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_posts/2024-12-14-Caliburn.Micro-Future.md

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+### Caliburn Micro V6 Roadmap
+
+#### Upcoming Features
+- **Support for Uno Platform:** V6 will introduce support for the Uno Platform, enhancing cross-platform development capabilities.
+- **Xamarin Version to be Removed:** Due to Microsoft discontinuing support for Xamarin, V6 will no longer include a Xamarin Forms version.
+
+#### Performance Improvements
+- **Enhanced performance:** performance improvements for Caliburn Micro, optimizing both speed and efficiency.
+
+
+### Caliburn.Micro Extensions Project
+
+- **Project Overview:**
+  - This project will provide templates for Caliburn.Micro.
+  - The release will include a code generator to simplify `INotifyPropertyChanged`.
+
+- **IValue Converters:**
+  - Bool to Visibility converter for all platforms, not just UWP.
+  - URL to Image converter.
+  - Decimal to String converter for custom currency formatting.
+  - DateTime to String converter for custom DateTime formatting.

_posts/2024-12-14-V5-Beta.md

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+## Caliburn Micro V5 Beta Release Notes
+
+#### New Features
+- **.NET MAUI support**
+- **Avalonia UI support**
+- **WinUI 3 support**
+
+#### Supported Versions
+- **.NET:**
+  - .NET 8.0
+  - .NET 9.0
+
+- **.NET Framework:**
+  - Version 4.62 and later
+
+#### Deprecated Support
+- **.NET Framework:**
+  - 4.6.1 and lower
+- **.NET Core:**
+  - 3.1
+- **.NET:**
+  - 5
+  - 6
+  - 7
+
+#### Security Enhancements
+- **CodeQL scans**
+- **Added Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to NuGet packages**
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+- **Bug 762:** `ConductWith` now behaves consistently for `Activate` and `Deactivate`
+- **Bug 906:** Long-running tasks within `OnDeactivateAsync` now run on the captured context
+
+#### CodeQL fixes
+- **Code Scanning alert #199**:  Change Unsynchronized access to static collection member in non-static context (changed MessageBinder.SpecialValues to ConcurrentDictionary)
+- **Code Scanning alert #198 & 197**:  Change Unsynchronized access to static collection member in non-static context (changed NonResolvableChildTypes to ConcurrentDictionary)
+- **Code Scanning alerts # 2 - 9**:  Invalid string formatting (Updated string being passed by unit tests)
+- **Code Scanning alerts # 101 - 110**:  Reference equality test on System.Object (Using object.ReferenceEquals instead of == on objects)
+
+
+#### Additional NuGet Sources
+- **GitHub packages now include NuGet packages:** [link](https://github.com/orgs/Caliburn-Micro/packages)
+
+#### Updates and Improvements
+- **Xamarin.Forms updated to V5**
+- **Added unit tests for additional platforms**
+
+
+### Special Thanks
+
+A heartfelt thank you to @KasperSK, @K4PS3, @ravibaghel, @Dennis40816, @darxis, @Yinimi, @Stannieman, and @danwalmsley for your hard work.
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