second, iOS builds failed mid-compile when switching between Debug and Release configurations [2], because `replace-rncore-version.js` deleted and recreated the `Pods/React-Core-prebuilt/Headers/` directory containing the `module.modulemap` that Xcode needs to resolve framework imports. The Android fix is a straightforward type correction; the iOS fix prevents that intermediate deletion entirely. Both are single-commit patches and ship now. In parallel, the team addressed a persistent Xcode 14+ warning on every clean build by adding the `:always_out_of_date` flag to the hermes-engine podspec [3], and optimized Maven repository request volume during pod install by caching tarball URL resolutions in `ReactNativePodsUtils` [4] to prevent redundant calls across multiple resolution sites.

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What shipped in Meta on August 5, 2026?
A percentage borderRadius on Android Images and a Debug/Release build swap on iOS are both fixed overnight, clearing two silent production killers from the pipeline. In total, 5 commits landed.
Who contributed to Meta on August 5, 2026?
5 developers shipped this update, including Christian Falch, Ahmed Sbai, Ray, Devan Buggay, and Dawid Malecki.
What were the notable Meta updates?
fix(android): crash when setting a percentage borderRadius on Image (#57795), fix(iOS): keep prebuilt Headers/ in place on a Debug/Release swap (#57814), and Set always_out_of_date on hermes-engine Replace Hermes phase (#56912).
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