[Due for payment 2026-05-20] Bump react-native-worklets to 0.8.1

[mountiny]

Bump react-native-worklets to version 0.8.1. Required to enable react-native-nitro-fetch (see #90023).

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @mallenexpensify

[roryabraham]

The PRs for this can be taken off hold - they need to be cleaned up, presumably merge main, and get CI passing.

[chrispader]

Will do now!

[roryabraham]

PRs merged

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.3.73-4 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• [NoQA] chore: bump react-native-worklets to version 0.8.1 #90088

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2026-05-20. 🎊

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