.NET MAUI 11.0.0-preview.7 Release Notes

.NET MAUI 11.0.0-preview.7 introduces significant improvements across all platforms with focus on quality, performance, and developer experience. This release includes 170 commits with various improvements, bug fixes, and enhancements.

Workloads

Workload Set: Microsoft.NET.Workloads.11.0.100-preview.7 @ 11.0.100-preview.7.26410.2

Installation

dotnet workload update --version 11.0.100-preview.7.26410.2
# Or install specific workloads
dotnet workload install maui ios maccatalyst android --version 11.0.100-preview.7.26410.2

Recommended Tools:

• Xcode: 26.6
• Java JDK: 21.0.8
• Android API-36

✨ New in .NET 11

The following 115 features and changes are unique to .NET 11 and not yet in the main branch:

Animation

• [iOS, Mac, Windows] Fix PlatformTicker does not respect animation accessibility setting by @HarishwaranVijayakumar in #35846

  🔧 Fixes

  • [iOS, Mac] PlatformTicker.iOS.cs does not respect Reduce Motion accessibility setting

Blazor

• [ci-fix-net11] Guard Blazor sample JS interop calls by @PureWeen in #36888

• [Sample] Remove obsolete Router.PreferExactMatches from gallery sample by @mattleibow in #36892

BlazorWebView

• [ci-fix-net11] Remove obsolete UseWebAssemblyDebugging from Blazor solution template (refs #36846) by @github-actions[bot] in #36855

• [Extensibility] BlazorWebView: Add custom platform handler registration by @kubaflo in #36658

  🔧 Fixes

  • BlazorWebView handler registration needs extensibility for custom platforms - Custom backends must bypass and reimplement AddMauiBlazorWebView() entirely

Border

• [Windows] Border: Keyboard tap support for TapGestureRecognizer by @Vignesh-SF3580 in #35578

  🔧 Fixes

  • Adding AutomationPeers to Windows Borders

CollectionView

• [ci-fix-net11] Fix Windows CollectionView UI test CI failures for net11 by @NafeelaNazhir in #36932

  🔧 Fixes

  • [ci-scan-net11] [CI] CollectionView WinUI UI tests fail with visual snapshot mismatches (multiple tests, 3+ builds)

• [Net11][ci-fix-net11][Windows]Fixed HorizontalGridFooterExpand test failure by @SubhikshaSf4851 in #37027

Core

• [net11.0] Make pending internal APIs public per .NET 11 TODOs by @SuthiYuvaraj in #36876

Essentials

• [Windows] Add AppInstance activation lifecycle hook and WebAuthenticator support by @IlGalvo in #36640

  🔧 Fixes

  • [Bug] Maui Essentials WebAuthenticator not working in WinUI

• [ci-fix-net11] Needs review: Fix CA1416 platform-compatibility build errors in Essentials (refs #36451) by @github-actions[bot] in #36619

Essentials Webauth

• [Essentials] Passkeys (WebAuthn/FIDO2) Essentials API by @mattleibow in #36837

Gestures

• [Extensibility] GestureManager: Expose factory and skip incompatible handlers by @kubaflo in #36655

  🔧 Fixes

  • Create IGesturePlatformManager so users can replace the behavior of our GesturePlatformManager a
  • GestureManager assumes handlers implement IPlatformViewHandler

• [Extensibility] Controls: Restore public AlertManager interfaces by @kubaflo in #36633

  🔧 Fixes

  • Create IGesturePlatformManager so users can replace the behavior of our GesturePlatformManager a

Graphics

• [release/11.0.1xx-preview7] Suppress CA1416 for legacy iOS image scaling by @PureWeen in #37090

Label

• [Material 3] Replace Material3 slider touch workaround and remove floating label by @HarishwaranVijayakumar in #36448

• [Net11]Improve label mapping performance and ensure complete coverage including ToPlatform and subsequent property changes by @devanathan-vaithiyanathan in #35892

• [Net11] Revert Improve label mapping performance and ensure complete coverage including ToPlatform and subsequent property changes by @devanathan-vaithiyanathan in #37087

