What are the breaking changes in 9.0.0?

[ClubAssist-PatrickBoyer]

What are the breaking changes mentioned in the release notes for 9.0.0?

I acknowledge that compile-time we will know pretty quickly. Through reflection, we could experience crashes at runtime. Having a better understanding of the breaking changes will give us confidence of upgrading the library to the latest version.

I searched for "9" and "Breaking Changes" across the existing discussions already and didn't find anything. Any information would be great appreciated.

Thanks!
Patrick

[bijington]

@ClubAssist-PatrickBoyer I've been meaning to update the release notes so thanks for the reminder. I have added some details here: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/releases/tag/9.0.0. The breaking changes are unlikely to impact many developers but they do change some public APIs so they are technically breaking.

I understand that using reflection at runtime could introduce issues and I truly hope that developers are not using reflection in their use with the toolkit. Are you and if so why? Is there something that we haven't exposed?

[brminnick]

Thanks Shaun!

And for future reference, you can use this quick search for the breaking change label to see if any of the PRs with breaking changes impact the features you're using:

https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pulls?q=label%3A%22breaking+change%22+

[ClubAssist-PatrickBoyer]

To close the loop on this discussion, I confirm that we do not use reflection with the Community Toolkit but we have been burned in the past by linker issues traced back to reflection. So, I was pointing it out of an abundance of caution and in the spirit of thoroughness.

I appreciate Brandon also mentioning the breaking change tag.

Regards,
Patrick