Templates

v7.0

BREAKING Feature

New ASP.NET project template (shinyaspnet) — API + service host with Shiny Mediator endpoints, JWT bearer auth with refresh tokens, Orleans (clustering, reminders, persistence, streams, dashboard), SignalR sample hub, Scalar OpenAPI UI, and optional Google / Facebook / Apple social auth

BREAKING Feature

New Blazor WebAssembly template (shinyblazor) — standalone WASM client with optional MudBlazor / Radzen / Microsoft FluentUI, Shiny Mediator (with Blazor extensions), Shiny Blazor Controls, IndexedDB document store, Web Bluetooth, browser geolocation, web push, Web Speech, and AI Conversation

Feature

Per-platform target toggles for MAUI — useios, useandroid, usemaccatalyst, usewindows let you scope the TFM list (and skip the matching Platforms/{platform}/ folder) without hand-editing the csproj

Feature

DocumentDb provider choice for both MAUI and ASP.NET — pick from SQLite, SQLite (SqlCipher), SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, LiteDB, DuckDB (server) or IndexedDB (browser); registration is wired in Program.cs / MauiProgram.cs with sensible defaults and TODO callouts where credentials are needed

Feature

AI options across the Shiny stack — Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Shiny Mediator AI Tools (aimediator), Shell AI Tools (aishinyshell), DocumentDB AI Tools (aidocumentdb), and Shiny AI Conversation with auto-wired Speech support

Feature

Speech & Audio — Shiny.Speech 2.1 STT/TTS plus audio source and audio player registration; available in MAUI (native APIs) and Blazor (Web Speech API)

Feature

Shiny.Maui.Controls suite — Scheduler (Calendar/Agenda/Events), BottomSheet, ImageViewer (pinch/pan/zoom), PillView status badges, SecurityPin, Fab / FabMenu, plus add-on packs for Markdown (view + editor), Mermaid Diagrams (no WebView), Barcodes & QR Codes (managed renderer), and the new Desktop pack (Tray Icon, VS-style window Docking, touch/kiosk on-screen keyboard for Windows/macOS/MacCatalyst/Linux)

Feature

Shiny.Blazor.Controls suite — same control library for Blazor with Markdown, Mermaid Diagrams, Barcodes, and a Kiosk pack for touch on-screen keyboard and docking in WASM

Feature

Geospatial DB (Shiny.Spatial) and Geofencing extension wired for MAUI — dependency-free, AOT-friendly R*Tree-backed store

Feature

Contact Store (Shiny.Maui.ContactStore) — cross-platform device contact CRUD with MAUI permissions

Feature

Background HTTP Transfers and Bidirectional JSON Sync (Shiny.Data.Sync) toggles for MAUI

Feature

MAUI DevFlow integration — debug-only visual tree / profiling / network monitor / AI agent toolkit, wired in MauiProgram.cs and scoped to Configuration == Debug

BREAKING Enhancement

Target framework moved to .NET 10 (net10.0) across MAUI, ASP.NET, and Blazor templates; existing MAUI projects must add <TargetFrameworks> for -android/-ios/-maccatalyst/-windows10.0.19041.0 to match the new platform-target bools

BREAKING Enhancement

MAUI csproj now uses per-train version variables — ShinyVersion (client packages), ShinyControlsVersion, ShinyShellVersion, ShinyDocumentDbVersion, ShinyMauiHostingVersion, MediatorVersion. Replace your local $(ShinyVersion) references if you forked the csproj.

Enhancement

Bumped to Shiny Client 5.0.0-beta-0135, Shiny Controls 1.0.1-beta-0102, Shiny MAUI Shell 6.2.0, Shiny Mediator 6.6.1, Shiny.DocumentDb 6.1.0, Shiny.Speech 2.1.0, Shiny.AiConversation 1.0.0-beta-0050, MudBlazor 9.5.0, Radzen.Blazor 10.4.7, Microsoft.FluentUI 4.14.2, Microsoft.Extensions.AI 10.7.0, Scalar 2.16.2

Enhancement

Auth handlers (Handlers/Auth/*) automatically force Shiny Mediator on when JWT auth is enabled — no more silent breakage when you turn mediator off and leave auth on

Enhancement

Three new built-in template builders on the docs site — pick options visually for MAUI, ASP.NET, or Blazor WASM and download the project, identical to dotnet new shiny{kind}

Chore

Removed the Speech Recognition standalone template (folded into Shiny.Speech)

Chore

Switched stores to [Bind] attribute-based persistence — see Shiny Stores for the new pattern

v5.0

Feature

Add Shiny Health integration — cross-platform health data access for HealthKit (iOS) and Health Connect (Android) with full permissions and entitlements setup

Enhancement

Update Shiny.Maui.Shell and Shiny.Maui.Shell.UxDiversDialogs to v5.0.0

Enhancement

Update all 3rd party libraries to their latest versions

Enhancement

Remove dead packages or those that are not AOT compliant

v4.0

Enhancement

Reorganize all 3rd party libraries and place category in front of each to improve clarity and ensure it is nicely organized on Visual Studio

Enhancement

Remove old libraries that haven’t been receiving updates