# Build Cache for React Native v0.16.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/build-cache-for-react-native-v0-16-1/26241>\
**Category:** Changelog\
**Tags:** step-update\
**Created:** [September 4, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/build-cache-for-react-native-v0-16-1/26241 "2026-09-04T14:17:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/build-cache-for-react-native-v0-16-1/26241/1 "2026-09-04T14:17:58Z")

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## What’s Changed

- Bump the Bitrise Build Cache CLI to v3.8.1. The generated Gradle init script no longer carries an `authToken` for the cache and analytics plugins — `remote-cache` 2.1.0 and `gradle-analytics` 3.2.3 now resolve their own token by running `bitrise-build-cache auth token`. That is what lets the Gradle configuration cache work with a rotating per-build JWT: a token baked into the init script is a configuration input, so it invalidated the cache whenever it changed. `test-distribution` still receives a token.
- `activate gradle` now exports `BITRISE_BUILD_CACHE_CLI` with the CLI’s own path. The plugins look for the CLI only in that variable, on `$PATH` and in `~/.bitrise/bin`, while this step installs it elsewhere — without the export they would find no CLI, and with no token in the init script there would be nothing to fall back on. React Native builds reach this same Gradle path via `activate react-native`, so they get both changes.
- No intervening CLI versions: 0.16.0 shipped v3.8.0, so this release picks up v3.8.1 only.
- Also picks up the Gradle plugin bumps: `common` 1.0.8, `remote-cache` 2.1.0, `gradle-analytics` 3.2.3, `test-distribution` 2.2.11.

> **[Release 0.16.1 · bitrise-steplib/bitrise-step-activate-react-native-features](https://github.com/bitrise-steplib/bitrise-step-activate-react-native-features/releases/0.16.1)**
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> What's Changed
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> Bump the Bitrise Build Cache CLI to v3.8.1. The generated Gradle init script no longer carries an authToken for the cache and analytics plugins — remote-cache 2.1.0 and gradle-analy...