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Release 0.27.0 change tracker #8151
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Release 0.27.0 change tracker
This issue is the intake queue for user-observable changes that may ship in dotnet-inspect 0.27.0. It is not the release manifest: the exact shipped commit determines release membership.
Before an implementing pull request or stack merges, add a short comment describing its user-observable change and link the implementation for details.
When implementation suggests that a release-managed central file is stale, add a concise reconciliation suggestion with the implementing pull request or stack link. Central-file suggestions are maintenance input, not release-note candidates.
When preparing 0.27.0, the release agent will:
- Create the tracker for the next release and update agent guidance to point to its actual issue number.
- Reconcile every release-managed central file from suggestions on both trackers whose implementing changes are ancestors of the proposed release commit.
- Write the 0.27.0 release notes from candidate comments and linked implementations on both trackers. Include changes by their relationship to the selected release SHA, never by tracker placement.
- Recheck both trackers immediately before dispatch. If a late comment identifies an earlier qualifying implementation, correct the notes or central file as applicable and select a replacement release commit.
- After every coordinated publication surface succeeds, comment on the successor tracker with the 0.27.0 release URL and exact shipped SHA. Changes at or before that commit shipped in 0.27.0; later changes remain candidates for the next release.
- Before closing this tracker, copy or link every still-eligible entry whose implementation is not an ancestor of the shipped SHA to the successor. Preserve the original entry.
- Resolve exact Calls Count overloads from metadata #9841 — Demand-shaped exact-member
Calls --countresolves same-name overload groups from metadata before sparse-Type fallback; exact-head NativeAOT medians improve representative CoreLib overloads by 16–20% with neutral fallback behavior.
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richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
Release-coverage carry-forward for
explainfrom the 0.26.0 tracker:dotnet-inspect explain <resource-path>and merged as41b70c67f44ca0527fdcd92576114598131d872f, which is already an ancestor of the prospective 0.26.0 release commit.By maintainer direction, 0.26.0 release notes and release-managed central-document reconciliation will not cover this feature. The implementation will therefore be physically present but intentionally undisclosed in the 0.26.0 release artifacts; 0.27.0 owns its release-note and documentation adoption work. Preserve that distinction when preparing 0.27.0 rather than claiming the implementation first shipped there.
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
Release-managed shipped-skill reconciliation: #8166 updates every embedded
SKILL.mdthat still taught the removedtimelinecommand to usediff --history, including full-population, explicit-checkpoint, and adaptive-bisection policy. It also removes the obsolete Type/Member--baredecompiler guidance in favor of native output by default and explicit--markdownframing. This is maintenance input for the 0.26.0 preparation, not a separate product release-note candidate.richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
DateTimeOffset JSON fidelity for generated C# → TypeScript bindings and Inspect Web Package Changes adoption: #8157
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
CLI output grammar candidate for 0.27.0: #7946 replaces the Boolean presentation switches (
--json,--jsonl,--markdown,--plaintext,--table, and--tsv) with long-only--format <FORMAT>, and restores conventional-o/--output <PATH>destination semantics. Explicit format selection takes precedence over verbosity andDOTNET_INSPECT_FORMAT; standalone Mermaid remains distinct from the Markdown--mermaidmodifier.richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
Release-managed central-file reconciliation for #7946: update root
README.md,docs/overview.md, embeddedskills/**/SKILL.md, and release notes to teach--format <FORMAT>instead of the removed Boolean presentation switches, while retaining-o/--output <PATH>as destination syntax. The implementing PR now leaves those release-managed files unchanged; this comment is maintenance input for release preparation.richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
PR #8153 updates the Workspace CLI to
workspace packet encode|decode,workspace component list, and immutableworkspace package add|update|removeusing emitted canonical Package paths. During 0.27.0 release reconciliation, update README.md and the shippedskills/dotnet-inspect/SKILL.mdto replace the retiredworkspace-stateroute and positional--replace-package N --to-version ...examples. Those release-managed files are intentionally unchanged by #8153.richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
Inspect Web keyboard fix: #8169 makes Tab and Shift+Tab from the Application menu follow native document order, skipping controls outside the Tab sequence and preserving document-boundary traversal. First targeted slice for #8160; no central product-guide or shipped-skill reconciliation is needed for this existing-behavior fix.
