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5.4 1.1 1.1 #91664 [mono][metadata] Fixes for static virtual methods with interface variance 🔄 BrzVlad@BrzVlad🔍: merge main (stale 623d) ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/0t 4ppl 930d 623d 77 BrzVlad@BrzVlad🔍 VM-meta-mono
4.9 2.2 1.6 #105415 remove some test exclusions. 👁 vsadov@vsadov🔍: review needed ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/0t 3ppl 608d 608d 6 mangod9@mangod9🔍 System.Threading
3.6 2.8 1.4 #89204 Enable use-after-return checking in ASAN jkoritzinsky@jkoritzinsky🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from am11@am11🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 1/1t 3ppl 979d 567d 215 jkoritzinsky@jkoritzinsky🔍 Infrastructure
3.6 3.3 1.6 #93902 Keep using RO metadata after creating IMetaDataImporter for PDB reading hoyosjs@hoyosjs🔍: respond to 5 thread(s) from jkotas@jkotas🔍, AaronRobinsonMSFT@AaronRobinsonMSFT🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 5/13t 4ppl 883d 565d 150 hoyosjs@hoyosjs🔍 Diagnostics-coreclr
4.9 3.3 2.1 #109649 Set TargetsLinuxGlibc to false on Android 👁 agocke@agocke🔍, jkotas@jkotas🔍: review needed ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/0t 4ppl 501d 501d 🐁 2 akoeplinger@akoeplinger🔍 Infrastructure
4.8 0 0.5 #102190 [wasm][workloads] Check downlevel runtime versions 🔄 maraf@maraf🔍: merge main (stale 470d) ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/1t 3ppl 679d 470d 102 maraf@maraf🔍 Workloads
5 1.7 1.3 #110721 Expression.Compile: empty the evaluation stack before evaluating second expression in OrElse and AndAlso 👁 333fred@333fred🔍: review needed ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/0t 1ppl 464d 462d 152 cston@cston🔍 System.Linq.Expressions
4 2.2 1.3 #111438 Add parameters for performance runs 👁 akoeplinger@akoeplinger🔍, LoopedBard3@LoopedBard3🔍: review needed ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/0t 2ppl 434d 434d 943 DrewScoggins@DrewScoggins🔍 Infrastructure-coreclr
5.6 2.8 2.1 #112022 Include datas in GCSettingsEvent 👁 agocke@agocke🔍: review needed 6 82/6/0 0/0t 4ppl 418d 418d 26 cshung@cshung🔍 GC-coreclr
4.1 0.6 0.7 #111819 Adding padding to precode mikelle-rogers@mikelle-rogers🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from jkotas@jkotas🔍 ❌ 72/8/0 1/1t 4ppl 424d 415d 23 mikelle-rogers@mikelle-rogers🔍 VM-coreclr
4.6 2.2 1.5 #99130 Optimize casts from constant byrefs MichalPetryka@MichalPetryka🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from EgorBo@EgorBo🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 1/1t 3ppl 754d 361d 8 MichalPetryka@MichalPetryka🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
3.9 1.7 1.1 #114017 Rename rapidjson helper functions 👁 jeffschwMSFT@jeffschwMSFT🔍: review needed ❌ 137/5/1 0/0t 3ppl 361d 359d 34 GrabYourPitchforks@GrabYourPitchforks🔍 Host
2.5 3.9 1.4 #107961 Add DNMD into src/native jkoritzinsky@jkoritzinsky🔍: respond to 2 thread(s) from am11@am11🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 🔥 2/4t 6ppl 553d 316d 29603 jkoritzinsky@jkoritzinsky🔍 Infrastructure
