This is a servicing release to the previous .NET 8 release.

Note: these are the base SDKs that add support for the platforms in question, for MAUI (which is built on top of our SDKs), go here instead: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/.

Versions

This release consists of the following versions:

• iOS: 17.2.8078
• tvOS: 17.2.8078
• macOS: 14.2.8078
• Mac Catalyst: 17.2.8078

Full release notes: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/wiki/.NET-8-release-notes

What's Changed

• [Blocks] Remove a block callback validation that's apparently too eager. by @vs-mobiletools-engineering-service2 in #20700
• [dotnet] Automatically link with the Security framework. Fixes #20406. by @vs-mobiletools-engineering-service2 in #20417
• [dotnet] Fix detecting if the interpreter is enabled. by @rolfbjarne in #20732
• [GameController] GCMouse doesn't conform to NSCoding/NSSecureCoding. by @vs-mobiletools-engineering-service2 in #20667
• [runtime] Fix memory leak with BlockLiteral descriptors. Fixes #20503. by @rolfbjarne in #20562
• Enable dedup optimization in FullAOT mode only by @vs-mobiletools-engineering-service2 in #20701

Full Changelog: dotnet-8.0.1xx-xcode15.1-8053...dotnet-8.0.1xx-8078