Mono 6.8.0.96 (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- [Mono.Debugger.Soft] Connections are not properly closed
- New arm64_32 architecture (watchOS 5) [arm64_32] make “Debug Mode” work on Watch series 4 with –interpreter
- Task calls SynchronizationContext.Post on cancelling
- DataContractSerializer is not available
- [Blazor] IL Linker not working correctly with IQueryable extensions
- condition ‘ji’ not met, with ‘dynamic’ and multithreading
- mono 5.20 hangs when called from native thread
- Null Pointer Exception after debugger pauses and then continues
- [iOS][Tests] There are a number of System.Numeric tests that fail on iOS 32b devices
- [iOS][Tests] A number of linq tests fail on iOS 32b devices
- [iOS][Tests] A number of tests from Microsoft.CSharp fail on iOS 32b devices.
- [iOS][Tests] Several corelib tests crash on iOS32b devices.
- [netcore] Make OverlappedTests.PackNegTest Pass
- [netcore] Make OverlappedTests.UnPackTest Pass
- MERP indefinitely hangs on application quit
- [debugger] Update client thread frames after SetIP.
- Mono.Net.Security.MonoTlsStream: Crash when stream appears to have already been disposed
- 1024 hard limit of open file descriptors
- Mono crashes during precompiling dll in fullaot mode
- Coverity: derefenrecing null in profiler (CID: 1307043) Skip degenerate qsort: num < 2, size == 0, base == 0
- [mini] run regression tests with fullaot+llvm
- typeof(object).GetMember(“”) does not return an empty array
- Native crash in ves_icall_System_Net_Sockets_Socket_Connect_internal
- IOException: Sharing violation on path …
- [netcore] AOT with unresolved dependencies hits asserts
- VS 16.2.0 regression: CopyToAsync from DeflateStream to GzipStream throws NotImplementedException
- Interpreter stack size is too large
- Embedded Mono hangs when using native threads
- Change netcore package to be using release builds
- LLVM: ““.AsSpan()[0] doesn’t throw IndexOutOfRangeException
- [wasm] Timers do not fire when run inside WebWorkers.
- Relocations in .text on arm
- [netcore] Regession with AOTed System.Private.CoreLib
- [llvm] Assertion: should not be reached at mini-llvm.c:7104
- [Mobile] DateTime.Now returns incorrect local time for one hour after entering DST in 39 locales.
- JitTests.Float fails on iOS devices in release mode on 2019-08
- Timezone data not handled correctly on FreeBSD
- System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(“\\.\pipe\pipename”): different results on Mono and .NET
- FileSystemEventArgs.FullPath throws ArgumentNullException
- make distclean fails after build w/ embedded zlib
- [netcore] Vector.CopyTo w/ LLVM emits wrong exception
- [WinForms] ControlBox property didn`t hide Close button and icon
- [merp] missing data in crashing reporting json native frames
- C# REPL Unusable on Mono 6 / Ubuntu 19
- Disposing the FileSystemWatcher does not close associated file descriptors
- SIGSEGV in mono_class_setup_vtable_general
- Date.Time parse issue (year 1948) Avoid creating un-representable DateTime for transition point
- Stream.ReadAsync continues on different thread
- mono_gc_finalize_notify spinning after process exit
- LLVM failed for String.GetHashCode
- [coop][interp] mono_threads_enter_gc_safe_region Cannot transition thread 0x1952b000 from STATE_BLOCKING with DO_BLOCKING
- Crash when debugging iOS application that throws on DispatchQueue
- [arm64_32] fix remaining regression tests
- [Wasm] Switch to PNSE FileWatcher & Exclude Tests
- [Wasm] Determine if System.Net.Http.UnitTests Failures are Relevant
- XmlSerializer Deserializing Property with same name as its enum type no longer works
- LLVM: recursive calls have overhead in JIT mode
- Starting in Mono 6.0 (2019-02), NotImplementedException prevents using StreamWriter with GZipStream for encodings that use a preamble
- File.GetCreationTimeUtc() returns the time last modified, not time created
- [merp] crash reports have Darwin kernel version in OSVersion field
- Out of bounds unhandled exception
- [wasm][xunit tests] RemoteExecutorTests.RemoteInvokeWritesToFile fails
- [wasm][xunit tests] System.Net.Security.Tests.SslStreamAlpnTests - MissingMethodException: Default constructor not found
- Regression: when debugger encounters a not-unhandled exception, it stops and shows “Dns.cs file not found” (Dns being the BCL class used)
- Marshalling managed exception contains cut off stacktraces
- SystemNative_CopyFile() call to fchmod() introduced in Mono 6.0 is not compatible with the external storage location on some Android OS versions and devices
- mono_aot_register_module conflicting definitions
- DriveInfo return empty space for system volume on MacOS 10.15 Catalina
- [merp] mono_summarize_unmanaged_stack tries to take a lock while calling decode_exception_debug_info
- System.BadImageFormatException when reflecting on BCL shipped with Mono
- mono_magic_trampoline being called more than expected
- Investigate heavy stack from System_Threading_Interlocked_Exchange_T_REF_T_REF__T_REF
- [merp] generate a crash report if process is killed with SIGTERM
- Debugging ‘async Task Name()' method makes app crash
- Await within method with return type Task makes debugging fail
- AOT + System.Reflection.Emit + ConstructorInfo doesn’t work as expected
- [Regression] Profiler’s calls log SIGABRTs when using GDI+ loader
- Delegate does not invoke target virtually
- Q: is using loader lock for domain seq_points access correct? (mono runtime) [runtime] Fix locking in mono_get_seq_points ().
- [merp] SendMicrosoftTelemetry icall doesn’t do any MERP logging when inducing a Managed Crash
- threadpool hang due to unlimited hill climbing
- Deadlock in GC during bridge callback from native thread on Android
- Mtouch argument interpreter crashes EntityFrameworkCore 3.0 iOS app
- [Bug] Segmentation Fault receiving message on WatchOS with debugger attached
- Native linking fails for armv7s
- [embedding] Chaining Mach exceptions to Mono signals using utility threads