We are releasing a preview of our next major release, called 15.6. This release aligns with a new Visual Studio 2017 for Mac Preview and the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 Preview.
As this is a preview release, there are some known issues and the possibility of new issues being found during testing. Please check out the product release notes to see all the fixes and known issues.
Bug reports are welcome for any additional issues.
Products Released
- Visual Studio for Mac Preview 7.4.0.884
- Release Notes
- Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin 4.9.0.702
- Release Notes
- Xamarin.iOS 11.8.0.8
- Release Notes
- Xamarin.Android 8.2.0.6
- Release Notes
- Xamarin.Mac 4.2.0.8
- Release Notes
- Mono Framework 5.8.0.108
- Release Notes
- Xamarin Profiler 1.6.1.469 (Mac OS) Xamarin Profiler 1.6.1.468 (Windows)
- Release Notes
- Xamarin Remoted iOS Simulator 1.2.3.12
Installing
- Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.0 Preview 2 – Visual Studio Preview Installer
- Visual Studio 2017 for Mac – Beta updater channel
- Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Xamarin – Beta updater channel
You can switch back to the non-preview versions at any time by launching your side-by-side non-preview installation of Visual Studio 2017 and switching to the Stable updater channel in Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Xamarin.
15.6 Release History
Preview 2 – January 10, 2018
Preview 3 – This Release