Filip Kamiński

Hi everyone! Kacper and Filip from Software Mansion here! 👋

It's not too late—we're finally back from our Christmas break, and the entire newsletter team wishes you a happy New Year!

The winter break brought a lot of great articles from the community. While for some, early January is a time for reflection, summaries, and reviews of 2025, others can’t stop shipping.

In the React space, we have a new version of Next.js 16.1, security fixes for React Router, and the announcement of Waku 1.0 alpha.

As for React Native, we have the release of Voltra, a new way to create Live Activities & Widgets, and a sneak peek of React Native 0.84 with Hermes v1 enabled by default.

Hi everyone! Filip and Krzysztof from Software Mansion here! 👋

It’s been another challenging week for the React ecosystem. Developers worldwide have been rushing to update their React versions to patch two new vulnerabilities. This serves as a good reminder for all of us to prioritize security during testing.

Fortunately, React Native remains mostly unaffected by these threats, as Server Components aren’t yet widely used in the mobile environment.

We are taking a well-deserved Christmas break 🎄 so this will be our last issue until January 14th.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone! Thank you for reading our newsletter throughout the year. See you in 2026! 👋

Hi everyone! Filip and Krzysztof from Software Mansion here! 👋

This edition is special for at least four reasons:

1. It's a very rounded anniversary edition - issue 256 - let's hope our counter can hold more than 8 bits 🤞
2. This is the first newsletter issue for Filip, who is improving React Native DX by developing Radon IDE.
3. It was a great week, with a lot of excellent content emerging from the Next.js conf in the React world.
4. React Native isn't far behind, as this week saw some cool stuff released, including updates for React Navigation, Uniwind, React Native Screens, and more.

That's more than enough reasons to jump straight into the content - enjoy the reading!