.NET 7.0 Preview 3

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.NET 7.0 Preview 2

Release

MSBuild 17.1.1

This version of MSBuild shipped with .NET SDK 6.0.202 and includes a fix for dotnet/sdk#23498.

What's Changed

• Revert "Loosen version comparisons in loading assemblies (#7042)" by @rainersigwald in #7415
• Update official build references to tasks and pools that recently started failing by @rainersigwald in #7416

Full Changelog: v17.1.0...v17.1.1

.NET 7.0 Preview 1

Release

.NET 6.0

Release

MSBuild 17.0.0

This version of MSBuild shipped with Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0.0 and .NET SDK 6.0.100.

What's new

• MSBuild now reports its version as 17 and uses Visual Studio 2022 versions of tasks where appropriate.
• MSBuild now targets .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET 6.0.
• 64-bit MSBuild is now used for builds from Visual Studio.
• Binary logs are smaller and have more information.
• MSBuildCopyContentTransitively is now on by default, ensuring consistency in output folders on incremental builds.
• The method GetType() can no longer be called in property functions.

Detailed release notes

Added

• Intrinsic tasks now log their location (#6397). Thanks, @KirillOsenkov!
• TargetSkippedEventArgs now has TargetSkipReason and OriginalBuildEventContext (#6402, #6577). Thanks, @KirillOsenkov!
• TaskStarted events now log line and column (#6399). Thanks, @KirillOsenkov!
• ETW trace events for PerformDependencyAnalysis (#6658), WriteLinesToFile (#6670), CopyUpToDate (#6661).
• If the environment variable MSBuildDebugEngine is set, MSBuild will create binary logs for all operations to MSBUILDDEBUGPATH regardless of how it is called (#6639, #6792).
• ProjectReferences can now negotiate Platform (#6655, #6724, #6889).
• Tasks can now call TaskLoggingHelper.LogsMessagesOfImportance to determine if any attached logger would preserve a log message before constructing it (to save time in the not-being-logged case) (#6381, #6737).
• Support referencing assemblies with generic attributes (#6735). Thanks, @davidwrighton!
• XSD-based MSBuild IntelliSense now supports ImplicitUsings and Using items (#6755), InternalsVisibleTo (#6778), Windows Forms properties (#6860), DebugType (#6849), and SatelliteResourceLanguages (#6861). Thanks, @pranavkm, @DamianEdwards, @RussKie, and @drewnoakes!
• Tasks can now call TaskLoggingHelper.IsTaskInputLoggingEnabled and avoid redundant logging of inputs (#6803).
• Support extracting resource namespace from C# source that uses file-scoped namespaces (#6881).

Changed

• The on-disk format of serialized caches has changed (#6350, #6324, #6490, #6674).
• MSBuild is now signed with a new certificate (#6448).
• BuildParameters.DisableInprocNode now applies to more processes (#6400).
• VCTargetsPath now defaults to v170 (#6550).
• MSBuild no longer logs Building with tools version "Current" (#6627). Thanks, @KirillOsenkov!
• Text loggers now log properties and items at the end of evaluation (#6535).
• MSBuildCopyContentTransitively is now on by default, ensuring consistency in output folders on incremental builds (#6622, #6703).
• MSBuild on .NET 6 has improved task-assembly-reference fallback behavior (#6558).
• MSBuild features gated on the 16.8 changewave are now nonconfigurable (#6634).
• The deprecated import of $(CoreCrossTargetingTargetsPath) was removed (#6668). Thanks, @Nirmal4G!
• Improved error message for MSB4213 (#6640).
• The method GetType() can no longer be called in property functions (#6769).
• MSBuild is now fully NGENed by Visual Studio setup (#6764).
• MSBuild (and Visual Studio) now reference System.Text.Json 5.0.2 (#6784). Thanks, @JakeRadMSFT!
• Default to SHA2 digest for ClickOnce manifest when certificate signing algorithm is sha256/384/512 (#6882).

