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What's New in 8.10 Preview

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview Releases

  • May 26, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 5 New release icon
  • May 18, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 4
  • May 11, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 3
  • May 4, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 2.2
  • April 22, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 2.1
  • April 14, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 2
  • March 2, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 1

Release Highlights

Known Issues

Refer to the Known Issues section.


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Release Notes

Release Notes Icon Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 5 (8.10.0.1772)

released May 26, 2021

General

  • We fixed a handful of reliability issues that were discovered in the previous preview release.

Xamarin

Release Notes Icon Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 4 (8.10.0.1759)

released May 18, 2021

General

  • We have fixed several reliability issues.

Web and Azure

  • We have fixed an issue where creating .NET Core projects was failing when .NET 6 Preview 4 was installed.

Release Notes Icon Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 3 (8.10.0.1720)

released May 11, 2021

General

Web and Azure

  • We updated .NET Core SDKs to 5.0.203 and 3.1.409 addressing CVE-2021-31204.

Xamarin

  • We have updated Xamarin.Forms templates.

Release Notes Icon Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 2.2 (8.10.0.1457)

released May 4, 2021

General

  • We fixed fixed several reliability and performance issues.
  • We improved overall memory consumption and performance when working with large solutions.

Project System

  • We fixed an issue where unsaved code changes were not saved when debugging was started (F5).

Shell and Tools

Source Code Editing

Test Tools

Release Notes Icon Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 2.1 (8.10.0.976)

released April 22, 2021

General

  • We fixed several reliability issues that surfaced when working with Xamarin.Forms projects.

Xamarin

  • We fixed an issue where XAML Hot Reload changes were not synchronized with the device.
  • We updated the Xamarin.iOS SDK to 14.17.2.4.

Release Notes Icon Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 2 (8.10.0.967)

released April 14, 2021

Debugger

  • We fixed an issue where the Call Stack tool window wouldn't show external code.

Project System

  • We updated MSBuild to 16.9.0.

Shell and Tools

Source Code Editing

Release Notes Icon Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 1 (8.10.0.407)

released March 2, 2021

General

  • We fixed several reliability issues.
  • We updated Mono to 6.12.0.122, addressing CVE-2021-24112.

Known Issues

The following is a list of all existing known issues in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10:

  • Under certain conditions, a "System.EntryPointNotFoundException" exception appears when deploying Xamarin.Forms projects to iOS device. We're currently working on a fix which will be released shortly.
  • After installing the latest .NET 5 SDK, developers of .NET Core 3.1 apps might see an error indicating "The ASP.NET Core developer certificate is in an invalid state.". Running dotnet dev-certs https --clean then dotnet dev-certs https --trust from the Terminal will fix the issue.
  • In rare cases, it's possible to be up to date with everything but the .NET Core 3.1.300 SDK. If you enter into this configuration and update to .NET Core 3.1.300 using the updater, the notification to update the .NET Core SDK will not disappear until the IDE is restarted.
  • On Big Sur gRPC projects may fail to build with an error protoc" exited with code 255. This is a problem with macOS platform detection in the gRPC.Tools NuGet package that is used by default in the project templates. A workaround is to update the gRPC.Tools NuGet package to version 2.34.0 or later.
  • In some cases, Android projects may fail to build with an error The Java SDK could not be found, please set the path to it in the Xamarin.Android SDKs settings panel. A workaround is to execute the following command in a Terminal: mkdir -p ~/Library/Android/sdk.

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