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Hotfix

This release is primarily aimed at addressing issues with ANRs using multiline TextInput on Samsung devices (https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35936, https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/35590).

Fixed

• Use logical operator instead of bit operation in Yoga (c3ad8 by @cuva)

Android specific

• Minimize EditText Spans 8/N: CustomStyleSpan (b384bb613b by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize EditText Spans 6/N: letterSpacing (5791cf1f7b by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 5/N: Strikethrough and Underline (0869ea29db by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 4/N: ReactForegroundColorSpan (8c9c8ba5ad by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 3/N: ReactBackgroundColorSpan (cc0ba57ea4 by @NickGerleman)
• Minimize Spans 1/N: Fix precedence (1743dd7ab4 by @NickGerleman)
• Fix measurement of uncontrolled TextInput after edit (8a0fe30591 by @NickGerleman)

You can find the whole changelog history in the changelog.md file.