The list of releases with notes can be found at: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases
Future releases:
- 0.17 branch cut, 0.17.0-rc - beginning of week of Dec 7
- 0.17.0 - Dec 17
- (Holiday break)
- 0.18 branch cut, 0.18.0-rc - beginning of week of Jan 4
- 0.18.0 - Jan 14
- 0.19 branch cut, 0.19.0-rc - beginning of week of Jan 18
- 0.19.0 - Jan 28
- ...
Note: replace 0.12 in all the commands below with the version you're releasing :)
First, set up Sinopia (only need to do this once): https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/react-native-cli
Make absolutely sure basic iOS and Android workflow works on master:
cd react-native
git pull
git checkout -b 0.12-stable
- Edit
ReactAndroid/gradle.properties
, setVERSION_NAME=0.12.0
- Edit
ReactAndroid/release.gradle
, uncomment Javadoc generation (the line// archives androidJavadocJar
) - Make sure
java -version
prints 1.7.x, this is currently needed for Javadoc generation and Javadocs are required by Maven Central (we should make it work with Java 8) - Run
./gradlew :ReactAndroid:installArchives
, it will print a lot of Javadoc warnings, that's OK. - Check the artifacts were generated:
ls -al ~/.m2/repository/com/facebook/react/react-native/0.12.0/
should contain:react-native-0.17.0-javadoc.jar
,react-native-0.17.0-sources.jar
,react-native-0.17.0.aar
,react-native-0.17.0.pom
- For each of the above also
.asc
file
- In
package.json
, set version to e.g.0.12.0-rc
. - In
React.podspec
, set version to e.g.0.12.0-rc
. - In
local-cli/generator-android/templates/src/app/build.gradle
update the dependency to e.g.com.facebook.react:react-native:0.12.+
- Publish to sinopia:
npm set registry http://localhost:4873/
, check that it worked:npm config list
will show registry is set to localhost- In a separate shell, start sinopia. Run
sinopia
. If started successfully it will print: http address - http://localhost:4873/. - Make sure http://localhost:4873/ shows no old versions
npm publish
- http://localhost:4873/ will show 0.12.0-rc
- Test that everything works:
cd /tmp
react-native init Zero12rc
cd Zero12rc
- Check that
package.json
,android/app/build.gradle
have correct versions (^0.12.0-rc
,com.facebook.react:react-native:0.12.+
) open ios/Zero12rc.xcodeproj
- Hit the Run button in Xcode.
- Packager should open in a new window, you should see the Welcome to React Native screen, Reload JS, try Chrome debugging - put a breakpoint somewhere in
index.ios.js
and Reload JS, Chrome debugger should stop on the breakpoint (we don't have tests for Chrome debugging) - Close the packager window, close Xcode
- Start an Android emulator (ideally Genymotion, it's faster and more reliable than Google emulators)
react-native run-android
- Test is the same way as on iOS, including Chrome debugging
- Revert the Javadoc change in
ReactAndroid/release.gradle
git commit -am
"[0.12-rc] Bump version numbers"git push origin 0.12-stable
Publish to Maven Central (NOTE we could get rid of this whole section publishing binaries to npm instead):
- Log into Sonatype and go to Staging upload. You'll need to get permissions for this by filing a ticket explaining you're a core contributor to React Native. Example ticket.
- Select Artifact(s) with a POM (to publish to a local Maven repo for testing run
./gradlew :ReactAndroid:installArchives
) - Add all files: .aar, sources jar, javadoc jar, .asc for everything (including the POM file)
- Wait a few hours until you see the version has propagated to JCenter
To release 0.12-rc to npm:
(You need to be a maintainer of the repo. For admins, here's the command to promote someone)
npm owner add <user> react-native
git tag v0.12.0-rc 0.12-stable # don't forget the `v` at the beginning!
git push --tags
- Publish to npm
npm publish
# Only for non-rc releases:
npm dist-tag add [email protected] latest
- Upgrade tags to a release by going to https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tags
- Click "Add Notes to release"
- Click Publish