We've pushed Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5.256-pre6 to NuGet and have begun QA in preparation for making this our next stable release.

To install the pre-release, check the pre-release option in your NuGet manager and install this version.

For some quick highlights, check out our blog announcement. Hint: Fast Renders for Android, ListView performance enhancements and fixes, and MacOS preview.

If you’ve got a bug to report, drop us a quick report here so we can troubleshoot in detail.

As you have performance specific feedback, please join the discussion in this performance specific thread.

Important notes

• Xamarin.Forms is now compatible with .NET Standard projects! Not all build features may work.
• Behavior change: Device.RuntimePlatform now returns WinRT on WinRT and UWP on UWP.
• Behavior change: Using the new AutomationProperties may impact UI Test execution on Android. AutomationId, Name, and HelpText will all set the native ContentDescription property, with Name and/or HelpText taking precedence over AutomationId (Name and HelpText will be concatenated). This means that any tests looking for AutomationId will now fail if Name and/or HelpText are also set on that element. To work around this issue, please alter your UI Tests to look for the value of Name/HelpText in this scenario.
• Behavior change: Calling Focus on a Picker on WinRT/UWP will now open the drop down.
• Deprecation: Android IVisualElementRenderer.ViewGroup is now obsolete. Please use View instead.

2.3.5.256-pre6

• 56795 - "DataTriggers do not work on UWP in RELEASE mode"

2.3.5.255-pre5

• [Android] Dispose check before setting properties on Button (PR)
• 36031 - "Button border not drawn on Android without a BorderRadius" (PR)
• 57717 - "Setting background color on Button in Android FormsApplicationActivity causes NRE" (PR)
• 57749 - "[UWP] After enabling a disabled button it is not clickable" (PR)
• [Android] Dispose check on FastButtonRenderer to prevent crash (PR)
• [Android] Set the Id field for Android Views created by Forms (PR)
• 55588 - "Cannot open more than one ContextAction in different ListViews on IOS" (PR)
• 56444 - "A small "dot" shows up as value in Android labels when the value is null/empty." (PR)
• 56895 - "VS2017 stable - previewer exception crash- no method found Button_click on type" (PR)
• 56896 - "ListViews for lists with many elements regressed in performance on iOS" (PR)
• 57108 - "Fix possible crash on API 21+ at launch when using Holo theme and FormsApplicationActivity" (PR)

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