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- The dev team said that in response to developer feedback, VS for Mac 2019 v8.9 can now discover, run and debug Unity tests. That is, if Unity 2020 or newer editions are used and developers update the Visual Studio Editor package to v2.0.7 or later with a Unity menu command. Another Unity enhancement improves debugging.
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What's New in 8.10 Preview
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview Releases
- March 2, 2021 – Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 1
Release Highlights
Known Issues
Refer to the Known Issues section.
Feedback & Suggestions
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Release Notes
Latest Mac Software Update 2019
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 Preview 1 (8.10.0.407)
released March 2, 2021
Newest Macbook Update 2019
General
- We fixed several reliability issues.
- We updated Mono to 6.12.0.122 addressing CVE-2021-24112
Known Issues
The following is a list of all existing known issues in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10:
- After installing the latest .NET 5 SDK, developers of .NET Core 3.1 apps might see an error indicating 'The ASP.NET Core developer certificate is in an invalid state.'. Running
dotnet dev-certs https --clean
thendotnet dev-certs https --trust
from the Terminal will fix the issue. - In rare cases, it's possible to be up to date with everything but the .NET Core 3.1.300 SDK. If you enter into this configuration and update to .NET Core 3.1.300 using the updater, the notification to update the .NET Core SDK will not disappear until the IDE is restarted.
- On Big Sur gRPC projects may fail to build with an error
protoc' exited with code 255
. This is a problem with macOS platform detection in the gRPC.Tools NuGet package that is used by default in the project templates. A workaround is to update the gRPC.Tools NuGet package to version 2.34.0 or later. - In some cases, Android projects may fail to build with an error
The Java SDK could not be found, please set the path to it in the Xamarin.Android SDKs settings panel
. A workaround is to execute the following command in a Terminal:mkdir -p ~/Library/Android/sdk
.