ListView

• [ci-fix-net11] De-flake Issue1939Test (intermittent macOS grouped-ListView failure) by @github-actions[bot] in #36114

Map

• [Maps] Support custom icons for cluster markers by @kevin68 in #36336

  🔧 Fixes

  • Support custom icons for Maps cluster markers

• [iOS] Map: Update pin icon when Pin.ImageSource changes at runtime by @kevin68 in #36293

  🔧 Fixes

  • [iOS] Map: Pin.ImageSource changes are ignored at runtime (icon not updated)

Navigationpage

• [NET11][iOS/MacCatalyst] Replace NavigationRenderer with NavigationViewHandler by @Tamilarasan-Paranthaman in #36109

  🔧 Fixes

  • iOS NavigationHandler

• [release/11.0.1xx-preview7] Forward status bar style through NavigationPage handler by @kubaflo in #37047

Resizetizer

• [Resizetizer] Invalidate image outputs when platform type changes by @PureWeen in #36984

Shapes

• [ci-fix-net11] De-flake AOT warning baseline against volatile compiler-generated local-function ordinals by @github-actions[bot] in #36379

Shell

• Fix Shell.TitleView not being centered by @SuthiYuvaraj in #36458

  🔧 Fixes

  • [NET 11] G8 dotnet bot image is displayed at the beginning instead of being centered

• [net11.0][Android] Fix StackNavigationManager binary break and ShellItemWrapperFragment OnDestroyView gap (follow-up #34758) by @Vignesh-SF3580 in #36133

  🔧 Fixes

  • Android Shell handler — post-merge follow-ups (from #34758)

• [Android] [ShellHandler] Extend existing device tests to cover both Renderer and Handler code paths by @Vignesh-SF3580 in #36328

• feat: Shell route templates with {param} path parameters by @mattleibow in #35110

  🔧 Fixes

  • Shell GoToAsync: no way to pass query parameters to intermediate pages in multi-segment navigation

• [Net11][ci-fix-net11] [Android] Fix ShellContent not updating when Content property changes at runtime by @SubhikshaSf4851 in #36902

  🔧 Fixes

  • [ci-scan-net11] [CI] ShellContentShouldUpdateWhenContentPropertyChanges fails on Android API 30 UI tests (TimeoutException)

• [ci-fix-net11] Fix TopTabUnselectedTextVisibleWhenSwitchingTabs visual regression on Android Material3 by @devanathan-vaithiyanathan in #36911

  🔧 Fixes

  • [ci-scan-net11] [CI] TopTabUnselectedTextVisibleWhenSwitchingTabs fails on Android Material3 (visual regression, 3.07% snapshot
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• [ci-fix-net11] Needs review: guard CA1416 iOS platform-availability APIs in Shell/NavigationPage handlers (refs #36181) by @github-actions[bot] in #36961

• [Android] Shell: Fix fragment teardown crash by @PureWeen in #37048

• [release/11.0.1xx-preview7] Stabilize Shell SafeArea tab UI test by @kubaflo in #37061

Slider

• [Material 3] Make Material 3 Slider extension methods public by @HarishwaranVijayakumar in #36319

TabbedPage

• [Net11] [iOS/MacCatalyst] Migrate TabbedPage to handler architecture by @Tamilarasan-Paranthaman in #36507

  🔧 Fixes

  • Unified iOS TabbedViewHandler

• [net11.0][Android][Revert] TabbedPage automatic scrolling behavior by @SyedAbdulAzeemSF4852 in #37078

  🔧 Fixes

  • [Regression] TabbedPage on Android no longer fills width of page

Templates

• Revert unintended Sandbox sample changes from route-template work by @sheiksyedm via @Copilot in #36970

• Add Avalonia.Controls.Maui support to templates by @drasticactions in #35950

• [net11] Templates: remove Blazor render-mode workaround in maui-blazor-web by @mattleibow in #36484

Theming

• Add Window.StatusBarTheme to control status bar icon appearance on mobile by @mattleibow in #34903

  🔧 Fixes

  • Proposal: Window.StatusBarTheme — Control Status Bar Icon Appearance on Mobile

Tooling

• Revert Incremental Hot Reload Sandbox demo by @kubaflo in #36719

• [XAML] Enable Incremental Hot Reload by default in Debug by @StephaneDelcroix in #36682

