Expo SDK 58 is out, and for once the headline isn't a new way to break your Podfile. With Xcode 27 retiring Simulator.app, the new expo-device-hub streams your iOS simulators and Android emulators into the browser with live CPU, memory and network graphs, while expo-app-intents lets Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight trigger actions in your app, and the experimental Noxcturnal transformer roughly halves Metro transform times.

We also look at react-native-better-pdf 1.0 by Jakub Kasprzyk and GMI Software, which drops the bundled PDF engine for the phone's own PDFKit and PdfRenderer on Nitro Views, opening a 1,000-page scan in 56 ms instead of 622 ms. Plus, React Native 0.88 lands, Gesture Handler 3.4 builds with Swift Package Manager, and react-native-gpui renders React Native with Zed's GPU framework.