6.0.0-beta5

Features

• Remove dependency of @Inject on Activate
• Restrict Anchor and Form TagHelpers to apply only to form and anchor elements with server side attributes (#2581)
• Remove XML input formatter behavior for RequiredAttribute (#2528)
• Simplify writing JSON in a Razor view (#2514)
• Add a Controller.Json(object, JsonSerializerSettings) overload (#2506)
• Rename _GlobalImport.cshtml to _ViewImports.cshtml (#2489)
• Should we standardize on the use MediaTypeHeaderValue in ActionResults? (#2411)
• Need a way to specify ContentType in ViewResult \ PartialViewResult (#2408)
• Fully Expand Models in ApiExplorer (#2378)
• Automatically chose type="file" when generating <input/> elements for IFormFile expressions (#2337)
• Can InputFormatterContext be replaced by ModelBindingContext (#2330)
• Consider decoupling Client Validation from IModelValidator and the rest of model binding (#2304)
• Remove dependency on Microsoft.AspNet.DataProtection in Mvc.Core (#2287)
• Remove dependency on Hosting (#2286)
• [JsonPatch]: Replace exceptions with ModelState errors (#2270)
• Simplify MvcOptions (#2269)
• Remove facades for accessing Options and pass options to the invoker (#2266)
• Make output formatters available to ResourceExecutingContext (#2264)
• Add default editor templates for all numeric types, including short, ushort, and double, etc. (#2261)
• Create an ImageTagHelper that supports globbed src paths and cache-busting file version URL hash (#2249)
• Consider adding a UseMvcWithDefaultRoute extension on BuilderExtensions that adds default routes to the route collection (#1885)
• logging: Tag Helpers: MVC Tag Helpers should log warnings (#1686)
• Provide a property on Form tag helper which accepts route name (#1489)
• Attribute Routing: Resolve Name + Token Replacement (#819)
• Support app-wide defaults for more MVC settings, especially for HTML helpers (#448)
• Improve Mock support for Viewcontexts (#268)

Bugs Fixed

• Fix registration of MVC services (#2648)
• Whitespace at the start of attribute value with dynamic content is ignored (#2547)
• RedirectToRouteResult doesn't use RouteName property when calculating destination URL (#2545)
• Use custom stream writer for Xml output formatters (#2541)
• AuthorizeFilter sets null Identity (#2534)
• MVC is broken on CoreCLR (#2507)
• TagHelperOutputExtensions.RemoveRange() does not handle its attributes parameter safely (#2491)
• For successfully bound models there should be no entry with empty key in the model state dictionary. (#2466)
• Models not bound from request (like services) should not show up in Modelstate. (#2464)
• Model state has spurious entries when binding to a collection where element type has no validators. (#2446)
• Remove DefaultValue support from model binding and do it only in the invoker for action parameters (#2414)
• Add back the implicit [Required] for value types (#2407)
• Value type controller properties with [From*] fail with NullRef exception when no value is available (#2357)
• Support generating <input/> elements without a value attribute (#2336)
• ModelBinderAttribute should not throw from BinderType property setter (#2326)
• Give accurate location of syntax error in _GlobalImport.cshtml (#2321)
• [Perf] Change MutableObjectModelBinder.CanBindType to use ModelMetadata.IsComplex (#2307)
• Invalid dynamic collection binding and validation (#2294)
• Storing objects (non-string things) in TempDataDictionary does not round trip correctly (#2276)
• MutableObjectModelBinder should avoid using PropertyInfo.SetValue to set property values (#2259)
• Unrendered sections does not throw when redefined and rendered in nested layout. (#2252)
• Attribute routing throws ambiguous exception for base controller (#2248)
• Validation error is not thrown when a complex type property with required and from body attributes has null value (#2219)
• RenderBody must be called from a Layout Page" provides no file information (#1919)
• MutableObjectModelBinder.GetPropertyValidationInfo should not reflect over ModelType.Properties (#1712)
• Better error when TagHelperOutputExtensions.CopyHtmlAttribute() called with unknown attributeName (#1586)
• Action argument of IList will be bound as Null instead of an empty List (#1579)
• DefaultControllerFactory should throw if the controller is a value type (#662)