• Turn XAML Incremental Hot Reload (XIHR) off by default by @StephaneDelcroix in #36832

• [XAML] XIHR: deterministic content-hash versioning + always-emit UpdateComponent by @StephaneDelcroix in #36833

• [Extensibility] Resizetizer: Enable external backend processing by @kubaflo in #36653

  🔧 Fixes

  • Resizetizer: extensibility for external backends

• [Extensibility] SingleProject: Register neutral-TFM backends by @kubaflo in #36654

  🔧 Fixes

  • SingleProject: Register and activate external backends for neutral TFMs

• XAML Hot Reload: Improve incremental generation and coverage by @Redth in #36730

  🔧 Fixes

  • Incremental XAML Hot Reload (.uc.xsg.cs) generates invalid this.Content = (IView)... causing CS0266 (and surfaces as empty ENC1002)

WebView

• [Android] Fix custom WebViewClient being overridden by MAUI handler mapper by @NirmalKumarYuvaraj in #34426

  🔧 Fixes

  • MAUI Handler not working with Custom WebView on Android (ShouldOverrideUrlLoading behavior)

• [ci-fix-net11] Fix HybridWebView InvokeJavaScriptAsync exception test failures on iOS, MacCatalyst, and Windows by @devanathan-vaithiyanathan in #36938

  🔧 Fixes

  • [ci-scan-net11] [CI] HybridWebViewTests_InvokeJavaScriptAsync: InvokeJavaScriptMethodThatThrows* fails on MacCatalyst, iOS, Wind
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Windows

• Add Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools.WinApp dependency for Windows apps by @mattleibow in #36889

Xaml

• [XAML] Incremental XAML Hot Reload (source-generated patch chains) by @StephaneDelcroix in #34338

• [XAML] Fix XIHR DataTemplate emission for multi-set and scoped templates by @StephaneDelcroix in #36683

• [XAML] SourceGen: Compile RelativeSource AncestorType bindings under AOT by @BagavathiPerumal in #34408

  🔧 Fixes

  • iOS wrong trimmed Relative bindings under config XamlInflator and AOT

• [release/11.0.1xx-preview7] Turn XAML Incremental Hot Reload (XIHR) off by default by @github-actions[bot] in #36881

• [Net11] Fix Maui.Controls.Sample build fails with MAUIG2045 by @devanathan-vaithiyanathan in #36882

  🔧 Fixes

  • [ci-scan-net11] [CI] Maui.Controls.Sample build fails with MAUIG2045 (binding property not found on ContentPage) in Integration
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• [XAML] Fix local Debug build of Controls.Xaml.UnitTests (stale diagnostic suppressions) by @StephaneDelcroix in #36868

• [ci-fix-net11] Resolve app theme dynamic resource from parent Application by @PureWeen in #36885

  🔧 Fixes

  • [ci-scan-net11] [CI] AppThemeTests.ParentSetResolvesAppThemeDynamicResourceWithoutListener fails on Windows Helix (Expected Light, Actual Unspec
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• [Net11] Fix for MAUIG2045 false-positive warning on unsealed RelativeSource AncestorType bindings by @BagavathiPerumal in #36905

  🔧 Fixes

  • [XSG] MAUIG2045 false positive for RelativeSource AncestorType bindings with derived ancestor types (regression from #34408)

• [Extensibility] XAML: Expose GTK, macOS, and WPF in OnPlatform by @kubaflo in #35901

  🔧 Fixes

  • OnPlatform/OnIdiom XAML markup extensions hardcode a closed platform/idiom set — custom backends can't express platform-conditional values

• [XAML] XIHR: remove the now-dead __version field and StableContentHash by @StephaneDelcroix in #36912

• [release/11.0.1xx-preview7] Avoid null TypedBinding source during ancestor detach by @PureWeen in #37095

• [release/11.0.1xx-preview7] [XAML] Re-enable Incremental Hot Reload by default in Debug by @PureWeen in #37163

Full Changelog: 11.0.0-preview.6.26360.8...release/11.0.1xx-preview7