Another great release, check out the release notes, you know the drill. Or don't, and just scroll through here and you'll see a cherry-picked selection of some of my favorite commits.

"There is support for applications on both Desktop Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch." -- click through for the README and give it a try.

Now running on react-native 0.31! Adds support for some new built-in native modules, improves push notification API by providing an "origin" property to let you know whether it was selected or just received, blur view, some big improvements to XDE and ex-navigation. Check it out :)

Write React Native apps using F#, if you're into that kind of thing! I'd like to see Reason support for React Native, personally ;) 

The story of where the SoundCloud pulse app came from and how the experience went. Spoiler alert: they want to use React Native more.

Param Aggarwal built a working copy of the open-close cards carousel from the original Facebook Paper app as a technical demo. It uses the Animated library and shows how to accomplish amazing Facebook Paper-like effects using a minimal amount of code.

Check out his implementation on Github to learn more.

Click through for the 15 minute talk or just check out the slides -- you're sure to learn something. Very well done @jsessler and @brunobar79!

KeyboardAvoidingView is a component we built internally to solve the common problem of views that need to move out of the way of the virtual keyboard.  It can automatically adjust either its position or bottom padding based on the position of the keyboard.

Adds proper support for tracking a TextInput content size by adding a new callback that is called every time the content size changes - including when first rendering the view.

In this pull request janicduplessis follows up on work by brentvatne in #5052. This addresses the feedback by astreet. This has landed for both iOS and Android in 0.31! requestIdleCallback lets you schedule work for free CPU cycles, see the MDN docs for more details (note: the timeout option is not currently supported).

This is just one of many commits from @MengjueW to add RTL support to react-native, awesome stuff!

"This is an initial step of rewriting the CLI interface to use `rnpm` one (commander, plugins etc.)." -- in other words, a much more powerful react-native CLI to come!

Adds a UI to display network information flows in the inspector tool (Android and iOS both supported)

Deprecate:
var MovieCell = React.createClass
Implement:
class MovieCell extends React.Component

Implemented automatic IP detection for iOS when testing on device - works by writing the IP address of the host to a file.

Allows background audio streaming of a remote stream using a simple UI player component.

Also includes player controls via sticky notification on android and media center on iOS.

Apparently there's not many examples of integrating Crashlytics with Android... until now! Check out this article which steps you through from A-Z.

Command line tool to create a React Native library with a single command. If you are looking to create a native module for React Native, you need some native code for each platform you want to support and then some JavaScript code to bind it all together. Setting this up by yourself can be time-consuming...

wml - An alternative to symlinks that actually copies changed files from source to destination folders. Or check out this commit by kureev that makes the react-native packager work with symlinked packages!

Andre shares various NPM scripts he's developed that help him wrangle the packager into shape. Maybe you'll find something here that's worth adding to your workflow.

This is a good article exploring the various ways to bind "this" within our components.

Responsive Design can now be easily managed with this library using a set of apis, components, and decorators that allow you to manage layouts between different sizes and displays.

This is a pretty great article describing his journey in creating a React Native driven Kiosk. It's worth a look through for sure, even if you don't have that need right now.

When Firebase released version 3x, they no longer worked with React Native. So, we've been stuck with Firebase 2x... until now!

This library promises to alert your users when a new version of your app is available in the App Store. This is necessary when an OTA push of JS code using something like AppHub or CodePush isn't enough. 

Use an iPad to test your components layout in different screen sizes. It uses the react-native-layout-tester.

Text inputs with custom label and icon animations for iOS and android. 

Ensures publishing from master and the working directory is clean with no unpulled changes. Also bumps the version, runs tests, reinstalls dependencies to ensure project works with the latest dependency tree, and a whole bunch of goodies!

Not only do they provide simulators for React Native Playground but now also throughout the React Native docs! They have supported the community since very early on. Check them out if you have any need for an in-browser simulator for iOS or Android! Go and upload an app, the first 100 minutes of simulator use are free!

With Exponent you can create a new React Native project in one click and deploy it with a second click, making it available to anyone else who has the Exponent app. If you want to get it onto the App Store or Play Store as a standalone app, we support that too. Push notifications? Yup. Just a few lines that are set up out of the box for both iOS and Android. Give it a try, let me know what you think on Twitter @notbrent