Xamarin.Mac 4.6 Release Notes
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Requirements
- The latest features and API requires Xcode 9.4 and the bundled macOS SDKs;
- Apple Xcode 9.4 requires a Mac running OSX 10.13.2 (High Sierra) or newer
What's New in this Release
API Enhancements
- 3544 - [foundation] Avoid unnecessary native calls for
NSNull.Null
- 3968 - [foundation] Implement NSUrlProtocolClient properly on macOS
- 4001 - [security] Enable
SSL[Get|Set]AlpnProtocols
since it's now available in macOS 10.13.4
Tooling Enhancements
- 3525 - Build assemblies we ship deterministically, i.e.
csc -deterministic
- 3926 - [msbuild] Use a response file in
MmpTaskBase
- 3869 - [generator] Allow
[WrapAttribute]
usage with interface protocols
Performance Enhancements
- Optimize IsCustomType, which can dramatically improves creating new NSObject instances under the dynamic registrar.
- Optimize NSActionDispatcher to reduce allocations and number of indirections in event callbacks.
- Optimize ReaderParameters instances in CoreResolver which is used at build time by MMP.
Release History
This version Xamarin.Mac correspond to our 15.8 (d15-8
) milestone.
- August 20, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.13
- July 24, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.11
- July 11, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.10
- June 21, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.4
- May 31, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.5.0.280
- May 7, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.5.0.280
You can learn more about how we ship our releases in the Visual Studio 2017 Release Rhythm document.
July 24, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.13
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 stable release.
Issue Fixed
- 649776 - [msbuild] Don't put gcc/linker flags in the response file, since Mono.Options doesn't support escaping quotes
July 24, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.11
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 5 release.
July 11, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.10
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 4 release.
Issues Fixed
- 8866 - [profiler] Fix
jit
profiler crash
June 21, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.6.0.4
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3 release.
- This preview includes Xcode 9.4 support for Xamarin.Mac.
A number of performance enhancements are also new:
- Optimize IsCustomType, which can dramatically improves creating new NSObject instances under the dynamic registrar.
- Optimize NSActionDispatcher to reduce allocations and number of indirections in event callbacks.
- Optimize ReaderParameters instances in CoreResolver which is used at build time by MMP.
Issues Fixed
- 4129 - [compression] Use the correct linking flags for older OS versions
- 4147 - [mono] Removal of
System.Memory
facade due to incompatibilities
May 31, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.5.0.331
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 2 release.
Issues Fixed
- 4030 - [scenekit]
SCNPhysicsShape.Create
transforms parameter is bound incorrectly - 4031 - [scenekit]
SCNHitTestOptions SearchMode
bound incorrectly - 4067 - [msbuild] Unable to build CocoaApp with Modern target after adding .NET Standard 2.0 library
- 4072 - [mtouch][mmp]
BlockProxy
attribute with invalid type will causeMT0000
build error - 4087 - [scenekit] Crash when setting RenderingApi on
SCNRenderingOptions
May 7, 2018 - Xamarin.Mac 4.5.0.280
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1 release.
Issues Fixed
- 3199 - [msbuild] Skip reference assemblies passed to
mmp
- 3674 - [msbuild] Correctly determine whenther Xamarin.Mac builds require a provisioning profile
- 3716 - [gameplaykit] Fix naming of
GKNoise.DisplaceX
- 3778 - [appkit] Adds
[NullAllowed]
toNSTableView.RegisterNib
- 3779 - [appkit] Adds
[NullAllowed]
toNSGridCell.ContentView
- 3792 - [appkit] Adds
[NullAllowed]
toNSTableCellView.ObjectValue
- 3824 - [appkit] Fix default values for touchbar APIs in
NSTextViewDelegate
- 3830 - [runtime] Don't throw exceptions when checking if a token reference exists (and not finding any)
- 3868 - [appkit] Fix stack overflow in
NSApplication.NextEvent
binding - 3871 - [coretext] Fix
GetMatchingFontDescriptors
overload with sort callback - 3905 - [msbuild] Catch
ArgumentException
ifIBToolTask
fails to load plist output - 3922 - [msbuild] Fixed
TargetDevice
typo - 3943 - [runtime] Don't lock while calling selectors that can up calling managed code
- 3944 - [spritekit] Fix
SKActionTimingFunction
delegate signature
Integrated Mono Features/Fixes
Xamarin.Mac uses a customized runtime and base class libraries (BCL) from Mono.
Additional information can be found in Mono release notes.
API Diff
This document contains a complete list of the API changes since the Xamarin.Mac 4.4 stable release.
Feedback welcome
Your feedback is important to us. If there are any problems with this release, check the Xamarin.Mac Forums for existing issues. If you do not find any matching issue, please feel free to start a new discussion.
Open Source
Xamarin.Mac is based on the following open-source repositories:
- xamarin-macios branch
d15-8
- mono branch
2018-02