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What's new in this version:

New Language Features:
- C# 8.0: Nullable Reference Types
- C# 7.3: unmanaged generic constraint
- C# 7.3 Indexing movable fixed buffers: Fixed buffers can be indexed into without first being pinned
- Use Unsafe intrinsics to represent IL operations that cannot be expressed in C#
- C# 7.0 Generalized async return types
- C# 7.0 Local functions
- C# 7.0 Throw expressions

New Features:
- Decompile a set of assemblies to a solution
- New BAML Decompiler
- MSIX for Microsoft Store: @onovotny added build support (including Azure Pipelines)
- Generate VS Windows Forms Designer-compliant code if a method is identified as Windows Forms InitializeComponent
- Added new RemoveDeadStores option
- Added new AlwaysShowEnumMemberValues option

Decompiler Engine improvements and bugfixes:
- Improved stability of decompiler and disassembler on invalid metadata tokens
- Improved decompilation in case not all types/references are available
- Added switch-on-string pattern for empty string case
- Add support for ReadOnlySpan<T> initialization pattern
- Improved decompilation of ref readonly delegates and return types: improved decompilation of ref typed expressions, in particular ref/in extension methods and in parameters
- Improved support for Mono yield return state machines and closure types
- Improved decompilation of LINQ queries
- PDB generator now can emit "method stepping information" for async2

Improvements and bugfixes:
- Many minor bug and stability fixes
- Improved performance in ILInlining step
- VSIX: Fix issue of missing dependencies

UI Improvements:
- Avoid blocking the UI when waiting on assembly load while restoring the saved position in the treeview
- Support obfuscated names in treeview and search #1359
- Escape non-printable characters in IL view
- Rework C# decompiler options dialog (unify language settings panel)
- Make indentation of decompiled code configurable
- Chinese translation by @maikebing (#1299) screenshots
- Small improvements in search panel
- Show error message if an entity cannot be analyzed instead of crashing
- Improved linking in the decompiler view: method group / delegate references, the constructor of an attribute is reachable, by clicking on the open/close parenthesis, fixed fields are now properly linked
- Added matching bracket highlighting
- Updated to AvalonEdit 6.0 Preview

dotnet ilspycmd Tool:
- Add -d|-debuginfo option See Demo app
- Add -r|-referencepath option

Architectural Changes:
- We dropped support for all TFMs except netstandard2.0 #1416
- Reactivate many tests from old decompiler