3.4 0.6 0.6 #110677 Update Stepping through GenericPInvokeCalli Stub under the Debugger mikelle-rogers@mikelle-rogers🔍: respond to 4 thread(s) from tommcdon@tommcdon🔍, noahfalk@noahfalk🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 🔥 4/4t 6ppl 467d 299d 138 mikelle-rogers@mikelle-rogers🔍 Diagnostics-coreclr
3.6 2.2 1.2 #114466 [android] Add -keepnativesymbols to Windows build steveisok@steveisok🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) ❌ 79/54/0 1/2t 3ppl 349d 297d 36 steveisok@steveisok🔍 Build-mono
6.1 3.3 2.5 #116164 Make sure binder gets enumerated 👁 max-charlamb@max-charlamb🔍, lateralusX@lateralusX🔍: review needed ✅ 88/0/0 0/1t 3ppl 298d 297d 🐁 1 hoyosjs@hoyosjs🔍 Diagnostics-coreclr
4.1 3.3 1.8 #116298 [mono][interp] Link try bblock with leave targets from catch block BrzVlad@BrzVlad🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from kotlarmilos@kotlarmilos🔍 ❌ 58/5/0 1/2t 5ppl 293d 292d 53 BrzVlad@BrzVlad🔍 Codegen-Interpreter-mono
3.6 1.1 0.8 #97326 [Mono]: Add support for callee saved XMM registers on Windows x64. lateralusX@lateralusX🔍: respond to 2 thread(s) from vargaz@vargaz🔍, VSadov@VSadov🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 🔥 2/2t 7ppl 792d 263d 260 lateralusX@lateralusX🔍 VM-meta-mono
4.2 0.6 0.7 #116651 JIT: enable stack allocation of more arrays in R2R AndyAyersMS@AndyAyersMS🔍: respond to 3 thread(s) from 🤖🔍, jkotas@jkotas🔍 ❌ 111/2/0 3/3t 5ppl 284d 253d 130 AndyAyersMS@AndyAyersMS🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
5.2 2.2 1.6 #116808 Delete VersionsWithType check from embedClassHandle 👁 davidwrighton@davidwrighton🔍: review needed ❌ 113/18/1 0/0t 3ppl 279d 249d 🐁 3 jkotas@jkotas🔍 crossgen2-coreclr
4.8 0.6 0.8 #103058 Use LTO for linux as well kunalspathak@kunalspathak🔍: respond to 3 thread(s) from a74nh@a74nh🔍, jkoritzinsky@jkoritzinsky🔍 ✅ 1/0/0 🔥 3/4t 9ppl 658d 237d 24 kunalspathak@kunalspathak🔍 Infrastructure-coreclr
3.6 1.1 0.8 #117223 Simplify System.Threading.Volatile implementation jkotas@jkotas🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from tannergooding@tannergooding🔍 ❌ 127/22/0 🔥 1/9t 7ppl 266d 231d 247 jkotas@jkotas🔍 System.Runtime
5.5 3.3 2.3 #116419 Improve deserialization of JSON primitives into JsonElement 🔄 PranavSenthilnathan@PranavSenthilnathan🔍: merge main (stale 228d) 1 71/1/0 0/4t 3ppl 289d 228d 224 PranavSenthilnathan@PranavSenthilnathan🔍 System.Text.Json
4.1 3.3 1.8 #118510 Remove workaround in tests for clearing EnableUnsafeBinaryFormatterSerialization elinor-fung@elinor-fung🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) ❌ 73/4/0 1/2t 4ppl 229d 228d 21 elinor-fung@elinor-fung🔍 System.Runtime
3.8 1.1 0.8 #118075 Add Compliance tests for GB18030-2022 jozkee@jozkee🔍: respond to 2 thread(s) from tarekgh@tarekgh🔍 ❌ 63/11/0 2/13t 4ppl 242d 224d 1279 jozkee@jozkee🔍 Meta
5.4 0 0.5 #113212 [wasm] Don't log errors for unsupported cases in PInvokeCollector 🛑 akoeplinger@akoeplinger🔍: fix CI failures ❌ 16/4/0 0/0t 3ppl 383d 224d 112 akoeplinger@akoeplinger🔍 Build-mono
5 1.7 1.3 #118571 System.Runtime.Serialization.Xml: throw SerializationException on malformed prefix 👁 StephenMolloy@StephenMolloy🔍: review needed ❌ 58/16/0 0/0t 0ppl 225d 222d 35 imcarolwang@imcarolwang🔍 Serialization
