The list of releases with notes can be found at: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases Future releases: - **0.20 branch cut**, 0.20.0-rc - **week of Feb 1** - 0.20.0 - Feb 15 - **0.21 branch cut**, 0.21.0-rc - **week of Feb 15** - 0.21.0 - Feb 29 - **0.22 branch cut**, 0.22.0-rc - **week of Feb 29** - 0.22.0 - Mar 7 - **0.23 branch cut**, 0.23.0-rc - **week of Mar 7** - 0.23.0 - Mar 21 - ... ## One time setup Set up Sinopia: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/react-native-cli ## Cut a release branch To cut a release branch and check that everything works, you'll need Mac OS with the [Android dev environment set up](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/ReactAndroid/README.md). Run: cd react-native ./scripts/release.sh 0.19 # Replace 0.19 with the version you're cutting the branch for :) #### Check that everything works Make absolutely sure a basic iOS and Android workflow works on the release branch you've just created, see the instructions printed by `release.sh`. #### Push to github - Check git history, the last commit should be "[0.19-rc] Bump version numbers" (with the correct version) - `git push origin 0.version_you_are_releasing-stable` #### Update https://facebook.github.io/react-native Move `latest` tag when doing a release and pushing to `0.x-stable` branch, CI will build and deploy the latest docs to the website. ``` git tag -d latest git push origin :latest git tag latest git push origin version_you_are_releasing-stable --tags ``` ## Make sure we have release notes Post that we're ready to release so voluteers can write release notes: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases To go through all the commits that went into a release, one way is to use the github compare view: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/compare/0.18-stable...0.19-stable ## Do a release IMPORTANT: `npm publish` will automatically set the latest tag. **When doing an RC release**, run `npm publish --tag next` - this way people need to opt in to get the RC release. ## Track bug reports from the community during the following two weeks and make sure they get fixed A good way to do this is to create a github issue and post about it so people can report bugs: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/5201