11.2.0: .NET MAUI Dependency Update & RatingView ⭐️

What’s Changed

• Rating view by @GeorgeLeithead in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2191
• SpeechRecognition fixes by Vladislav Antonyuk in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2562
• Enhance copilot instructions for C# best practices by James Crutchley in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2586
• fix TouchBehavior Android KeyBoard activation by @plewm in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2497
• Enable developers to inherit from BaseBehavior and BaseConverter again by Shaun Lawrence in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2573
• Run UserStoppedTypingBehavior Command on UIThread by Pedro Jesus in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2591

Requirements

The following tools are now required for CommunityToolkit.Maui:

• Download/install .NET SDK v9.0.202
• Install Xcode 16.2.0 (or higher)
  • Read the latest .NET MAUI Release wiki to always find the latest-supported version) of Xcode for .NET MAUI
  • We HIGHLY recommend using the open-source tool Xcodes to easily manage your installed Xcode versions
• Update to the latest stable version of Visual Studio (or Jet Brains Rider)
• After installing the latest stable .NET SDK, update to the latest stable version of the .NET MAUI workload:
  • On macOS, open the Terminal and enter the following command: sudo dotnet workload install maui; sudo dotnet workload update
  • On Windows, open the command prompt (or Powershell) and enter the following command: dotnet workload install maui & dotnet workload update
• Add a global.json file to your application with the following parameters to ensure you’re not using a unsupported preview version of .NET (example below)
  • The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit does not support preview releases of .NET

global.json

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "9.0.202", 
    "rollForward": "latestFeature",
    "allowPrerelease": false
  }
}

Le keeping the house

• [Housekeeping] Increase minimum .NET SDK dependency to v9.0.202 by Brandon Minnick in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2592
• [Housekeeping] Add Co-Pilot Prompts by @GeorgeLeithead in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2576
• [Housekeeping] Fix Typos in CONTRIBUTING.md by @GeorgeLeithead in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2544
• [Housekeeping] Clean up AvatarView sample namespaces by @GeorgeLeithead in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2546
• Increase Microsoft.Maui.* Dependencies to v9.0.40 by Brandon Minnick in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2525
• Bump MauiPackageVersion to 9.0.50 by Pedro Jesus in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2584

New Contributors

• @dotMorten made their first contribution in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2549
• @phunkeler made their first contribution in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2523
• @plewm made their first contribution in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/2497

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/compare/11.1.0…11.2.0