ILSpy 8 is based on .NET 6.0 compared to .NET Framework 4.7.2 for the previous generations of ILSpy. All artifacts except the self-contained distribution are built framework-dependent, which means .NET 6.0.2 must be installed prior to starting ILSpy.

Contributions

• PowerShell manifest (see #2976 by @jhoek)
• Make return duplication in ControlFlowSimplification less aggressive (see #2972 by @ElektroKill)
• Update Chinese translation (see #2970 by @Nyrest)
• Show a dark title bar when a dark theme in ILSpy is selected (see #2948 by @tom-englert)
• Consider constructor type when lifting decimal constants (see #2953 by @ElektroKill)
• Add more theme colors (see #2952 by @ltrzesniewski)

Enhancements

• R2R package refreshes

Bug fixes

• Fix #2956: Prevent loading all ResourceDictionaries eagerly
• Fix #2945: Do not treat arbitrary method references pointing to members of the current type definition as part of the method. Only do so for compiler-generated methods.
• Fix #2888: Tuple syntax cannot be used in is-expressions, use underlying type instead.
• Fix #2921: struct type definition contains duplicate default constructor.

And many other fixes, for a full list click here.