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Xamarin.Mac 5.8 Release Notes

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  • 04/04/2019

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To see installation instructions for both Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio 2019, please visit https://releases.xamarin.com/

Requirements

  • The latest features and APIs requires Xcode 10.2 and the bundled macOS SDK
  • Apple Xcode 10.2 requires a Mac running OSX 10.14.3 (Mojave) or newer

What's New in this Release

Support for Xcode 10.2

For more information you can consult the Xcode 10.2 release notes from Apple.

Support for macOS 10.14.4

For more information you can consult the macOS 10.14.4 release notes from Apple.

Release History

This version of Xamarin.Mac corresponds to our 16.0 (d16-0) milestone and includes support for Xcode 10.2.

  • May 2, 2019 - Xamarin.Mac 5.8.0.2
  • April 4, 2019 - Xamarin.Mac 5.8.0.0

You can learn more about how we ship our releases in the Visual Studio 2019 Release Rhythm document.

May 2, 2019 - Xamarin.Mac 5.8.0.2

This is a newer build, to match Xamarin.iOS, but does not include any specific fix for Xamarin.Mac.

April 4, 2019 - Xamarin.Mac 5.8.0.0

This release is based on Xamarin.Mac 5.6 (d16-0) and the Xcode 10.2 final release.

Using an older Xcode version

Using an older Xcode version (than the one mentioned in the above requirements) is often possible. For more information see the following documentation.

API Diff

The following documents contains a complete list of the API changes since our (5.4) stable release:

Integrated Mono Features/Fixes

Xamarin.iOS uses a customized runtime and base class libraries (BCL) from Mono 5.18 Commit 163f45d8

Feedback welcome

Your feedback is important to us. If there are any problems with this release, check the Xamarin.Mac Forums and xamarin-macios Issue Tracker for existing issues. If you do not find any matching issue, please feel free to start a new discussion and report an issue.

Open Source

Xamarin.Mac is based on the following open-source repositories: