6.0.0-beta4

Bugs Fixed

• Adding @using in _GlobalImports shows squigglies in VS (#2271)
• Selection regressions compared to MVC 5 (#2240)
• Tooling: Directives are not inheriteted via _GlobalImport.cshtml (#2213)
• ModelStateDictionary contains garbage entries for DateTimeOffset[] (#2192)
• RazorPage.User should be ClaimsPrincipal (#2167)
• Collections are not correctly model-bound (#2129)
• Ensure JavaScript in LinkTagHelper is defensively using DOM APIs (#2088)
• TryValidateModel and TryUpdateModel don't revalidate the model if model is already validated after model binding (#2071)
• Script & Link tag helpers should do explicit ordering of globbed path results (#2062)
• Implement CanReadType in InputFormatter (#1974)
• Change LinkTagHelper to activate ILogger<> directly (#1948)
• FromHeaderAttribute with Name doesn't work on class properties (#1929)
• Remove AddMvc overload with default parameter (#1915)
• ModelStateDictionary.CanAddErrors and MaxAllowedErrors do not match their descriptions (#1891)
• A POCO parameter with an exact name match in a value provider fails to model bind (#1865)
• ObjectResult with status code and null value does not produce the status code (#1809)
• Case sensitive filesystems and Razor view searches (#1736)
• ModelState Errors for FormatException are not converted into user friendly (invalid) messages. (#1728)
• InputTagHelper renders a closing tag for type="submit" and type="button" (#1571)
• List of assembly names in DefaultAssemblyProvider needs to be kept up to date (#1529)
• SelectTagHelper does not handle multiple="" correctly (#1516)
• Select helpers unable to resolve slightly-complex expressions (#1468)
• [HiddenInput] and [UIHint] ignored when choosing @Html.Display() and @Html.Editor() templates (#963)
• AntiForgery: CookieName should be based off from application name/path (#584)
• [HTML helpers] Do not set Selected in user's SelectListItem instances (#524)

Features

• Transition MVC TagHelpers to use TargetElementAttributes attribute targeting. (#2195)
• Rename ConfigureMvcOptions to just ConfigureMvc (#2169)
• Tag Helper initializers (#2162)
• Script & Link tag helpers should support generating cache-busting file version hash in URL (#2141)
• Consider bringing back HttpUnauthorizedResult (#2111)
• Enable @tagHelperPrefix to be inherited by _GlobalImport.cshtml (#2110)
• Make Unobtrusive Ajax available on Bower (#2021)
• Remove IRazorFileProviderCache and rely on file expiration triggers to file change expiry (#1969)
• Url.RouteUrl can be simpler for common patterns. (#1966)
• Log the current view path in LinkTagHelper log messages (#1949)
• Expose path of currently executing view (#1940)
• Consider changing Attribute Route behavior with areas + ambient values (#1913)
• Model binding to Controller Properties (#1902)
• TryUpdateModel: Determine model type at runtime (#1837)
• Use CRC32 instead of MD5 for hashing the file content. (#1800)
• Add extension methods to IEnumerable<OptionsDescriptor> (#1787)
• Add ModelMetadata.AdditionalValues property bag extensibility point (#1758)
• Proposal: Simple API for configuring Json and Xml Formatters to Preserve References (#1744)
• ViewDataDictionary does not get activated via Activate attribute in TagHelpers (#1732)
• Use the file system watcher to expire the files in razor file cache (#1708)
• ControllerActivator should be able to use controllers registered as services (#1707)
• TagHelper and RazorPreCompileModule don't work in the same project and reference projects (#1693)
• Consider ConfigureMvc/Routing extensions (#1669)
• Stream Formatter (#1653)
• LinkTagHelper support for file globbing patterns in href (#1581)
• Create a Tag Helper with support for fallback sources (#1580)
• ScriptTagHelper support for file globbing patterns in src (#1577)
• Tag Helpers: Create an 'environment' Tag Helper (#1553)
• Add a way to add data to ActionDescriptor.Properties from ApplicationModel (#1494)
• Consider factoring of ModelMetadata (#1477)
• Consider some cleanup on MvcOptions.ApplicationModelConventions (#1445)
• Allow customizing what constitutes a controller for POCO controllers (#1274)
• Provide a base type like InputFormatter for easy creation of input formatters (#1222)
• [implementation] Simplify how ModelMetadata gets defaults and is extended; eliminate CachedModelMetadata<TPrototypeCache> (#1034)
• Consider support for binding FormCollection as a parameter (#979)
• [Display(Order={i})] ignored when sorting validation summary messages and properties in @Html.Display() / @Html.Editor() object templates (#964)
• Consider redesigning CompilationResult so it does not throw when CompiledType is accessed (#955)
• Make HTML helper parameter names consistent (#944)
• Bring back HttpNotFound(string statusDescription) (#842)
• Model binding - parameter name aliasing (#563)
• CORS (#498)
• TempData (#455)
• Add Html.GetEnumSelectList() helpers (#438)
• Support RemoteAttribute, including its client-side validation (#439)
• Reconsider routing behavior where URL generation silently fails when route would point to invalid action (#302)

6.0.0-beta3

Features

• CacheTagHelper should flow EntryLink to inner content (#1867)
• [ControllerUnitTest] Make the controller class not to throw an exception for simple unit tests (#1771)
• Incremental compilation of razor in precompilation (#1725)
• Add support for @removeTagHelpers inheritance from _ViewStart files (#1657)
• Logging: Assembly Discovery (#1562)
• Tag Helpers: Create a 'cache' Tag Helper (#1552)
• DefaultControllerActivator.Activate needs to be virtual (#1526)
• Add ModelBinderAttribute (#1394)
• Add some WebAPI-like action results/helpers to Controller (#1378)
• Add HttpError or similar type to Core (#1377)
• Tag Helpers: add support for @ in a tag helper attribute value (#1253)
• Ability to stash extra metadata on the ActionDescriptor (#1095)
• Extract an interface for RouteConstraintAttribute (#998)
• Add a new filter stage for modifying input formatter collection. (#991)
• Revive BadRequest() (#888)
• API Explorer: Expose Parameter Binding info (#886)
• Enable FromBody, FromForm, FromQuery, FromHeader, FromServices and FromRouteData attributes for model properties . (#801)
• Consider allowing RouteDataActionConstraintAttribute on methods (#676)
• Action results pattern (#657)
• File upload (#582)
• Support output caching (#536)
• Augment binding action parameters: Introduce FromHeader and FromServices at action parameter level. (#38)

Bugs Fixed

• Adding semicolon after @Inject statement results in IIS crashing and failed codegen. (#1857)
• Possible FileUpload bug (#1840)
• ElementalValueProvider performs incorrect prefix check in ContainsPrefix (#1814)
• Properties marked with [FromHeader] attribute do not use default values when a header is not present (#1722)
• Tag Helpers: Change ValidationSummaryTagHelper's property to ValidationSummary type (enum not a string) (#1685)
• @Html.CheckBoxFor() falls back to values in ViewDataDictionary (#1483)
• ContentResult ignores ContentEncoding (#1428)
• Tag Helpers: Generation for ModelExpression is incorrect when indexing (#1345)
• RoslynCompilationService needs to consume compilation settings from host (#871)

6.0.0-beta2

Features

• Add [FromHeader] for model binding (#1671)
• Move authorization filters to be the first set of filters to run (#1652)
• Tag Helpers: Add "asp-" prefix to all custom attributes on Tag Helpers that target traditional HTML elements (#1618)
• Make Flush work without requiring curly braces (#1547)
• Tag Helpers: Change default tag helpers and extensions to utilize new case insensitive attributes on TagHelperOutput. (#1449)
• Tag Helpers: <option/> tag helper (#1423)
• ViewComponents should support fully qualified names (#1052)
• RazorPage compilation needs to be affected by changes to _ViewStart (#974)
• BindAttribute to provide a property filter predicate (#785)
• Remaining form helpers -- BeginRouteForm() (#437)
• Flags enum does not bind (#220)

Bugs Fixed

• FlushAsync does not work in RenderSection \ RenderSectionAsync (#1509)
• Correct and clean up ViewDataDictionary semantics (#1466)
• Should ViewComponents be limited to public top-level classes? (#1448)
• Content negotiation does a case-sensitive matching of media type's parameter values (#1429)
• CompositeValueProvider.GetKeysFromPrefixFromProvider returns null value instead of Task with null result (#1419)
• Consider changing JsonResult's behavior when you provide a formatter (#1370)
• ViewComponent View() fails on CoreCLR with IEnumerable<> passed in (#1354)
• TagBuilder attributes are case sensitive. HTML5 spec says attributes are now case insensitive. Change TagBuilder & infrastructure. (#1328)
• Dispose implementations should not be treated as action methods (#1294)
• Error when using RouteAttribute and HttpPost together on same action (#1194)

6.0.0-beta1

Features

• Tag Helpers: Modify TagHelper creation to activate ViewContext properties instead of inheriting from an interface. (#1258)
• Handle virtual paths in FilePathResult (#1201)
• Support customizing reflected model through attributes (#1192)
• Pre compile razor view - For fast startup (#1179)
• Rename ReflectedXxx to ControllerXxx (#1176)
• Tag Helpers: Enable TagHelpers in MvcRazorHost (#1165)
• Remove XmlSerializerOutputFormatter from the default output formatter collection (#1126)
• WebAPI compat package (#1124)
• Provide a sync version of @Html.Partial (#1107)
• Tag Helpers: Create a mechanism to create/activate TagHelpers. (#1104)
• Tag Helpers: Expose way to provide and use a writer on a RazorPage (#1102)
• Implement Browserlink Support (#1083)
• Allow a way to modify locations in which views are looked for without having to modify ViewEngine (#1039)
• It would be useful to have a IsPartial property exposed to IRazorPage (#1002)
• RazorViewEngineOptions shouldn't be a property of MvcOptions (#986)
• Support [Bind] attribute for compatibility with MVC5 (#982)
• No @Html.Editor() template for multiline text (#965)
• Razor view engine is hard to customize (#948)
• [DataType] and [DisplayFormat] ignored when choosing @Html.Display() and @Html.Editor() templates (#933)
• Setting Json Serializer Settings (#932)
• API Explorer: Link Generation (#885)
• Determine naming and documentation for ModelMetadata.ModelName \ prefix parameter in TryUpdateControllerAsync is appropriate (#865)
• Add attributes for [FromFormData] [FromQuery] [FromUrl] (#860)
• Bring back PartialViewResult (and related factory on Controller) (#824)
• Multiple [Http*] verbs should create multiple actions (#809)
• Controller should have Request and Response (and other) convenience properties (#803)
• Make UrlHelper methods virtual (#750)
• Consider renaming ReflectionActionDescriptor* to ControllerActionDescriptor* (#748)
• ViewComponents need to be activated with a pattern similar to controllers and views (#701)
• Tag Helpers: Build HtmlHelper equivalent tag helper defaults. (#687)
• Better DI For controllers - Property Injection (#604)
• Tag helpers (#581)
• Input XML Serialization & Binding (#511)
• Populate well-known properties in Controller if available (#466)
• Implement action results for returning files (#429)
• @ViewComponent.Invoke() should be able to invoke views (#285)

Bugs Fixed

• Update to JSON.NET 6.0.6 (#1473)
• Update the pdb writer availability check (#1440)
• Provide correct ViewDataDictionary<TModel>.ModelMetadata when Model is null (#1426)
• Rename OutputFormatter's WriteResponseContentHeaders to WriteResponseHeaders (#1221)
• Cannot pass a int parameter to the views from ViewComponent (#1214)
• During validation in DefaultBodyModelValidator if the modelAccessor of a model throws, it is not handled. (#1206)
• Dispose not being called on controller (#1202)
• EmptyResult should not set status code (or do anything for that matter) (#1156)
• Insert pragma checksum at top of generated Razor file to enable debugging. (#1152)
• Fix quality factor handling (NRE in MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValueComparer) (#1141)
• TypeConverterModelBinder cannot bind "byte" and "short" (#1123)
• [perf] DefaultActionSelector.HasValidAction allocate significant memory, which can be fixed. (#1114)
• Perf: Improve performance of writing attributes in Razor (#1082)
• Remove MvcRazorHostOptions once we finish #946 (#1003)
• ViewEngine shouldn't throw when it doesn't know about the extension (#984)
• protocol & host name ignored when creating action link (#926)
• Fix XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas in XmlReader to directly call the constructor (#758)
• @Html.Id() implementation does not usefully sanitize return value, breaking JavaScript / CSS selectors (#704)

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)

6.0.0-alpha3

Bugs Fixed

• Html.AntiForgeryToken helper throws exception on Mono (#847)
• Remove legacy / non-unobtrusive client side validation (#620)
• ReflectedActionDescriptorProvider does not ignore private types (#610)
• Return string from HtmlHelper properties - Id, Name, DisplayName and Value (#566)

Features

• IUrlHelper and IViewComponentHelper need to be activated like IHtmlHelper (#789)
• ViewEngine requires more context, specifically the actual controller that handled the request. (#787)
• Moving IViewEngine to MvcOptions (#770)
• Move setting up options to MvcOptionsSetup (#760)
• Attribute Routing: Design a scheme for token replacement in templates (#738)
• Attribute Routing: Implement ~/ for overriding a prefix (#732)
• Attribute Routing: Url Generation (#729)
• Log action selection data for route debugging (#718)
• Design and implement logging features that support begin/end tracing (#715)
• HtmlHelpers needs to use @Inject for activation (#700)
• Use ActivateAttribute to consume services & activate items in Views (#678)
• Decouple HtmlHelper.GetValidationAttributes from UnobtrusiveValidationAttributesGenerator.GetValidationAttributes (#659)
• Enable creating a ViewResult without requiring a view engine (#617)
• Attribute routing: URL matching (#515)
• [Razor Config]Web.config/ViewStart replacement - IUsingsProvider, Layout discovery (#479)
• Bring back Controller.TryUpdateModel (#415)
• Fill ModelMetadata gaps needed for HTML helpers (#323)

6.0.0-alpha2

Features

• Added ReflectedApplicationModel (#682)