5.4 2.2 1.7 #118797 Tweaks to warning formatting MichalStrehovsky@MichalStrehovsky🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from 🤖🔍 7 101/7/0 1/2t 3ppl 221d 221d 11 MichalStrehovsky@MichalStrehovsky🔍 NativeAOT-coreclr
5 3.3 2.1 #109222 Factor LibraryImports in `System.Transactions.Local` to Common\ 👁 SamMonoRT@SamMonoRT🔍: review needed ✅ 81/0/0 0/0t 2ppl 515d 216d 565 Cdeeprobin@deeprobin🔍 System.Transactions
4.9 1.1 1 #108513 [Android] Put Java JNI function in a separate static library 🔄 grendello@grendello🔍: merge main (stale 214d) 3 143/3/0 🔥 0/7t 6ppl 537d 214d 74 grendello@grendello🔍 System.Security
5.8 3.3 2.4 #119078 [cDAC] Allow testing without fallback 👁 steveisok@steveisok🔍, jkoritzinsky@jkoritzinsky🔍: review needed 2 146/2/0 0/1t 2ppl 211d 210d 432 max-charlamb@max-charlamb🔍 Diagnostics-coreclr
3.9 3.3 1.7 #117502 Limit expansion in `TemplateConstructableTypes` 👁 agocke@agocke🔍, jkotas@jkotas🔍: review needed ❌ 123/3/1 0/0t 4ppl 257d 209d 427 MichalStrehovsky@MichalStrehovsky🔍 NativeAOT-coreclr
6.6 1.1 1.3 #118736 JIT: More precise side effect propagation in loop hoisting 🔄 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍: merge main (stale 202d) 3 99/3/0 0/2t 5ppl 222d 202d 39 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
7.1 0.6 1.1 #119464 [nativeaot] Don't overwrite `$(LinkNativeDependsOn)` property 🔄 grendello@grendello🔍: merge main (stale 196d) 2 87/2/0 0/0t 3ppl 197d 196d 🐁 2 grendello@grendello🔍 NativeAOT-coreclr
6.8 3.3 2.8 #118043 Make R2R single method mode compatible with composite mode 👁 agocke@agocke🔍: review needed 3 89/3/0 0/1t 2ppl 243d 182d 20 kg@kg🔍 crossgen2-coreclr
4.8 2.8 1.8 #118616 Explicitly asserting CodeExporter beliefs about specific types of DataContracts 👁 mconnew@mconnew🔍: review needed ❌ 71/5/0 0/1t 3ppl 225d 179d 32 StephenMolloy@StephenMolloy🔍 Serialization
3.4 3.9 1.8 #114028 Annotate System.ServiceModel.Syndication for trimming and AOT Creflectronic@reflectronic🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) ❌ 75/8/1 1/2t 3ppl 361d 179d 253 Creflectronic@reflectronic🔍 System.ServiceModel.Syndication
4.9 2.8 1.9 #119674 Remove redundant pinning over static fields/RVA EgorBo@EgorBo🔍: respond to 4 thread(s) from jkotas@jkotas🔍 ✅ 94/0/0 4/4t 3ppl 193d 175d 359 EgorBo@EgorBo🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
4.9 3.3 2.1 #108493 JIT: Use edge weights in `LinearScan::findPredBlockForLiveIn` 👁 JulieLeeMSFT@JulieLeeMSFT🔍, AndyAyersMS@AndyAyersMS🔍: review needed ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/0t 4ppl 538d 173d 10 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
3.2 3.3 1.5 #112151 JIT: Make `BB_UNITY_WEIGHT` 1.0 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍: respond to 3 thread(s) from 🤖🔍 ❌ 95/8/0 3/3t 5ppl 413d 173d 110 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
5 1.7 1.3 #105625 JIT: Remove fallthrough restrictions in `Compiler::fgOptimizeBranch` 👁 JulieLeeMSFT@JulieLeeMSFT🔍, AndyAyersMS@AndyAyersMS🔍: review needed ⚠️ 0/0/0 0/0t 2ppl 603d 173d 50 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
5.6 3.9 2.7 #107419 JIT: Try to maintain fallthrough in `Compiler::fgSplitEdge` 👁 JulieLeeMSFT@JulieLeeMSFT🔍, AndyAyersMS@AndyAyersMS🔍: review needed 2 109/2/0 0/2t 4ppl 565d 173d 41 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
