We are releasing an updated preview of our next major release, called 15.5. This release aligns with a new Visual Studio 2017 for Mac Preview.
As this is a preview release, there are some known issues and the possibility of new issues being found during testing. Of course, additional bug reports are still welcome. If you see any suspicious behavior that you wish to report, please file a quick bug.
If you notice an error in this blog post or have trouble downloading one of the installer packages, please let us know in the corresponding forum thread.
- Forum Thread – 15.5 Feature Preview
Please check out the product release notes to see all the fixes and known issues for this release.
Products Released
- Visual Studio for Mac 7.3.0.790
- Release Notes
- Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin 4.8.0.752
- Release Notes
- Xamarin.iOS 11.4.0.214
- Release Notes
- Xamarin.Android 8.1.0.24
- Release Notes
- Xamarin.Mac 4.0.0.214
- Release Notes
- Mono Framework 5.4.1.7
- Release Notes
- Xamarin Profiler 1.6.0.25
- Release Notes
- Xamarin Remoted iOS Simulator 1.2.0.32
Installing
- 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.
15.5 Release History
Preview 1 – October 11, 2017
Preview 2 – October 23, 2017
Preview 3 – November 6, 2017
Preview 4 – November 14, 2017
Preview 5 – This release.