.NET MAUI 8.0.40 (Service Release 5)

[davidortinau]

This release is now available via NuGet.org and is compatible with the latest .NET 8 workload.

<ItemGroup>
  <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Maui.Controls" Version="8.0.40" />
  <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility" Version="8.0.40" />
</ItemGroup>

The focus of our service releases is resolving high-impact bugs for developers upgrading their applications from Xamarin to .NET 8.

• Release notes

[nll]

What is the "latest .NET 8 workload" ? How do we make sure that we have it / are using it ?

[cytoph]

Is it just me or is the 8.0.40 workload not yet available? I see it on NuGet, but when I use dotnet workload install the version I get is still 8.0.21.

[dartasen]

Yes 8.0.21 workload is the latest workload yet.
Nugets are released independently from workloads that are shipped sometimes with visual studio release

[cytoph]

Aaah, that makes sense. Thank you for your fast answer. Is there any way to be notified if there's a newer version of the workload available? For releases here I could for example use the RSS feed and get notification when there's a new release, but I wouldn't know how to do the same for new workload versions.

[dartasen]

@cytoph Hmmm, i'm not aware of any easy pre-made solution but dotnet workload list is fetching some manifests to notify any update so I guess you could hit the api that exposes workload manifests and compare with your installed version

[cytoph]

Yeah, that was my idea, too. But I wasn't able to find out which api/endpoint it is calling for that 🤔

[eqmarcin]

Thanks. Hopefully fixes for memory leaks will be working as expected.

[xyeie]

The current version still experiences numerous performance issues; when can we expect a smooth user experience? Navigating to pages featuring CollectionView or BindingLayout is notably sluggish, with more complex pages suffering from even greater delays, to the point where it feels slower than web-based interfaces.

[MartyIX]

Not sure what platforms you are interested. However, web-based interfaces are imho much faster than what MAUI can achieve now on Windows because interop calls are simply too costly and MAUI does a lot of unnecessary calls right now. I suspect that it's somewhat similar for other supported platforms.

If there is a particular scenario you would want to optimize, you can profile your app and contribute a fix. That's what I have been doing https://github.com/dotnet/maui/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AMartyIX+is%3Aclosed. It seems the fastest option at this point to optimize stuff one cares for. There are quite lot of "low hanging fruit" optimization opportunities. Some people are offendee by this suggestion but I see great value in any form of contribution (testing, debugging an issue, measuring perf, providing a PR). It counts for you and for the rest of us.