4.1 2.2 1.3 #111005 JIT: Add TSPLIB dump capabilities to block layout amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍: respond to 2 thread(s) from AndyAyersMS@AndyAyersMS🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 2/2t 3ppl 449d 173d 143 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
5.4 3.3 2.3 #120934 JIT: Fix unnecessary GC transitions recorded for tailcalls jakobbotsch@jakobbotsch🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) ✅ 126/0/0 1/1t 4ppl 154d 152d 15 jakobbotsch@jakobbotsch🔍 via 🤖 CodeGen-coreclr
5.5 1.1 1.1 #120519 Allow ExternalTypeMap to have duplicates entries with identical mapping but different trimTarget 🔄 jtschuster@jtschuster🔍: merge main (stale 151d) 4 141/4/0 0/7t 5ppl 168d 151d 150 jtschuster@jtschuster🔍 System.Runtime.InteropServices
4.1 3.3 1.8 #120337 Define platform testing policy agocke@agocke🔍: respond to 6 thread(s) from jkotas@jkotas🔍, ericstj@ericstj🔍 ⏳ 4/0/2 🔥 6/11t 6ppl 173d 147d 56 agocke@agocke🔍 Meta
6.5 0.6 1 #107108 Make sure we can build with DYNAMIC_HEAP_COUNT not defined 🛑 cshung@cshung🔍: fix CI failures ❌ 84/2/0 0/0t 1ppl 573d 143d 9 cshung@cshung🔍 GC-coreclr
6.5 0.6 1 #103358 JIT: Add stress mode for skipping lowering conditional nodes to use CPU flags amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from jakobbotsch@jakobbotsch🔍 2 104/2/1 1/1t 5ppl 650d 123d 7 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
5 1.7 1.3 #107585 JIT: Simplify block insertion when cloning finally regions 👁 JulieLeeMSFT@JulieLeeMSFT🔍: review needed ❌ 14/66/0 0/0t 1ppl 561d 123d 122 amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
6.5 3.3 2.7 #122030 [WASI] Stop generation of Node.js execution script due to lack of preview2 support 👁 maraf@maraf🔍, akoeplinger@akoeplinger🔍: review needed 2 22/2/0 0/0t 0ppl 116d 116d 🐁 3 Cyamachu@yamachu🔍 Build-mono
6.8 2.2 2.1 #117952 Enable some HotReload tests for FieldRVA. 👁 tommcdon@tommcdon🔍: review needed 3 76/3/0 0/0t 2ppl 245d 108d 14 AaronRobinsonMSFT@AaronRobinsonMSFT🔍 Diagnostics-coreclr
5 3.3 2.1 #117473 Box value types implementing `IXmlSerializable` in `XmlSerializer` generated IL 👁 StephenMolloy@StephenMolloy🔍: review needed ✅ 79/0/0 0/0t 2ppl 258d 104d 2661 Cdaeghanelkin@daeghanelkin🔍 Serialization
6.5 0.6 1 #122424 Make System.Double/Single.ConvertToInteger intrinsic janvorli@janvorli🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from tannergooding@tannergooding🔍 2 91/2/0 1/1t 4ppl 104d 103d 6 janvorli@janvorli🔍 CodeGen-Interpreter-coreclr
4.9 3.9 2.4 #118874 [EventPipe] Add EventPipeBuffer corruption diagnostics mdh1418@mdh1418🔍: respond to 2 thread(s) from noahfalk@noahfalk🔍 3 136/3/0 2/11t 5ppl 218d 97d 450 mdh1418@mdh1418🔍 Tracing-coreclr
4.4 3.3 1.9 #99136 missing opportunities in constant folding around bitwise ops Cpedrobsaila@pedrobsaila🔍: respond to 7 thread(s) from amanasifkhalid@amanasifkhalid🔍 ✅ 122/0/0 7/7t 3ppl 754d 84d 541 Cpedrobsaila@pedrobsaila🔍 CodeGen-coreclr
5 1.7 1.3 #119419 Remove base DAM mismatch warning on types 🔄 sbomer@sbomer🔍: merge main (stale 74d) ✅ 115/0/0 0/9t 4ppl 200d 74d 463 sbomer@sbomer🔍 Tools-ILLink
