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  • v6.0-preview2 Changes

    January 08, 2020

    💻 UI Improvements

    🆕 New Language Features

    • 👌 Support for generic and static local functions
    • 🛠 C# 7.3 pattern-based fixed statement

    ✨ Enhancements

    • 👌 Support VB Select Case on string
    • Analyzer follow type forwarders (#1846 by @yyjdelete)

    🐛 Bug fixes

    • Display System.Void as struct (#1835 by @yyjdelete)
    • Properly decompile auto events with tuples
    • Do not change accessibility of non-transformed local functions
    • 👌 Improve drag&drop support (#1860)
    • 🛠 Fix bug in stackalloc initializer detection involving Span<decimal> (see #1855 by @yyjdelete)
    • 🛠 Fix DotNetCorePathFinder to properly support netstandard2.1

    dotnet ilspycmd Tool

    • 🆕 New option: usepdb (for improved variable naming)
    • 💥 Breaking change: option debuginfo renamed to genpdb

  • v6.0-preview1 Changes

    December 02, 2019

    💥 BREAKING CHANGES / IN DEVELOPMENT

    • ✅ The main new UI feature is a multi-tab docking interface. Please put it to the test and report bugs!
    • ILSpy 6.0 will require at least .NET 4.7.2 (v5.0 required .NET 4.6.2)

    🆕 New Language Features

    🆕 New Features

    🛠 Decompiler Engine Improvements & Bugfixes

    • ➕ Added struct constructor initializer pattern
    • 🛠 DotNetCorePathFinder: Various bug fixes when working with .net core assemblies
    • Transform post-increment on float/double (#1769 thanks to @Chicken-Bones)
    • 🛠 Fix extra minus sign when formatting -0 on .NET Core 3.0 (#1790 thanks to @Chicken-Bones)
    • 🛠 Fix sealed modifier on interface methods with no body (#1792 thanks to @Chicken-Bones)
    • 🛠 Fix NullReferenceException when foreach decompilation is turned off (#1754 thanks to @davidwengier)
    • 🛠 Fixed performance problem when using an assembly from a MemoryStream (#1763 thanks to @yyjdelete)

    💻 UI Improvements

    • 🆕 New icons (based on VS 2017 icon pack) (#1704 thanks to @Rpinski)
    • 👉 Use XAML for icons (high DPI)
    • 👀 Docking and multi tab support (see #1725 and #1801)
    • RichText Tooltips (#1654)
    • Folding for XAML output (thanks to @jogibear9988)

    dotnet ilspycmd Tool

    • 🚚 #1740: Add LanguageVersion, RemoveDeadCode and RemoveDeadStores switches

  • v5.0.2 Changes

    November 02, 2019

    🚀 This is a bug fix release.

    • 🛠 Fix crash while resolving .NET core references
    • Respect language settings in display class transformation
    • 👉 Use specialized generic types if a specialized variable is captured
    • Stack overflow when decompiling a bool -> bool? conversion
    • Expand using declarations setting was not saved

  • v5.0.1 Changes

    October 07, 2019

    🚀 This is a bug fix release.

    • 🛠 VSIX: Fixes for reference assemblies, type navigation
    • PDBgen: Fix for sequence points generation
    • ➕ Add support for null propagation on array access: arr?[i]
    • ➕ Additional smaller fixes and improvements

  • v5.0 Changes

    September 19, 2019

    ILSpy 5.0

    🆕 New Language Features

    🆕 New Features

    • Decompile a set of assemblies to a solution (#1550 by @dymanoid)
    • 🆕 New BAML Decompiler
    • 🏗 MSIX for Microsoft Store: @onovotny added build support (including Azure Pipelines).
    • 🏁 Generate VS Windows Forms Designer-compliant code if a method is identified as Windows Forms InitializeComponent
    • ➕ Added new RemoveDeadStores option.
    • ➕ Added new AlwaysShowEnumMemberValues option.

    🛠 Decompiler Engine Improvements & Bugfixes

    • 👌 Improved stability of decompiler and disassembler on invalid metadata tokens.
    • 👌 Improved decompilation in case not all types/references are available.
    • ➕ Added switch-on-string pattern for empty string case.
    • ➕ Add support for ReadOnlySpan<T> initialization pattern

    - 👌 Improved decompilation of ref readonly delegates and return types.

    • Improved decompilation of ref typed expressions, in particular ref/in extension methods and in parameters.
      • 👌 Improved support for Mono yield return state machines and closure types.
      • 👌 Improved decompilation of LINQ queries
      • PDB generator now can emit "method stepping information" for async #1422

    👌 Improvements & Bugfixes

    • 🛠 Many minor bug and stability fixes.
    • 👌 Improved performance in ILInlining step
    • VSIX: Fix issue of missing dependencies

