<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>One last update.</div><div><br></div><div>Something had regressed in our new .net bindings where it used to work on Linux (something I blogged about years ago: <a href="https://themapguyde.blogspot.com/2018/07/introducing-new-experimental-bindings.html">https://themapguyde.blogspot.com/2018/07/introducing-new-experimental-bindings.html</a>) but my current attempts to get a sample <a href="http://asp.net">asp.net</a> core app using these bindings to work on Linux have failed. I have deduced it to be something around passing strings from .net that used to work, but is now scrambling the first few characters for the C++ string that means something fundamental as initializing the web tier with a path to webconfig.ini will fail because the first few characters of that webconfig.ini path get scrambled.<br><br>Experimental Linux support for the .net bindings was one of the features I had hoped to showcase for 4.0, but in light of this roadblock I am giving myself another week to try and solve it (I have a few ideas to try). If nothing pans out, then this experimental Linux support for the .net bindings will be parked for a future release and RC1 will be released.<br><br>So one way or another, RC1 will be released sometime next week.</div><div><br></div><div>- Jackie</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 00:22, Jackie Ng <<a href="mailto:jumpinjackie@gmail.com">jumpinjackie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>Another update.</div><div><br></div><div>Just as I make a breakthrough on one item, another item conspires to set me back!</div><div><br></div><div>In this case, it's the API documentation effort. The tool I adopted for generating .net API documentation (docfx), now no longer wants to generate a functional API documentation website based on the docfx config that I had initially laid out in Nov 2023!</div><div><br></div><div>Rather than waste precious time right now finding out what docfx broke and holding back RC1, I'm going to park this documentation work as a RC1 <-> Final activity and instead move on to the other items.</div><div><br></div><div>FDO now has an official 4.2 branch and all builds of MGOS 4.0 will now be based on this branch of FDO.</div><div><br></div><div>I am continuing with the managed binding finalization work (fixing up code samples, verifying dev patterns for our nuget packages, etc) before moving to a final sweep of web tier component updates and then it's finally time to put out that RC1 release!</div><div><br></div><div>- Jackie</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div>
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