--- title: Welcoming the Next Generation of Hermes | daily.dev description: React Native 0.82 introduces experimental support for Hermes V1, the next generation of the Hermes JavaScript engine. While it doesn't yet include the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/welcoming-the-next-generation-of-hermes-tv8cmeduu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Welcoming the Next Generation of Hermes | daily.dev og:description: React Native 0.82 introduces experimental support for Hermes V1, the next generation of the Hermes JavaScript engine. While it doesn't yet include the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/welcoming-the-next-generation-of-hermes-tv8cmeduu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tv8CmEdUU.png og:image:alt: Welcoming the Next Generation of Hermes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Welcoming the Next Generation of Hermes **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary React Native 0.82 introduces experimental support for Hermes V1, the next generation of the Hermes JavaScript engine. While it doesn't yet include the much-anticipated 'Static Hermes' features like JIT compilation, native binary output, or type-based optimizations, it delivers a new bytecode compiler and VM with meaningful performance gains. Real-world testing in the Expensify app showed TTI improvements of 2.5–7.6%, bundle load time improvements of 3–9%, and render time improvements of ~7% on both platforms. The post explains what Hermes V1 is, how it differs from Static Hermes, and provides step-by-step instructions for enabling it on iOS and Android, including the necessary package overrides and build-from-source configuration for Android. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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