Release Notes: October 12, 2023

Hello, 2.5.3!

Today, we're shipping three new releases:

• xUnit.net Core Framework v2 2.5.2 (release notes)
• xUnit.net Analyzers 1.4.0 (release notes)
• xUnit.net Visual Studio adapter 2.5.3

It's been 1 month since the release of 2.5.1 RTM.

As always, we'd like to thank all the users who contributed to the success of xUnit.net through usage, feedback, and code contributions. 🎉

(In case you're wondering where 2.5.2 went...we discovered a bug while doing verification on the final builds, so we didn't ship 2.5.2. Instead, we fixed the bug and verified the fix, and then created the 2.5.3 release.)

Release Notes

These release notes are a comprehensive list of changes from 2.5.1 to 2.5.3.

Features and Fixes

• The following types were moved here from xunit.runner.utility:
  • VisualStudioSourceInformationProvider
  • DiaNavigationData
  • DiaSession
  • DiaSessionWrapper
  • DiaSessionWrapperHelper
  The runner now creates these types directly and passes them to XunitFrontController.
• BUG: The built-in reporters (including auto-reporters to support TeamCity, AppVeyor, and VSTS/Azure Pipelines) were broken in 2.5.1 with the assembly merge. xunit/visualstudio.xunit#384
• BUG: The assembly merge that was part of the fix for xunit/visualstudio.xunit#383 caused problems with third party runner reporters, and has been rolled back. The original issue in #383 was determined to be unfixable on our end, and the suggested fix for developers who have version conflicts with xunit.runner.utility is to perform the IL merge that we were performing, except against their code rather than ours. xunit/visualstudio.xunit#385

• BUG: We fixed an issue with dotnet test on non-Windows platforms with .NET Framework, when AppDomains are enabled. This manifested with the following error:

  Catastrophic failure: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type of field 'Xunit.Runner.VisualStudio.VsExecutionSink:recorder' (3) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.ObjectModel, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.

  The fix was to add a dependency to Microsoft.TestPlatform.ObjectModel for .NET Framework projects. If you had previously done this by hand to work around this issue, you can now remove your added dependency. microsoft/vstest#2469

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