No release notes for Xamarin.iOS 15.0.0.6

[SaravananWipro]

Steps to Reproduce

We usually get Xamarin.iOS release notes from below URL every time, but no release notes details for Xamarin.iOS 15.0.0.6. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/release-notes/

Expected Behavior

Release notes with API changes for Xamarion.iOS 15.0.0.6

Actual Behavior

No release notes for Xamarin.iOS 15.0.0.6

[chamons]

You are correct, we dropped the ball here. Apologies.

Taking a look at getting these out of the door.

[tranb3r]

New release: 15.0.0.17

[SaravananWipro]

We are using Xamarin.iOS 15.0.0.6. Can we use the same version for Xcode 13?. What is the different between 15.0.0.6 and 15.0.0.17? Please list if any major bug fixes on 15.0.0.17.

[greg84]

I have 15.0.0.8 installed.

VS for Mac keeps prompting me to downgrade to 15.0.0.6

What's going on? It's the second time I've experienced this.

[angelru]

I cannot install applications on a physical iPhone with iOS 15.1

[tranb3r]

New release 15.3.0.41

[angelru]

New release 15.3.0.41

in visual studio windows I don't get the update

[tranb3r]

New release 15.3.0.41

in visual studio windows I don't get the update

Visual Studio 2022 17.1.0 preview 1

[chamons]

@angelru - Please file an issue at https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/new with a build log.

@greg84 - Occasionally Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac will drift out of sync and require different iOS version. We try to resolve this as quickly as possible. It is safe to just keep the latest version when possible. Sorry for the trouble.

Everyone else - We are behind on release notes. Apologies for the trouble.

[angelru]

@chamons https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/13237

[chamons]

Thanks - As I just noted there, there is insufficient information for us to look at it. As requested in the template, please attach full build and/or deployment logs. Without those, there is very little we can do to look into any issue.

[OliverMDr]

@chamons Any news on the release notes?

[giuseppenovielli]

@chamons any news?

[lassana]

Has the changelog been moved to some another place or is there a particular reason for not publishing it?

[fireflypulse]

I would also like to know where to find the latest patch notes/changelog. Seems like all of version 15 is undocumented. The Android side of things looks updated to me, what happened?

[jkasten2]

I did a bit of digging, it seems IOS_PACKAGE_VERSION in Make.versions will change in this repo when a new version is cut.

• https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/blame/main/Make.versions#L51
• Git blaming back on main seems to be missing a number of versions however, like Xamarin.iOS 15.6.X.

If you click on the on commit text itself on the left you will be taken to the commit where it was bump and there seem to be some generated reports.

• Example 15.5.0 -> 15.7.0 - https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/commit/5b09d6320a2847b476c27fbf513aff32875bc7f5

One of them does include an API diff which is does provide some details to the release, it seems only the gist links are accessible.

• Xamarin.iOS SDK API diff: 15.5.0 vs 15.7.0
• Xamarin.iOS SDK API diff: 15.2.0 vs 15.5.0
• Xamarin.iOS SDK API diff: 14.16.0 vs 15.3.0
• Xamarin.iOS SDK API diff: 14.16.0 vs 15.1.0

[ghost]

Still no release notes.... xamarin.ios-15.8.0.2

[greg84]

I need to know xcode compatibility for each version of Xamarin.iOS before I update to it.

I can't see a way to find this out because there are still no release notes for the last 10 updates.

Currently I have to update Xamarin iOS, then realise I need to update xcode because my build fails.

I would prefer to check the xcode version requirement first and update xcode before I update so that there is no period of time when things don't work.

This page says the last version of Xamarin.iOS is 14.19, this is nearly a year out of date: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/release-notes/

@chamons can you give us an update on what's going on please? Would it be easier to archive the documentation on the docs site and just create Github releases instead?

[dalexsoto]

Hello, this isn’t @chamons fault but mine, I been busy doing something else, I have a draft of the notes but have not managed to get back to it.

that said Xamarin iOS Xcode compat is as follows

Xamarin iOS 8.8.x is Xcode 13.3 Xamarin iOS 8.4-6.x is Xcode 13.2 Xamarin iOS 8.2.x is Xcode 13.1 Xamarin iOS 8.0.x is Xcode 13.0

bah, I hit the button too fast, sorry about the notes I’ll try to post the whole bunch by the end of the week.

[AntRemo]

Hi @dalexsoto

Any update?

Starting in 3 days (April 25), the AppStore is requiring all apps be built with Xcode 13 or later.

I have been holding off, but now we are out of time.

Also, any recommendation which version to upgrade to? Which one is more stable?

Many thanks 🙏

[mnidhk]

I need to update too with Xcode 13. Please give us release notes and a list which Xamarin.ios file needed voor Xcode 13

[joshardt]

Xcode 13 is working since a while. Should be safe to update to Xcode 13.3.1.

[ivanlabsii]

As iOS 16 is coming out the lack of notes further complicates to figure out what is being (or haven't been) released.

[beeradmoore]

15.10.0.5 (d17-2) got some partial release notes in the release here.

There is a 15.12.0.2 (d17-3) build out but not release notes, or even release on the page. From the link of the change log of the previous release you can adjust versions numbers to see what was changed between 15.10.0.5 and 15.12.0.2 here. But it's 500 commits starting in April, I guess earlier commits on different branches that never made it to 15.10.0.5.

~~As for the next version there is an xcode14 branch which appears to be actively worked on. Not sure if that becomes d17-4 or what.~~

~~@dalexsoto any idea what happened to the 15.2.0.2 release and when we can expect Xamarin.iOS to support Xcode 14/iOS 16? (Not like a release date ETA, but is this days, weeks, months)~~

EDIT: For Xcode 14 info see #15954 [Meta] Xcode 14.0 Support