[Current] 6.1 Release Plan

[michael-hawker]

6.1 Release Plan

Incremental release focused on some new features along with bug-fixes and improvements.

Feature Freeze: 5/14/2020 Code Freeze: 5/21/2020 5/29/2020 Ship Date: 5/28/2020 6/4/2020

6.1-Preview1.2 on NuGet!

Work board Links

Note: there are an abundance of items currently earmarked for this release, the goal on our stream Thursday, April 2nd is to prune and clean-up this release for something achievable in the next 4-6 weeks.

• 6.1 Milestone Items.
• 6.1 Feature Tracking Board
• 6.1 Bug Tracking Board

The plan

  Below is a summary of the top level plan items currently committed or completed. For a complete list of open bugs for this release, please see the tracking boards above instead.   Legend of annotations:

Symbol	Description
✋	needs assistance
:zero:	priority 0 - must have for this release
:one:	priority 1 - nice to have for this release
:two:	priority 2 - stretch goal - unlikely for this release but we will try our best
:grey_exclamation:	missing issue reference
:flashlight:	investigating

New Controls/Features

• [x] :zero: Ship TokenizingTextBox control #195, #3027 (slipped from 6.0 due to #3057)
• [x] :zero: Toast Notification Helpers .NET Core 3 Support #3212
• [x] :one: New ItemsRepeater Layouts #3114 #3107 (In PR: #3160)
• [ ] :one: 🔦 ❕ Graph Control Improvements for updated Preview
• [x] 1️⃣ .NET HighPerformance APIs (PR #3128 by @Sergio0694)
• [x] 1️⃣ Observable Grouping API (PR #3201 by @vgromfeld)
• [x] 1️⃣ XAML Pipeline Brushes #3108 (PR #3112 by @Sergio0694)
• [x] :one: Add Command to ListViewExtensions #3078 (In PR #3209 by @deanchalk)
• [ ] ✋ :two: AdvancedCollectionView Improvements #1128 ✋
• [ ] ✋ 2️⃣ RotatorTile OnCurrentItemChanging Event #2994 ✋
• [ ] ✋ :two: Gaze Input Cursor Color #3210 :hand:
• [ ] 2️⃣ 🔦 Create XAML based DropShadow API helper #3122
• [x] .NET Guard APIs (PR #3131 by @Sergio0694)
• [x] UIElement.ClipToBounds #3108 (PR #3111 & #3193 by @Sergio0694 and @vgromfeld)
• [x] BaseObjectStorageHelper customizable serialization #3175 (PR #3181 by @simop-msft)

Bug Fixes/Improvements

• [x] :zero: Update XAML Behaviors package dependency See #3008
• [x] Fixed InfiniteCanvas Italics #3118 (PR #3117 by @BurkusCat)
• [x] Improve DataGrid Horizontal Scrolling #3170 (PR #3174 by @skendrot)
• [x] Add missing ICommand.CanExecute to HyperlinkExtensions #3171 (PR #3172 by @vgromfeld)
• [x] RadialGauge default template value formatting (PR #3153 by @jeromelaban)
• [x] FileCache NullReferenceException #3104 (PR #3105 by @SoundersFan)
• [x] Add missing TemplateParts to InfiniteCanvas (PR #3188 by @michael-hawker)
• [x] MarkdownTextBlock hyperlinks don't work after unload (PR #3180 by @JasonStein)
• [x] Fixed InfiniteCanvas button theming issue #3185 (PR #3194 by @deanchalk)

Deprecation

• [x] 0️⃣ TabView (see WinUI Parity work here)
• [x] 0️⃣ RadialGradientBrush (see work on RadialGradientBrush done in WinUI here) - TODO: Finalize with WinUI planning
• [x] Singleton Pattern Helper #3134
• [x] Facebook Service (underlying library is no longer supported)
• [ ] 🔦 AdaptiveGridView (can do a lot of this with ItemsRepeater, so need to write samples, are we sufficient in covering this?) (maybe we do this in 7.0?)

Stabilization

• [ ] ✋ :one: 🔦 Add Mocking for Unit Tests #3196 ✋
• [x] :zero: Unit Tests Pass #2133 & Run as part of CI (#3165, #3207 by @azchohfi & @michael-hawker)
• [x] Clean-up IDE0059 Warnings (PR #3155 by @vgromfeld)
• [x] Replace Task.FromResult by Task.CompletedTask (PR #3162 by @vgromfeld)
• [x] Fix VS 2019 builds #3012 (PR #3084 by @michael-hawker)
• [x] StyleCop Update #3187 (PR #3189 by @azchohfi)
• [x] Sample app crash from InAppNotification (PR #2959 by @jp-weber)

[Sergio0694]

Leaving some more info/feedback here as requested on Twitter 😄

With respect to my own PRs:

• If possible, it'd be nice to have these new Guard APIs be included in 6.1 as well. It's just a couple of APIs I missed in the initial PR, plus the .NET Standard 2.1 target with some attributes. All tests passing, the PR is ready for review and up do date with master.
• Once the HighPerformance package is merged, I plan to make those two additional PRs I mentioned. One is just with a couple new APIs (those lookup indexers I mentioned a while back), the other adding multi-targeting to .NET Core 2.1/3.1 and UWP, and some refactoring. It'd be nice to have both merged in for 6.1, especially because the one with multi-targeting will help avoid issues for users using the package on runtimes like Mono.
• The FontIcon extensions should be ready for review and good to go now, only missing the documentation, which I'm going to write right now and submit a PR for.

Hope this helps, looking forward to the stream! 😊🚀

EDIT: side note, should we use 6.1 to also mark the RadialGradientBrush as Obsolete since it's now available out of the box in WinUI 2.4? Just to point new users towards that one instead 🤔

EDIT 2: opened a docs PR for the FontIconExtension(s), ready for review now 👍

[azchohfi]

3205/#3206 is for 7.0.0. It definitely is a breaking change.