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What's Changed
This release adds support for Native AOT and UWP for .NET 9. As well as improvements to SwitchPresenter and adds SwitchConverter among other APIs, see the blog for a breakdown. Individual changes since 8.1 below.
Important Changes
Dependencies/TFM
The Toolkit's dependencies have been updated to WindowsAppSDK 1.6 and Uno Platform 5.5 versions to take in fixes and updates we needed to support .NET 8 and address other issues within the Toolkit. As usual, the Toolkit should be forward compatible with minor versions of these libraries and frameworks.
We've also updated our Win2D dependency in this PR which now means the base TFM required for building is again 19041 and should work with the default WinUI templates. We know this caused a lot of confusion for folks with the 8.1 release.
❗ Note: We've also updated to XAML Behaviors 3.0 which unifies the namespaces for behaviors, you'll need to apply that alignment when upgrading to change Microsoft.Xaml.Interactions.Core to Microsoft.Xaml.Interactivity.
Highlights
- Updated to WinAppSdk 1.6, fixed AoT annotations by @Arlodotexe in #457
- Refactor MultiTarget, fix consuming uwp from net9.0-windows by @Arlodotexe in #591
- SwitchPresenter 2.0 and the new SwitchConverter 🦙❤️ by @michael-hawker in #550
- Enable 'AcrylicBrush' in WinUI 3 again by @Sergio0694 in #488
- Improvements to DispatcherQueueTimer.Debounce extension by @michael-hawker in #569
Samples/Docs
- Erinwoo/media samples by @michael-hawker in #654
- Updated readme by @niels9001 in #652
- Fixed AoT data binding in IncrementalLoadingCollectionSample by @Arlodotexe in #531
- Fixes #513 - AdvancedCollectionView not working with NativeAoT by @michael-hawker in #535
- Fix invalid XML comment in SettingsExpander by @michael-hawker in #646
- chore: update typos in class properties summary by @ajpinedam in #471
- Fixed a small typo by @HotCakeX in #586
- Fixed a typo by @HotCakeX in #588
Bug Fixes
- Update _toolTip even if toolTipText isn't available by @dotMorten in #479
- Fix: DockPanel measure fix by @Poker-sang in #618
- Hook up TokenizingTextBox AutoSuggestBoxStyle by @miksalmon in #657
- Fix issue with Windows 11 ListViewStyle by @TopperDEL in #566
- Fix: StaggeredLayout division bug by @Poker-sang in #574
- Fix: prevent StaggeredLayout floating point errors by @Poker-sang in #573
- Fix analyzer warnings for CsWinRTAotWarningLevel 2 by @Arlodotexe in #507
- Updated Win2d, fixed AttachedCardShadow under NativeAoT by @Arlodotexe in #526
- Fix: ColorPicker Binding failed by @Poker-sang in #579
Infrastructure
- Update Directory.Build.props to Version 8.2 by @michael-hawker in #483
- Fixed Codespace container build failure by @Arlodotexe in #458
- Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK to 1.6-preview2 by @Arlodotexe in #492
- Update Microsoft.WindowsAppSdk to 1.6 stable by @Arlodotexe in #503
- Run CI when merging to dev/* branches by @Arlodotexe in #504
- Run CI when pushing to dev/* branches by @Arlodotexe in #505
- Merge patch 8.1.240916 into main by @Arlodotexe in #508
- Fixed failed NuGet validation due to webview2 reference by @michael-hawker in #521
- Update Microsoft.Graphics.Win2D package reference to version 1.3.0, downgrade TFM back to 19041 by @Arlodotexe in #540
- Update config.yml by @Arlodotexe in #539
- Update tooling pointer, bump global.json to 8.0.403 by @Arlodotexe in #541
- Specify directory for dotnet to install to and execute from. by @Arlodotexe in #567
- Update tooling pointer by @michael-hawker in #572
- Fix solution generation via default .bat by @Arlodotexe in #580
- Enable .NET 8 for uwp MultiTarget, upgrade packages by @Arlodotexe in #584
- Fixed an issue where ExcludeMultiTargets wasn't working as expected by @Arlodotexe in #592
- Bump Win2D dependencies by @Sergio0694 in #594
- Bump tooling pointer by @Sergio0694 in #595
- Fix sudden CI errors by @Arlodotexe in #609
- Update XamlBehaviors to 3.0.0 by @Sergio0694 in #613
- Update WinUI 2 to 2.8.7 stable by @Sergio0694 in #620
- Fixes solution generation issues by updating slngen by @Arlodotexe in #638
- Update tooling with latest fixes and improvements by @Arlodotexe in #645
- Align RootNamespace across tests to remove "Experiment" suffix by @Arlodotexe in #659
- Removed the MainLatest feed from nuget.config by @Arlodotexe in #666
New Contributors
- @Sergio0694 made their first contribution in #488
- @dotMorten made their first contribution in #479
- @ajpinedam made their first contribution in #471
- @TopperDEL made their first contribution in #566
- @HotCakeX made their first contribution in #586
- @miksalmon made their first contribution in #657
Any known AOT issues are tracked here, please open new issues for any not on that list if you discover them, thank you.
Full Changelog: v8.1.240916...v8.2.250402