4.2 3.9 2.1 #118257 Fix DataContractJsonSerializer not passing ISerializationSurrogateProvider to internal serializer 👁 stephentoub@stephentoub🔍: review needed ❌ 70/4/1 0/4t 4ppl 236d 60d 73 StephenMolloy@StephenMolloy🔍 via 🤖 Serialization
3.6 3.9 1.9 #121956 AOT publish passes with long paths on Windows 👁 maraf@maraf🔍, akoeplinger@akoeplinger🔍: review needed ❌ 102/31/0 🔥 0/6t 6ppl 119d 55d 193 ilonatommy@ilonatommy🔍 Build-mono
3.8 2.2 1.3 #116166 Fix building the sanitizer instrumentation and hooking it into the hosts 🛑 C39otsu@39otsu🔍: fix CI failures ❌ 152/5/0 🔥 0/4t 6ppl 298d 54d 119 C39otsu@39otsu🔍 Infrastructure
6.5 3.3 2.7 #122349 Enable ARM (32-bit) deb/rpm package generation 👁 NikolaMilosavljevic@NikolaMilosavljevic🔍: review needed ✅ 71/0/0 0/0t 0ppl 105d 52d 🐁 4 Ccsa7mdm@csa7mdm🔍 Infrastructure-installer
6 0 0.6 #119776 Release debugger thread tracker on the win32 event thread tommcdon@tommcdon🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from hoyosjs@hoyosjs🔍 ✅ 88/0/0 1/1t 3ppl 189d 47d 40 tommcdon@tommcdon🔍 Diagnostics-coreclr
6.3 0 0.6 #121892 Add runtime-coreclr gcstress-extra pipeline to build analysis agocke@agocke🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from 🤖🔍 ❌ 140/4/0 1/1t 1ppl 123d 47d 🐁 4 agocke@agocke🔍 via 🤖
2.9 5 1.9 #121883 Haiku: Process/thread management functions Ctrungnt2910@trungnt2910🔍: respond to 2 thread(s) from 🤖🔍, huoyaoyuan@huoyaoyuan🔍 ❌ 80/3/0 2/5t 5ppl 123d 37d 904 Ctrungnt2910@trungnt2910🔍 System.Diagnostics.Process
4.6 3.3 2 #121935 Fix inconsistente process start time CNeo-vortex@Neo-vortex🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from 🤖🔍 ❌ 106/4/0 1/1t 2ppl 120d 36d 🐁 2 CNeo-vortex@Neo-vortex🔍 System.Diagnostics.Process
3.6 3.3 1.6 #114983 Use SDK ILLink analyzer for OOBs for downlevel TFMs sbomer@sbomer🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from ericstj@ericstj🔍 ❌ 31/92/0 1/9t 4ppl 335d 35d 97 sbomer@sbomer🔍 Infrastructure-libraries
4.2 3.3 1.8 #120769 Support EVP_MAC for HMAC 👁 bartonjs@bartonjs🔍: review needed ❌ 89/5/0 0/2t 3ppl 160d 32d 382 vcsjones@vcsjones🔍 System.Security
3.7 5 2.3 #115294 Add APIs to `BlobBuilder` for customizing the underlying byte array et al. Cteo-tsirpanis@teo-tsirpanis🔍: respond to 4 thread(s) from AaronRobinsonMSFT@AaronRobinsonMSFT🔍, 🤖🔍 2 79/2/0 🔥 4/18t 8ppl 324d 22d 1152 Cteo-tsirpanis@teo-tsirpanis🔍 System.Reflection.Metadata
4.3 3.3 1.9 #104575 Add the new Lock type to Concurrent Dicionary eduardo-vp@eduardo-vp🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from stephentoub@stephentoub🔍 ⚠️ 0/0/0 1/3t 4ppl 624d 19d 68 eduardo-vp@eduardo-vp🔍 System.Collections
4 3.3 1.8 #119430 [API Proposal]: SequenceReader<T>.TryAdvanceTo(ReadOnlySpan<T> delimiter) Cpedrobsaila@pedrobsaila🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) ❌ 76/5/0 1/4t 3ppl 199d 16d 123 Cpedrobsaila@pedrobsaila🔍 System.Memory
3.6 2.2 1.2 #117584 System.Reflection.CustomAttributeFormatException thrown on a retrieval of derived attribute with overridden property getter Cpedrobsaila@pedrobsaila🔍: respond to 1 thread(s) from MichalStrehovsky@MichalStrehovsky🔍 ❌ 151/6/1 1/10t 4ppl 254d 15d 207 Cpedrobsaila@pedrobsaila🔍 System.Reflection