Release 9.7.0

Bumps Rive Android to 10.4.5 and iOS to 6.12.1

9.7.0 (2025-11-10)

Features

• add comprehensive CI workflow (865258e)
• add native SDK version customization (f227074)
• warn for unreferenced assets (1c6884a)

Bug Fixes

• always run pod install to generate codegen files (c05ff54)
• include codegen files in CocoaPods cache (4c4106e)
• iOS broken builds because of an extra space character (110f834)
• remove touchable layer in JS to avoid duplicated pointer events (7514d4a)
• replace force unwrapping with safe casting in RiveReactNativeViewManager (f181da1), closes #376
• improve URL validation and file loading in iOS, PR
• support file asset loading on android, PR

Release 9.6.2

Bumps Rive Android to 10.4.5 and iOS to 6.12.0

Release 9.6.1

Fixes Android build errors on the latest Expo. Resolves:

• #367
• #368

Release 9.6.0

Bump to Rive Android 6.11.4 and iOS 6.11.4

Notable fixes:

• This resolves several rendering issues on Android.
• Resolves several low-level memory issues and crashes on both iOS and Android.

Please see the change log for Rive native iOS and native Android for more details.

Release 9.5.0

Bumps iOS to: 6.11.1 and Android to 10.4.1

See the respective iOS and Android release notes for updates.

Notable fix on Android:

• This release refactors how the JNIRenderer object in the Legacy API is cleaned up, solving an existing issue with potential ANRs.
• It also solves an issue with Mali T720 devices.

Release 9.4.0

Bumps iOS to: 6.11.0 and Android to 10.3.1

See the respective iOS and Android release notes for updates.

Notable fix on Android:
Solves a lifetime race condition with file asset loaders. This would sometimes manifest as a SEGV when tearing down the Rive view.

Release 9.3.4

9.3.4 (2025-06-05)

Bug Fixes

• resourceName from path for path with subfolders on iOS Release (150e335)
• support downloaded assets (e.g. EAS Updates) (632240e)

Release 9.3.3

9.3.3 (2025-06-05)

Bug Fixes

• init Rive File manually for network .riv files (aa17793)

Release 9.3.2

9.3.2 (2025-05-29)

Release 9.3.1

9.3.1 (2025-05-16)

Rive native iOS

• Fixes an issue where Rive graphics on external displays would be paused when the main device was locked
• Fixes an issue where JPEG and PNG images were not getting decoded on tvOS

Rive native Android

• Fixes the Rive Renderer (default on versions 10+) on certain ARM Mali devices. This would manifest as rainbow colored squares covering the screen. This was due to uninitialized pixel local storage, due to scant details in the specification.
• Includes the beginnings of the new threading model (not currently being used) which will ultimately replace the existing JNIRenderer setup.