v6.0.0: Next Level Speech Recognition & Bugfixes

Watch out! This version contains some breaking changes! That is why we are going from version 5.3.0 to version 6.0.0. They grow up so fast... 🥲 Anyway, no time to be emotional, let's talk about the amazing things in this release. First of all: look at all the first-time contributors, amazing, thank you all so much: @wolfgang-ironsoftware, @inforithmics, @olekssokol, @vhugogarcia, @redek91, @babenkovitaliy and @AllenD-MSFT 👏

Speech Recognition

The speech recognition APIs just got better. You can now listen to the user in the background and still process the results asynchronously. This enables so many cool new scenarios in your app, including building your own personal assistant! Connect that with some AI and... 🤯

You can read all about how to use this new functionality in the docs right here.

Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes

Furthermore this release is PACKED with bugfixes. The popups got better, we fixed memory leaks all over and even the snackbar and toast now know how to handle a device that is rotating. Good stuff, check out all the details just below here.

All the details

• Use Native Windows Popup, Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.Popup by @VladislavAntonyuk in #1086
• Fix popup margin on iOS by @cat0363 in #1329
• Use fully qualified namespace for Color reference in TextToColorGenerator by @wolfgang-ironsoftware in #1332
• Code cleanup and preparation for the next release (breaking changes) by @VladislavAntonyuk in #1324
• Fix Gestures on Popup on ios by @inforithmics in #1342
• 632 bug avatar view clipping on windows by @GeorgeLeithead in #1344
• fix IconTintColorBehavior for Windows by @olekssokol in #1370
• Add MemoryAnalyzer roslyn analyzer by @brminnick in #1371
• iOS popup fix with Shell or TabbedPage by @cucumber-sp in #1343
• Fix Windows Popup Position and Size by @cat0363 in #1350
• Updated the validation to allow the image button to apply the tint co… by @vhugogarcia in #1386
• Fixed Path behavior of FileSaver and FolderPicker on Android + Permission check on Android 13 by @redek91 in #1341
• Reverted change add in #1343 by @pictos in #1394
• Sample icon tint color behavior inside a popup by @vhugogarcia in #1395
• Add redrawing of Snackbar and Toast when the screen is rotated by @cat0363 in #1405
• [MacCatalyst] Get correct window associated with the Popup by @babenkovitaliy in #1409
• Improved memory performance of TextColorToGenerator by @AllenD-MSFT in #1254
• Fix Memory leak on Popup by @pictos in #1398
• Speech Recognition v2 - StartListening/StopListening by @VladislavAntonyuk in #1382
• Fix for the navigation to the SelectAllText page on macOS by @vhugogarcia in #1402

Housekeeping, important but not super interesting

• Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 in /samples by @dependabot in #1413
• Bump xunit from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 in /samples by @dependabot in #1412
• Bump Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Polly from 7.0.10 to 7.0.11 in /samples by @dependabot in #1403
• [housekeeping] Automated PR to fix formatting errors by @github-actions in #1393
• Update Xcode version for Sample app by @jfversluis in #1390
• [housekeeping] Automated PR to fix formatting errors by @github-actions in #1373
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.7.1 to 17.7.2 in /samples by @dependabot in #1378
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis from 4.6.0 to 4.7.0 in /samples by @dependabot in #1355
• Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces from 4.6.0 to 4.7.0 in /samples by @dependabot in #1357
• Bump FluentAssertions from 6.11.0 to 6.12.0 in /samples by @dependabot in #1365
• global.json: Change "rollForward": "latestMajor", -> "rollForward": "latestFeature". by @brminnick in #1338
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.7.0 to 17.7.1 in /samples by @dependabot in #1348
• Bump NuGet.Protocol from 6.6.1 to 6.7.0 in /samples by @dependabot in #1330
• ♻️ [Housekeeping] Fixed GravatarImageSourceTests.TestDefaultStream by @pictos in #1335
• [housekeeping] Automated PR to fix formatting errors by @github-actions in #1327

New Contributors

• @wolfgang-ironsoftware made their first contribution in #1332
• @inforithmics made their first contribution in #1342
• @olekssokol made their first contribution in #1370
• @vhugogarcia made their first contribution in #1388
• @redek91 made their first contribution in #1341
• @babenkovitaliy made their first contribution in #1409
• @AllenD-MSFT made their first contribution in #1254

Full Changelog: 5.3.0...6.0.0