Fixed

• Solution builds should work when using the secret environment variable MSBUILDNOINPROCNODE (#6385).
• Solution extensions can now use BeforeTargets="ValidateSolutionConfiguration" (#6454).
• Performance improvements (#6529, #6556, #6598, #6632, #6669, #6671, #6666, #6678, #6680, #6705, #6595, #6716, #6786, #6816, #6832, #6845).
• Single-file ClickOnce publish includes file association icons (#6578).
• Improved robustness in error handling of libraries without resources (#6546).
• Fixed missing information in Project's DebuggerDisplay (#6650).
• ResolveAssemblyReferences output paths are now output in normalized form (#6533).
• Improved handling of satellite assemblies in ClickOnce (#6665).
• Roslyn code analyzers are no longer run during XAML precompilation (#6676). Thanks, @jlaanstra!
• 64-bit API callers no longer need to set MSBUILD_EXE_PATH (#6683, #6746).
• EvaluateStop ETW events are now automatically correlated with EvaluateStart (#6725).
• Evaluation time is included in text performance traces (#6725).
• Add PackageDescription to Microsoft.NET.StringTools (#6740).
• Fixed deadlock between ExecuteSubmission and LoggingService (#6717).
• Narrowed conditions where MSBuild would blame NuGet for SDK resolution problems (#6742).
• CombineTargetFrameworkInfoProperties no longer fails on portable framework names (#6699).
• Avoid needless builds of GenerateBindingRedirects (#6726).
• The solution configuration is now passed to experimental cache plugins (#6738).
• Clearer errors when SDK resolvers throw exceptions (#6763).
• Improved errors from InternableString.ExpensiveConvertToString (#6798).
• Binding redirects for all System.* assemblies updated (#6830).
• Fixed deadlock between BuildManager and LoggingService (#6837).
• Log message arguments for warnings and errors (#6804). Thanks, @KirillOsenkov!
• Use static CoreClrAssemblyLoader for SDK resolvers (#6864). Thanks, @marcin-krystianc!
• Avoid break caused by fix and workaround for AL path colliding (#6884).
• Support private-use area Unicode characters in paths passed to XslTransformation (#6863, #6946). Thanks, @lanfeust69!
• Use the correct .NET host when called from a .NET 6.0 application (#6890).

Infrastructure

• This repo now builds with Arcade 6.0 (#6143).
• Use newer Ubuntu versions for Linux CI builds (#6488).
• MSBuild now uses Arcade-powered source build (#6387).
• Improved repo issue templates and automation (#6557).
• Whitespace cleanup (#6565).
• This repo no longer needs to double-specify the SDK version (#6596).
• Simplify references to TargetFramework using new intrinsics (#5799).
• Reference the Microsoft.DotNet.XUnitExtensions package from Arcade instead of our fork (#6638).
• Use BannedApiAnalyzers (#6675).
• Enable analyzers for the MSBuild repo with rules similar to dotnet/runtime (#5656). Thanks, @elachlan!
• Improved internal OptProf training scenarios (#6758).
• Delete Unreachable code (#6805). Thanks, @KirillOsenkov!
• Upgrade System.Net.Http package version used in tests (#6879).

Documentation

• Use GitHub-generated Markdown tables of contents (#6760).
• Fixed validation issues in docs build (#6744).
• Descriptions of labels in use in this repo (#6873).

.NET 5.0.11

Release

.NET 6.0 RC 1

Release

.NET 6.0 Preview 7

Release

MSBuild 16.11.0

MSBuild 16.11.0

This version of MSBuild shipped with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.0 and .NET SDK 5.0.400.

What's new

• MSBuild now supports long paths in the 64-bit amd64\MSBuild.exe executable.
• New version properties MSBuildFileVersion (4-part, matches file version) and MSBuildSemanticVersion (matches package versions) are now available for use (#6534).

Detailed release notes

Added

• Additional properties documented and available for completion in Visual Studio (#6500, #6530).
• The SignFile task is now available in MSBuild on .NET 5.0 (#6509). Thanks, @Zastai!
• New version properties MSBuildFileVersion (4-part, matches file version) and MSBuildSemanticVersion (matches package versions) are now available for use (#6534).

Changed

• When using the experimental cache API, schedule proxy builds to the in-proc node for performance (#6386).
• Experimental cache queries are now executed in parallel (#6468).
• The ETW events generated in ResolveAssemblyReference now include an approximation of the "size" of the RAR request (#6410).

Fixed

• Fixed memory leak in ProjectRootElement.Reload (#6457).
• Added locking to avoid race conditions in BuildManager (#6412).
• Allow ResolveAssemblyReferences precomputed cache files to be in read-only locations (#6393).
• 64-bit al.exe is used when targeting 64-bit architectures (for real this time) (#6484).
• Builds with ProduceOnlyReferenceAssembly no longer expect debug symbols to be produced (#6511). Thanks, @Zastai!
• 64-bit MSBuild.exe supports long paths (and other .NET default behaviors) (#6562).
• Non-graph builds no longer crash in the experimental project cache (#6568).
• The experimental project cache is initialized only once (#6569).
• The experimental project cache no longer tries to schedule proxy builds to the in-proc node (#6635).

Infrastructure

• Use a packaged C# compiler to avoid changes in reference assembly generation caused by compiler changes (#6431).
• Use more resilient test-result upload patterns (#6489).
• Conditional compilation for .NET Core within our repo now includes new .NET 5.0+ runtimes (#6538).
• Switched to OneLocBuild for localization PRs (#6561).
• Moved to latest Ubuntu image for PR test legs (#6573).