    💻 UI Improvements

    • 💻 Avoid blocking the UI when waiting on assembly load while restoring the saved position in the treeview
    • 👌 Support obfuscated names in treeview and search #1359
    • 🖨 Escape non-printable characters in IL view
    • Rework C# decompiler options dialog (unify language settings panel)
    • 🔧 Make indentation of decompiled code configurable.
    • 🌐 Chinese translation by @maikebing (#1299) screenshots
    • Small improvements in search panel by @mcpiroman (#1476)
    • 👉 Show error message if an entity cannot be analyzed instead of crashing.
    • 👌 Improved linking in the decompiler view:
      • method group / delegate references
      • the constructor of an attribute is reachable, by clicking on the open/close parenthesis.
      • fixed fields are now properly linked
    • ➕ Added matching bracket highlighting
    • ⚡️ Updated to AvalonEdit 6.0 Preview

    dotnet ilspycmd Tool

    • ➕ Add -d|-debuginfo option See Demo app
    • ➕ Add -r|-referencepath option

    Architectural Changes

    • 👍 We dropped support for all TFMs except netstandard2.0 #1416
    • ✅ Reactivate many tests from old decompiler

    Known issues & limitations

    • C# 8.0 nullable reference types metadata only supports the latest format. Note that this is a breaking change and assemblies generated by older preview versions of C# 8 are not supported. (See #1619 (comment))
    • 👍 Generic local functions are not yet supported (#1588)
    • "Open assembly from GAC" may require administrator privileges (#1498)
    • 👍 Matching bracket highlighting does not yet support all language features that introduce new syntax.

  • v5.0-rc1 Changes

    September 09, 2019

    🆕 New Language Features

    👌 Improvements & Bugfixes

    • ➕ Added new RemoveDeadStores option.
    • ➕ Added switch-on-string pattern for empty string case.
    • 👌 Improved decompilation in case not all types/references are available.
    • 🛠 Many minor bug and stability fixes.

  • v5.0-preview4 Changes

    August 12, 2019

    🆕 New Language Features

    🆕 New Features

    👌 Improvements & Bugfixes

    • C# 8.0 nullable reference types metadata was updated to the latest format. Note that this is a breaking change and assemblies generated by older preview versions of C# 8 are no longer supported.
    • 👌 Improved decompilation of ref typed expressions, in particular ref/in extension methods and in parameters.
    • 👌 Improved support for Mono yield return state machines and closure types.
    • 👌 Improved stability of decompiler and disassembler on invalid metadata tokens.
    • 👀 Many minor bug and stability fixes. For a complete list of all changes since preview3 see here.

    💻 UI Improvements

    • 👌 Improved linking in the decompiler view:
      • method group / delegate references
      • the constructor of an attribute is reachable, by clicking on the open/close parenthesis.
    • ➕ Added matching bracket highlighting
    • ⚡️ Updated to AvalonEdit 6.0 Preview

    Known issues & limitations

    • C# 8.0 nullable reference types metadata was updated to the latest format. Note that this is a breaking change and assemblies generated by older preview versions of C# 8 are no longer supported. (See #1619 (comment))
    • 👍 Generic local functions are not yet supported (#1588)
    • "Open assembly from GAC" may require administrator privileges (#1498)
    • 👍 Matching bracket highlighting does not yet support all language features that introduce new syntax.

  • v5.0-preview3 Changes

    July 08, 2019

    This preview does not include any new language features.

    👌 Improvements & Bugfixes

    • VSIX: Fix issue of missing dependencies
    • 🏗 MSIX support: @onovotny added build support (including Azure Pipelines). Not published in the store yet, see #1540
    • ⚡️ Tests updated to latest Roslyn implementation
    • 🛠 Many minor bug and stability fixes (details)

  • v5.0-preview2 Changes

    May 12, 2019

    🆕 New Language Features

    • 📌 C# 7.3 Indexing movable fixed buffers: Fixed buffers can be indexed into without first being pinned.
    • 👉 Use Unsafe intrinsics to represent IL operations that cannot be expressed in C#.

    👌 Improvements & Bugfixes

    • 👌 Improved decompilation of ref readonly delegates and return types.
    • 👌 Improved linking and display of fixed fields in the decompiler view.
    • 👌 Improved support for C# 8.0 nullable reference types: dynamic?
    • 🛠 Many minor bug and stability fixes.

    💻 UI Improvements

    • Rework C# decompiler options dialog (unify language settings panel)
    • 🔧 Make indentation of decompiled code configurable.
    • 🌐 Chinese translation by @maikebing (#1299) screenshots
    • Small improvements in search panel by @mcpiroman (#1476)
    • 👉 Show error message if an entity cannot be analyzed instead of crashing.

  • v5.0-preview1 Changes

    March 10, 2019

    🆕 New Language Features

    • C# 8.0: Nullable Reference Types
    • C# 7.3: unmanaged generic constraint

    👌 Improvements & Bugfixes

    • PDB generator now can emit "method stepping information" for async #1422
    • 🏁 Generate VS Windows Forms Designer-compliant code if a method is identified as Windows Forms InitializeComponent
    • ➕ Add support for ReadOnlySpan initialization pattern
    • 👌 Improved decompilation of LINQ queries
    • 👌 Improved performance in ILInlining step
    • 🆕 New BAML Decompiler

    💻 UI Improvements

    • 💻 Avoid blocking the UI when waiting on assembly load while restoring the saved position in the treeview
    • 👌 Support obfuscated names in treeview and search #1359
    • 🖨 Escape non-printable characters in IL view
    • Reactivate SearchMsdnContextMenuEntry

    dotnet ilspycmd Tool

    • ➕ Add -d|-debuginfo option See Demo app
    • ➕ Add -r|-referencepath option

    Architectural Changes

    • 👍 We dropped support for all TFMs except netstandard2.0 #1416
    • ✅ Reactivate many tests from old decompiler