Microsoft retired the hosted Visual Studio App Center service on March 31, 2025. That included the managed service many React Native teams knew through CodePush, although Microsoft also released a self-hostable CodePush server. The service retirement did not remove the underlying need.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/gfean/life-after-codepush-choosing-an-ota-update-strategy-for-react-native-in-2026-56mi)