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
PR #8152 preserves owner-issued source disposition and completion evidence through QuerySpace-backed section Rows, keeps useful partial rows visible, and prevents incomplete or unavailable populations from becoming exact Count. This completes step 7 of #6761 for the initial Relations path.
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
PR #8177 adopts target-bound PlatformHouse catalogs for versionless bare CLI type/member routing. It selects the highest eligible installed runtime at or above stable 10.0.1, keeps package fallback lazy and source-configured, projects exact assembly/runtime identity, and retires all transferred authorities before publishing the route result.
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
Carried forward from the 0.26.0 tracker to the current release: #8140 remains
open and unmerged.
Production House adoption: #8140 makes authored
member --print --part ... --markdownframe the selected source part insteadof ignoring Markdown. Native output remains the default; environment Markdown,
explicit plaintext/JSON precedence, exact selection, and the existing
part-record JSON schema are preserved.
Its review repair also honors the existing
-v:*Markdown selection acrossthe shared source-print callers, without changing native defaults or explicit
plaintext/JSON precedence.
Release-time central-guide suggestion: add an authored-part
--markdownexample near the root README's member-parts guidance and reconcile any relevant
shipped query/source skill examples. No central release-managed files are
changed by this focused #8057 slice.
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
PR #8182 corrects Metadata-owned
api.memberdeclaration findings so each local extension method is emitted once on its declaring static type. Receiver-attached discovery remains available to member presentation, extension-to-instance soft correspondence remains intact, and Finding Transition/Diff History censuses stop double-counting affected methods. No release-managed central documentation or shipped skill changes are needed.richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
PR #8183 exposes the explicit Library Metrics section for the Library command, rendering the Research-owned whole-library metrics report over Analysis implementation-profile evidence.
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
User-visible Inspect Web fix ready in #8180: preserve the Platform catalog history entry when opening Workspace, with Back/Forward, refresh, failure, supersession, and focus behavior covered by production-path browser gates.
richlander commentedon Sep 21, 2026
Performance adoption: #8186 adds the first measured QuerySpace compiler-acceleration kernel. Graph Libraries exact Count executes from captured source cardinality for predicate-free unordered Head/Tail/Window plans while Rows and unsupported Count retain the reference path.
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richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
PackageHouse adoption: #9995 routes explicit and durable package Root acquisition through one exact House compile realization, consumes the owner-issued receipt without repeated payload or asset selection, preserves producer and target identity, and applies ranged ZIP acquisition without retaining partial entry state. Exact-head NativeAOT evidence is latency/RSS neutral, reduces observed Root socket receive bytes by 82%, and keeps the complete Avalonia package-update workflow neutral.
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richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
CLI adoption slice 9 is in #9999:
package query --explain -Q depends,dependency-targetselects records from the shared model before assembly, retains required context and registered binding rules, and makes no package-source requests. Standalone discovery now derives its summary from route/binding registration. Missing producer-owned guidance is separately tracked in #9998. Browser admission remains the planned tenth slice; 8/10 are merged.Authored by Codex.
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
#10002: package acquisition reuses NuGet global-packages entries for nuget.org and other credential-free HTTP feeds again, not only for local feeds. An entry is used when its
.nupkg.metadatasource is that same feed. Endpoints that differ only in a query or path secret stay separate, and credentialed feeds still read none. A warm~/.nuget/packagesnow serves House-based commands such asdiff --historywith no downloads: with an empty app cache, about 0.3–0.5 s instead of 0.9–1.1 s for Newtonsoft.Json 13.0.1..13.0.3, NativeAOT, with byte-identical output.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
FlushAsync decompiler fidelity
PR #10003: #10003
Tracking #9625. The shared classic inverse now reconstructs RC1
Utf8JsonWriter.FlushAsync Full, preserving conditional awaits, field reset,
branch effects and property writes. The original exact Body Shapes query skips
three bodies instead of four. Two product whole-member fixture compile-backs
are Exact; runtime naming-only OperandDiff and structural/PDB limits remain
visible. Original source is included. Local build/focused/fast/harness gates
pass; CI and fixed-head review remain pending. No release-managed files edited.
