net-daemon/netdaemon 23.46.0 on GitHub

👀 Summary

We are happy to announce the new .NET 8 based version 4 of the NetDaemon runtime. This is a big release with a few breaking changes. Please see https://netdaemon.xyz/docs/v3/app_model/app_model_moving_from_v3 how to move from runtime version 3 to version 4. It should be quite straight forward.

To summarize this release we updated the following:

All projects are now upgraded to .NET 8.
We fixed some important bugs that could lead to multiple instances running of the same ap
We now support pre-release releases as a way to allow user testing
Changes and upgrade to latest S6 in the official docker images of NetDaemon (container and add-on)
Some maintainability changes to make life as a NetDaemon dev a bit simpler
Move the features needed for Source Deploy (dynamically compiled apps) to own NuGet package.
Internal refactoring's to utilize some of that C# 12 goodies.
The dotnet cli tool to provision new projects now uses .NET 8 instead.

Other noteworthy changes

We cleaned up the branching strategy and only do main branch now
We changed the name of NuGet packages so we can take ownership of the name

A big shoutout to @helto4real , @FrankBakkerNl and @Barsonax for the hard work on this release.

💥 Breaking changes!

You now require .NET 8 to develop NetDaemon apps!
The names are changed for the NuGet packages, see https://netdaemon.xyz/docs/v3/app_model/app_model_moving_from_v3 how to migrate.
add-on now default looks for apps in the netdaemon4 folder instead of netdaemon3
Source deploy model now require an additional package when developing and running locally
The name of official docker images now ends with postfix 4 instead of postfix 3
You will need to upgrade the dotnet cli tool to latest version.

⚡ Enhancements

#990 Changes due to removal of dev branch @helto4real
#991 Fix remaining warnings @helto4real
#1001 Log correct json content of messages sent to HA on failed commands @FrankBakkerNl

🐛 Bug Fixes

#992 Handle and log exceptions during initialization after (re)connect to Home Assistant @FrankBakkerNl
#1001 Log correct json content of messages sent to HA on failed commands @FrankBakkerNl
#1004 Avoid logging critical error on reconnect when not needed @FrankBakkerNl

⬆️ Dependency Updates

#989 dependency updates @helto4real
#998 Release .NET 8! @helto4real