.NET native tools 2.2 (UWP 6.2.x) Release Notes

You can see what was included in each .NET Native 2.2 (Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform 6.2.x) release below.

When using Visual Studio, these packages require Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.9.

Fix for RhpCallFilterFunclet stack misalignment on ARM causing runtime failures (https://github.com/dotnet/corert/pull/7744)
Fix for compiler crashes seen for SixLabors.ImageSharp API when targeting x86 and trying to generate mixed floating point/vector code
Fix for crashes seen when using System.IO.Directory.GetFiles and System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories on ARM32 with UWP apps (https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/27943#issuecomment-529400749)
Fix for crashes seen in rhbind.exe for some Unity apps
Fix to avoid incorrectly leaking COM thread state when returning threads to the OS thread pool
Fix for app crashes seen during garbage collection on ARM 32 due to heap corruption

Reduce optimizer maximum thread count for Store compilations to increase ingestion reliability
Fix issue in the analysis engine related to unsafe patterns that could lead to NullReferenceException (https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/2614)
Fix gatekeeper errors due to bad System.Private.Uri AssemblyVersion
Fix "Invalid IL" warning from some unsafe code patterns
Fix type system issue regarding parameter constraints on methods (https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/issues/828)
Fix interop compilation failure for gRPC Authentication package (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/18188)
Fix intop code generation failure for System.IO.ISoreafeItemHandleAccess.Create (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/310750/release-compile-fails-due-to-errors-in-mcg-generat.html)
Adjust garbage collection timing during interop to eliminate memory increase in UWP app when navigating between pages
Fix issue leading to Access Violation in the garbage collector caused by ARM32 volatile registers not being populated correctly
Fix reference assemblies for WCF so they have the expected public key (https://github.com/dotnet/wcf/issues/3743)
Fix issue causing Visual Studio 2017 hangs during debugging sessions

Adds support for ARM64
Improved performance for debugging scenarios (F5)
Addresses top customer issues with 6.1 and 6.2 Preview.
Addresses some issues when used with ReactiveUI 4.1. It is still recommended that projects wishing to use this package add ShortcutGenericAnalysis flag set to true to the projects.
Fix metadata reader issue leading to build failure when using Microsoft.ML.Net (https://github.com/XamlBrewer/UWP-MachineLearning-Sample/pull/1#issuecomment-469988557)
Fix crashes during resouce loading for some locales (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/386760/net-native-22-uwp-project-build-fail.html)
Fix crashes caused by improper escaping for application assets with spaces in path (https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/issues/930)
Add PackageConflictPreferredPackages property to avoid build breaks with certain package graphs
Fix issues related to Store upload failures (Error 1201)
Fix for a domain spoofing vulnerability which causes the meaning of a URI to change when International Domain Name encoding is applied. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could redirect a URI. (https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0657)

These are preview bits in advance of the release in November 2018 available in Visual Studio 15.9 Preview 3

These are preview bits in advance of the release in November 2018 available in Visual Studio 15.9 Preview 2

These are preview bits in advance of the release at the end of 2018