6.0.0-beta1

Features

• Tag Helpers: Modify TagHelper creation to activate ViewContext properties instead of inheriting from an interface. (#1258)
• Handle virtual paths in FilePathResult (#1201)
• Support customizing reflected model through attributes (#1192)
• Pre compile razor view - For fast startup (#1179)
• Rename ReflectedXxx to ControllerXxx (#1176)
• Tag Helpers: Enable TagHelpers in MvcRazorHost (#1165)
• Remove XmlSerializerOutputFormatter from the default output formatter collection (#1126)
• WebAPI compat package (#1124)
• Provide a sync version of @Html.Partial (#1107)
• Tag Helpers: Create a mechanism to create/activate TagHelpers. (#1104)
• Tag Helpers: Expose way to provide and use a writer on a RazorPage (#1102)
• Implement Browserlink Support (#1083)
• Allow a way to modify locations in which views are looked for without having to modify ViewEngine (#1039)
• It would be useful to have a IsPartial property exposed to IRazorPage (#1002)
• RazorViewEngineOptions shouldn't be a property of MvcOptions (#986)
• Support [Bind] attribute for compatibility with MVC5 (#982)
• No @Html.Editor() template for multiline text (#965)
• Razor view engine is hard to customize (#948)
• [DataType] and [DisplayFormat] ignored when choosing @Html.Display() and @Html.Editor() templates (#933)
• Setting Json Serializer Settings (#932)
• API Explorer: Link Generation (#885)
• Determine naming and documentation for ModelMetadata.ModelName \ prefix parameter in TryUpdateControllerAsync is appropriate (#865)
• Add attributes for [FromFormData] [FromQuery] [FromUrl] (#860)
• Bring back PartialViewResult (and related factory on Controller) (#824)
• Multiple [Http*] verbs should create multiple actions (#809)
• Controller should have Request and Response (and other) convenience properties (#803)
• Make UrlHelper methods virtual (#750)
• Consider renaming ReflectionActionDescriptor* to ControllerActionDescriptor* (#748)
• ViewComponents need to be activated with a pattern similar to controllers and views (#701)
• Tag Helpers: Build HtmlHelper equivalent tag helper defaults. (#687)
• Better DI For controllers - Property Injection (#604)
• Tag helpers (#581)
• Input XML Serialization & Binding (#511)
• Populate well-known properties in Controller if available (#466)
• Implement action results for returning files (#429)
• @ViewComponent.Invoke() should be able to invoke views (#285)

Bugs Fixed

• Update to JSON.NET 6.0.6 (#1473)
• Update the pdb writer availability check (#1440)
• Provide correct ViewDataDictionary<TModel>.ModelMetadata when Model is null (#1426)
• Rename OutputFormatter's WriteResponseContentHeaders to WriteResponseHeaders (#1221)
• Cannot pass a int parameter to the views from ViewComponent (#1214)
• During validation in DefaultBodyModelValidator if the modelAccessor of a model throws, it is not handled. (#1206)
• Dispose not being called on controller (#1202)
• EmptyResult should not set status code (or do anything for that matter) (#1156)
• Insert pragma checksum at top of generated Razor file to enable debugging. (#1152)
• Fix quality factor handling (NRE in MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValueComparer) (#1141)
• TypeConverterModelBinder cannot bind "byte" and "short" (#1123)
• [perf] DefaultActionSelector.HasValidAction allocate significant memory, which can be fixed. (#1114)
• Perf: Improve performance of writing attributes in Razor (#1082)
• Remove MvcRazorHostOptions once we finish #946 (#1003)
• ViewEngine shouldn't throw when it doesn't know about the extension (#984)
• protocol & host name ignored when creating action link (#926)
• Fix XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas in XmlReader to directly call the constructor (#758)
• @Html.Id() implementation does not usefully sanitize return value, breaking JavaScript / CSS selectors (#704)