feat: 0.76 Release Blog Post

[blakef]

The release blog post. This is an early draft that requires community feedback on:

• accuracy
• glaring omissions

Please avoid bike-shedding where possible.

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[cipolleschi]

@slorber

Swift template? (although it's in a separate repo now) https://github.com/react-native-community/template/pull/45

This will not land in 0.76. The 0.76 branch of the template still has the objective-c code, so it will not pop up in the upgrade helper and any new project in 0.76 with the template will still have the code in objective-c. That's why we omitted it.

Metro 0.81 (and mention recent perf gains)? facebook/[email protected] (release)

This is worth calling out, especially because we also call that out at React Universe on the stage. cc. @blakef

Not sure it's worth mentioning, but CSS isolate: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/45883

This feels like a detail of the views that was introduced to make other properties that depends on the stacking context work better.. Do you think that many people might want to use this prop?

Modal backdropColor? https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/46322

This feels like something too small to make it to the blogpost. When we write the blogpost, we try to put there the highlights that might attract the most people or the announcement we want to make. A specific prop in a specific component is something that only person that is really interested into should look for in the Changelog or in the documentation.

[slorber]

Thanks

Forgot that Oskar said Swift template was for 0.77

I understand and doubt many will use CSS isolate, even most web devs never heard of it 😄 What I usually do for Docusaurus is add all these smaller changes in a list after the highlights: https://docusaurus.io/blog/releases/3.5#other-changes

[cipolleschi]

@blakef can we fix the PR? it fails to lint, build and deploy.