Version 6.0.0 release

[rockfordlhotka]

CSLA 6 is a major new version of CSLA .NET, fully supporting (and requiring) dependency injection and other features of modern .NET.

Version 6.0.0 includes numerous breaking changes, including:

• Business domain types must have a public constructor
• Public constructors for many types will have parameters provided via depedency injection
• Support for .NET 4.0 and 4.5 has been dropped; .NET 4.6.2 is the minimum required
• The data and object context managers in Csla.Data have been removed in favor of using dependency injection

This version supports:

• .NET 6
• .NET Framework 4.6.2 to 4.8
• netstandard 2.0 and 2.1
• Blazor
• Xamarin
• mono

Operating Systems and Platforms:

• Windows (servers and UWP, WPF, Windows Forms)
• Linux (servers and Xamarin)
• iOS and Android (Xamarin)
• Mac (servers and Xamarin)
• Kubernetes and other container-based runtimes
• ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET 5
• Other client and server environments where .NET Core or mono are available

Change List

• Changes in this release
• Breaking changes.

Upgrade documentation

There is a document describing common issues people will likely encounter when upgrading from CSLA 5 to CSLA 6.

• Upgrading to CSLA 6

Contributors

The CSLA community is fantastic! The people who've submitted bugs, helped think through solutions, lobbied for features and enhancements, and submitted pull requests are listed below.

@455986780
@adrianwright109
@ajohnstone-ks
@Art666OTS
@BaHXeLiSiHg
@coder-rr
@danielmartind
@dazinator
@devcs21
@dotMorten
@Eduardo-Micromust
@GreatBarrier86
@j055
@JacoJordaan
@JasonBock
@jhnsartain3
@jonparker
@joshhanson314
@kellyethridge
@michaelcsikos
@MTantos1
@peranborkett
@poepoe12002
@ProDInfo
@RaviPatelTheOne
@rfcdejong
@rockfordlhotka
@russblair
@SachinPNikam
@swegele
@TheCakeMonster

Thank you all so much for your support!

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This discussion was created from the release Version 6.0.0 release.