This release is based on .NET 10.0. Please make sure that you have it installed on your machine beforehand.

New Language Features

• C# 13: allows ref struct constraint


• C# 14: extension members


• #3467: C# 12 InlineArrays


• Update pattern detection to Roslyn 5.0 RTM


• #3500: Added .NET 10 as test target

User Interface

• Dedicated UI and Decompiler APIs for C# 14 extensions #3680


• Navigate visible history (see #3591 by @miloush)


• Removed translations (see #3648)


• #3521: Add API to set an initially highlighted entity after navigation


• Improve WordBreak in CustomDialog (see #3535 by @CreateAndInject)


• Use AssemblyWarning when AssemblyReference load faulted (see #3013 by @workgroupengineering)


• Refactoring of EntityToString API (see #3635)

Enhancements

• CSharpConversions: General improvements, fixing various missing rules for C# up to version 9.


• #3344: Support ckfinite IL opcode in decompiler


• #3563: Disassembler: Add support for ildasm /caverbal format


• Detection of records and primary constructors: various bugfixes and improvements. (Special thanks to @sonyps5201314 and @mmusu3)


• #3519: Add API diff feature. Please see the PR for how this feature works.


• #3494: Add dynamic ILSpy settings options to ILSpyCmd


• #3489: Make WholeProjectDecompiler.CreateDecompiler protected virtual to make the decompilation pipeline extensible.

Contributions

• Allow extracting multiple package entries (see #3508 by @CreateAndInject)


• Render operating system name as well as architecture if present (see #3653 by @MatthewSteeples)


• Improve decompilation of unmanaged function pointers (see #3620 by @ds5678)


• Improve decompilation of pre-increment operators (see #3472 by @ds5678)


• Support batch PDB generation (see #3619 by @sonyps5201314)


• TargetFramework and TargetServices APIs are now public (see #3501 by @nikitalita)


• Allow creating a MetadataFile with a MetadataReader / MetadataStringDecoder (see #3487 by @lordmilko)


• Add configuration option to check for overflow and underflow (see #3484 by @ds5678)


• Support disassembling single file bundle for ILSpy (see #3398 by @cshung)


• Refactor for cross platform port (see #3641by @lextm)


• Fix in erroneously being applied to this (see #3682 by @nikitalita)


• Update TransformCollectionAndObjectInitializers to check for init-only properties (see #3678 by @nikitalita)


• Fix PowerShell PostBuild failing when solution path contains spaces (see #3669 by @Myself-Bloons)


• Replace FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo with DecompilerVersionInfo.Version constant (see #3667 by @MattParkerDev)


• Support allows ref struct constraint (see #3537 by @jjonescz)


• Allow passing an IDecompilerTypeSystem rather than a DecompilerTypeSystem to CSharpDecompiler (see #3529 by @lordmilko)


• Add DecompilerSettings.ExpandParamsArguments (see #3534 by @MSchmoecker)


• Add DecompilerSettings.AlwaysMoveInitializer: Always move initializer from static constructor to field initializer (see #3540 by @miloush)


• Fix #3462: Scrolling with scroll wheel breaks after using file search (see #3538 by @tom-englert)


• Fixes for primary constructors (see #3614 by @mmusu3)


• Improve inlining of boxed values (see #3587 by @ds5678)


• List name first in ILSpy title for multiple instances (see #3589 by @miloush)


• Improve Framework Id detection (see #3581 by @ds5678)


• Enable detection of .NET version without TargetFrameworkAttribute (see #3580 by @ds5678)


• Do not create object initializers for tuples (see #3579 by @ds5678)


• Fix lower case type name conflicting with variable name (see #3572 by @ds5678)


• Fix regression in decompiling local functions with default parameters (see #3560 by @ds5678)


• Copy-propagate the stack slot for collection initializers (see #3554 by @ds5678)


• Normalize UTF-8 BOM Marks and ps1 Indention (see #3546 by @petercrabtree)


• Minor Dev Environment Fixes (.editorconfig cleanup, typo fix, .gitignore tweak) (see #3544 by @petercrabtree)


• Replace GeneratePdbForAssembly with GeneratePdbForAssemblies to improve user experience and remove redundant code. (see #3630 by @sonyps5201314)


• Fix the issue where PDBs generated by ILSpy do not match (see #3629 by @sonyps5201314)


• Do not use ObservableObject when ObservableObjectBase is sufficient. (see #3644 by @tom-englert)


• Add an option to not transform Activator.CreateInstance<T>() to new T() (see #3497 by @DoctorKrolic)


• Fix stack overflow exception in CSharpResolver (see #3471 by @ds5678)


• Handle explicit optional parameter after default parameter (see #3470 by @ds5678)


• Fix disassembler output, correcting flag(NUM) to flags(NUM) (see #3473 by @hez2010)


• Fix null reference exception when writing resource files (see #3474 by @ds5678)


• Fix SDK-style (modern) inter-project references (see #3502 by @petercrabtree)


• Fix incorrect method match for static methods with instance signature (see #3504 by @MSchmoecker)

API Clean-up

• Removed legacy UnresolvedUsingScope


• Renamed ResolvedUsingScope to UsingScope


• Removed legacy ToTypeReference


• Removed ITypeReference and implementations

Performance

• #3486: Remove XML serialization from DecompilerSettings in ILSpy

Bug fixes

• Fix #3655: ExtractPackageEntryContextMenuEntry


• Fix #3684: Hide compiler-generated base-class forwarding accessor methods


• Fix #3674: Incorrect derived types shown, when generic type inherit from non-generic type with the same name.


• Fix #3671: TransformCollectionAndObjectInitializers mistakenly included trailing variable initialization.


• Fix #3524: Property without backing field cannot have an initializer.


• Fix #3512: Local function name collides with local variable name


• Fix #2165: DeclareVariables step must update ResolveResult annotation when using out var.


• Fix #3518 by replacing FixLoneIsInst with an inlining restriction.


• Fix #3465: Operator '>' cannot be applied to operands of type 'X' and 'X'


• Fix #3468: Try harder to avoid ref locals if UseRefLocalsForAccurateOrderOfEvaluation is not enabled.


• Fix #3323: Simplify cleanup in AwaitInFinallyTransform, ensuring that we do not miss any containers.


• Fix #1873: Clear ILRange in CopyPropagation


• Fix #1789: missing hyperlink for MethodGroupResolveResult.


• Fix #3476: Scroll position not restored when navigating back


• Fix #3545: Covariant return not detected for abstract override property


• Fix #3549: Do not crash on encountering nil tokens.


• Fix #3543: Missing parentheses around field assignment expression in list initializers


• DebugDirectoryTreeNode: AddressOfRawData and PointerToRawData columns should use hex display.


• DebugDirectoryTreeNode: PointerToRawData was always showing 0 and AddressOfRawData was showing the wrong value.


• Fix #3577: Properly infer the switch governing type and preserve conversions


• Fix #3626: Do not emit named arguments for bool constants, if it causes the call to become ambiguous.


• Fix #3612: WholeProjectDecompiler.CleanUpName does not count bytes on Unix.


• Fix #3464: Missing cast in interpolated string


• Fix #3482: Drag and Drop is no longer working in the Assemblies tree view.


• Fix #3492: Do not crash, if field used by RuntimeHelpers.InitializeArray is malformed.

And many other fixes, for a full list click here.