fireEvent.select does not wrap its automatic native focus in act #1471

This report was prepared with autonomous AI-agent assistance; it has not received human review.

On current main with React 18.3.1, fireEvent.select focuses an unfocused input or textarea, but React state updates in its onFocus and the previous element's onBlur are not flushed before the call returns. React also reports updates outside act.

import * as React from 'react'
import {render, screen, fireEvent} from '@testing-library/react'

function Example() {
  const [focused, setFocused] = React.useState(false)
  const [blurred, setBlurred] = React.useState(false)
  return <>
    <input aria-label="previous" onBlur={() => setBlurred(true)} />
    <input aria-label="selection" onFocus={() => setFocused(true)}
      data-focused={focused} data-blurred={blurred} />
  </>
}
render(<Example />)
screen.getByRole('textbox', {name: 'previous'}).focus()
const input = screen.getByRole('textbox', {name: 'selection'})
fireEvent.select(input)
expect(document.activeElement).toBe(input) // passes
expect(input.getAttribute('data-focused')).toBe('true') // receives false
expect(input.getAttribute('data-blurred')).toBe('true')

The existing native node.focus() call in src/fire-event.js is outside the configured eventWrapper, unlike the surrounding select and keyup dispatches. Wrapping that same native focus call fixes the focus/blur updates without synthesizing focus events or changing their order.

Verified against rebuilt original and fixed public dist/pure exports on macOS, Node 18.20.8/24.21.0, React 18.3.1 and jsdom 20.0.3. Formal regressions fail twice on original production with two passing controls. The existing worker_threads MessageChannel test shim keeps raw Jest alive after tests in this environment; an evidence-only native Node setImmediate bridge permits natural exit. No forced exit or repository configuration change is part of the fix.

Related: #685 established automatic act wrapping; #1214 proposes a broader asynchronous fireEvent API, and #1429 changes event argument forwarding. Neither wraps select's native focus call.