6.0.0-alpha4

Features

• Add support for flush points in Razor pages (#1042)
• Support @Inject, @model, @using declaration in viewstart (#881)
• RazorView.IUrlHelper makes it difficult to inject Url helper in views (#816)
• Attribute Routing: Multiple routes per-action (#739)
• Attribute Routing: Implement Name (#734)
• Attribute Routing: Implement Order (#733)
• Attribute Routing: Add ability to specify route info to Http*Attributes (#730)
• Support extensibility for action invoker (#1007)
• Support configuring global filters (#349)
• Output XML Formatters (#887)
• Revive ByteArrayModelBinder (#728)
• Limit max number of errors in model binding (#490)
• Incoming content negotiation based on content-type (#107)
• Improve IHtmlHelper, HtmlHelper, et cetera public API; correct inconsistencies (#874)
• Support [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString="{format})] (#844)
• Add HideSurroundingHtml property to ModelMetadata (#843)
• [Perf] ViewDataDictionary is copied and resized many times (#878)
• [Perf] Attribute Routing: Optimize URL Generation (#741)
• [Perf] Improve the performance of Action Selection (#641)
• MVC should write content length by default (on IIS) (#972)
• RoslynCompilationService to flow generated code when compilation is successful (#895)
• ModelValidationProviders might need to be moved to MvcOptions (#879)
• Throw a better exception when the user didn't add the MVC services (#347)
• Move CreateSerializer out of the base class of XmlSerializer (#1075)

Bugs Fixed

• ViewComponents should render partial views (#960)
• RoslynCompilationService does not include path information when compiling cshtml files (#869)
• Razor throws CompilationFailedException on X64 version of KRE (#846)
• XML DataContract Formatter can fail to write when instance type != declaredType (#1081)
• XML DataContract Formatter fails to write when the return type is object (#1073)
• Action method with return type string returns in JSON format (#906)
• Content Negotiation need to return 400 Bad Request \ 415 unsupported media type (#458)
• Content negotiation should fallback to the first formatter that can write the type (#1033)
• RouteGroupConstraint should only be added once for non attribute routed actions (#1035)
• Use [Route(...)] on action methods to specify an attribute route that allows all verbs (#900)
• TemplateRenderer should use ThrowIfFaulted when waiting for faulted task (#782)