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
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Added support for italic, underline, and strikethrough styling for TextInput: Implements italic underline and strikethrough styling for TextInput (#15563)
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Added
@react-native-windows/perf-testing, a component performance testing framework for RNW Fabric: [Fabric]: Performance Tests for React Native Windows (#15666) -
Expose AutomationOption Setter for ChildSite, allowing other content islands connected in childsite to customize their automation option: Expose AutomationOption Setter for ChildSite (#15622)
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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
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Circular dependency build issues for RNW Fabric App fixed: Fix Circular Dependency issues for New Arch Apps (#15747)
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Update WinAppSdk to 1.8.260209005: Update WinAppSdk to 1.8.260209005 (#15660)
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Fix init-windows C++ codegen include to use codegenConfig.name: Fix init-windows C++ codegen include to use codegenConfig.name(#15619)
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Fix XAML popup positioning and light dismiss in ScrollView: Fix XAML popup positioning and light dismiss in ScrollView(#15564)
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Fix TextInput selection crash and feedback loop: Fix TextInput selection prop (#15672)
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Fixed SHIFT+F10 keyboard shortcut not showing context menu in TextInput components: Fix SHIFT+F10 keyboard shortcut for context menu in TextInput (#15621)
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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)
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Fixed issue where box with corner radius doesn't have shadow: Fixing box with corner radius doesn't have shadow (#15613)
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Bring Narrator focus to the XAML island for community module native components: Bring Narrator focus to XAML island (#15611)
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Fixed selectable text not receiving pointer events inside ScrollView: Fix selectable text not receiving pointer events inside ScrollView (#15577)
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Fixed detection of projects with mixed architecture support: fix(cli): fix template info not detecting mixed architecture projects (#15567)
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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)