microsoft/react-native-windows react-native-windows_v0.83.0

React Native Windows 0.83.0

Repository: microsoft/react-native-windows

Tag: react-native-windows_v0.83.0

Published: 2026-06-04T04:21:44Z

Prerelease: no

Release notes: We're excited to release React Native Windows 0.83.0 targeting React Native 0.83.0!

This release includes the commits to React Native Windows from 01/15/2026 – 03/25/2026.

New Features

• Added support for italic, underline, and strikethrough styling for TextInput: Implements italic underline and strikethrough styling for TextInput (#15563)

• Added @react-native-windows/perf-testing, a component performance testing framework for RNW Fabric: [\[Fabric\]: Performance Tests for React Native Windows (#15666)](https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/pull/15666)

• Expose AutomationOption Setter for ChildSite, allowing other content islands connected in childsite to customize their automation option: Expose AutomationOption Setter for ChildSite (#15622)

• Adds support for detecting which mouse button triggered pointer events (left, right, middle, etc.) and registers missing W3C pointer event handlers: Add button property mouse events (#15819)

Reliability

• Circular dependency build issues for RNW Fabric App fixed: Fix Circular Dependency issues for New Arch Apps (#15747)

• Update WinAppSdk to 1.8.260209005: Update WinAppSdk to 1.8.260209005 (#15660)

• Fix init-windows C++ codegen include to use codegenConfig.name: [Fix init-windows C++ codegen include to use codegenConfig.name(#15619)]( https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/pull/15619)

• Fix XAML popup positioning and light dismiss in ScrollView: Fix XAML popup positioning and light dismiss in ScrollView(#15564)

• Fix TextInput selection crash and feedback loop: Fix TextInput selection prop (#15672)

• Fixed SHIFT+F10 keyboard shortcut not showing context menu in TextInput components: Fix SHIFT+F10 keyboard shortcut for context menu in TextInput (#15621)

• Adding defensive check to ensure device context is valid before D2D operations: adding defensive check to ensure device context is valid before D2D operations (#15620)

• Fixed issue where box with corner radius doesn't have shadow: Fixing box with corner radius doesn't have shadow (#15613)

• Bring Narrator focus to the XAML island for community module native components: Bring Narrator focus to XAML island (#15611)

• Fixed selectable text not receiving pointer events inside ScrollView: Fix selectable text not receiving pointer events inside ScrollView (#15577)

• Fixed detection of projects with mixed architecture support: fix(cli): fix template info not detecting mixed architecture projects (#15567)

• Fixed a silent MSBuild linker bug in the cpp-app and cpp-lib templates where a typo in %(AdditionalDependencies) caused inherited link dependencies to be silently dropped: fix: %(AdditionalDependencies) metadata typo in cpp-app/cpp-lib templates and package projects (#15720)