ViroReact 2.43.1 – Full New Architecture Support & Major Stability Fixes
We’re excited to release ReactVision 2.43.1, a significant update that marks our full migration to React Native’s New Architecture and brings major improvements to app stability, performance, and developer experience.
This release reflects months of effort modernizing ViroReact under the hood while keeping things smooth for developers building cutting-edge AR experiences with React Native.
✨ Goodbye Legacy, Hello Future
With this release, we’ve officially deprecated support for React Native’s legacy architecture. ReactVision now runs exclusively on the New Architecture.
Why does this matter?
- 🔋 Better performance: Faster rendering and layout handling
- 🛠️ Improved reliability: Fewer surprises when integrating into modern React Native stacks
- 🔮 Future-ready: We’re aligning ReactVision with where React Native is headed
If you’re using any of the default React Native versions from 0.74 to 0.79, you’re already on the New Architecture—ReactVision now fits right in.
🧼 Crash Fixes & Cleanup Improvements
We’ve heard from the community about recurring crashes, especially during screen transitions and scene unmounting. This release takes a deep dive into those issues and closes the loop for good.
✅ Here’s what we fixed:
- Unmount crashes that only affected existing projects? Gone.
- ARSceneNavigator crashes during navigation? Resolved.
- ARSession now cleanly terminates when a scene is unmounted—no more dangling memory.
- Prop propagation bugs under the New Architecture? Patched.
These changes make ReactVision much more stable across a range of project setups, especially when managing complex scene transitions.
🔧 Issues Closed (Thanks to You)
Big thanks to everyone who raised issues and shared debugging insights. This release resolves the following community-reported bugs:
- 334: Crashes on component unmount in existing projects
- 324: Prop updates failing in New Architecture
- 315: ARScene teardown inconsistencies
- 317: ARSession memory leaks
- 333: ARSceneNavigator crash during route change
- Position not working on any object in Android #353
- Using ViroButton or ViroImage+onClick crashes AR Scene #351
- React navigation makes the app crash when going back from ViroARSceneNavigator #350
Keep the issues coming—we’re listening and prioritizing accordingly.
📦 Get the Latest Version
Update now via:
npm install @reactvision/viro-react
Learn More About This Update
Interested in learning more about how we've implemented support for React Native's new architecture? We've added some documentation to the repo to break down how we've approached this update and guide you with implementing this into your project.
- New Architecture Overview: https://github.com/ReactVision/viro/blob/main/docs/FABRIC_INTEROP_TECHNICAL_FLOW.md
Need Help?
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