— Codex
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
Browser adoption slice 10 is in #10005:
engine.package.explainPackageQuery(path, facetKeys)returns shared selected query-reading data with required context and registered Browser syntax/exposure. HAL is natural; explicit direct JSON uses the same selection. The generated facade uses nullable native string-array marshalling and ordinary worker transport, without query planning, acquisition, or workspace mutation. The UI control catalog retains its distinct consumer. 9/10 slices are merged; #9998 remains separate producer guidance work. CI, final evidence and review are in flight.Authored by Codex using the repository steward skill.
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
Member Metrics exact-family performance: #10006 carries the selected TypeDef token into Analysis and projects only that participant TypeDef for ordinary overload families instead of rebuilding the whole compatibility API surface. Extension families retain the compatibility route. Exact output is unchanged; diagnostic local CoreCLR median improved from 3.315s to 2.220s, with accepted NativeAOT evidence pending.
#10006
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richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
Inspect Web Ecosystem cards now omit the redundant
Workspace-readychip and retired internalPackage setterminology: #10010Authored with GitHub Copilot CLI.
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
depends -S Pruningnow applies the library pruning policy to application-authored references (#9981): #10017. A restorednet10.0app that references System.Text.Json 8.0.5 reportsPlatformDelegationwith reasonApplicationAuthored, instead ofNotEvaluated.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
Release tracking: #10023 retires the Type-side transitional inspection naming collision. It distinguishes the final public
TypeDocumentproducer from the reusableTypeSubjectInspection*substrate while preserving execution and serialized contracts. #10023richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
Validity assignment-context reporting
PR #9992 makes decompiler validity reports disclose unresolved out-call assignment context as explicit coverage unavailable, retaining raw compiler diagnostics. Genuine skipped-call defects remain failures. This is harness/reporting evidence precision; it supplies no new product compilation success or native fidelity gain.
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richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
depends -S "Latest Versions"reports Current, Latest In Major, Latest, Behind, and Majors Behind for every direct declaration (#9967, slice A): #10028🤖 Generated with Claude Code
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
Platform-reference graph slice: #10026
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richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
PackageHouse durable Root acquisition adoption: #9995
#9995
The PR routes explicit and durable package Root acquisition through
PackageHouse, preserves exact owner-issued selection evidence and caller
identity, applies ranged ZIP central-directory acquisition, and keeps host
cache and fallback policy explicit.
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richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
Proposed release entry for #10030: vocabulary
.dataand.halresponses now use compactvocabulary-reading/v1. Direct values are keyed by native identity with explicit owner order; HAL embeds vocabularies and their values. Selected meanings, map declarations, sparse flags/groups/defaults and exact term context are preserved. Repeated member navigation and automatic contract links are removed from this reading profile; ordinary compact and explicit.contractremain available. Existing jq scripts that depend on the previous selected shape must adapt. The release-owned skill text needs updating before packaging:skills/query/SKILL.mdmust read vocabulary values under each._embedded.vocabularies[]resource's._embedded.values, and retainscope(profile/completeness), replacing its old root-values/data_scope recipe.skills/dotnet-inspect/SKILL.mdmust retainscopefor query-preparation/v1 and vocabulary-reading/v1. No narrowing gesture is shipped by this slice. These exact edits are proposed here underdocs/repository-workflow.md#documentation-ownershipandtaste/skill-guidance.md; this feature PR does not edit release-managed skills. CLI/Browser value-selection admission follows #10015/#10016.Authored by Codex using the repository steward skill.
richlander commentedon Oct 13, 2026
PR #9995 has advanced to Round 6 exact head
e06e4a1544a82a493fff276418f744ef4b33059f.The candidate preserves original caller target intent across House-contributed
and API-match Root binding, including owner-default nested-only token
reopening. Release build and focused Root, binding, and compile-realization
gates pass. Current-head CI and the six-round boundary checkpoint remain
pending.
#9995
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