React Native 0.81 introduces Android 16 support with mandatory edge-to-edge display, deprecates SafeAreaView in favor of community alternatives, removes built-in JavaScriptCore support, and adds experimental precompiled iOS builds that can reduce compile times by up to 10x. The release also bumps minimum requirements to Node.js

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