v1.18.1

What's Changed

• Removed 1.17 from CI testing temporarily by @WhitWaldo in #1848

Full Changelog: v1.18.0...v1.18.1

What's Changed

General

• ADDED Dapr.SecretsManagement package #1794 to split secret management into its own client
• ADDED Dapr.StateManagement package #1806 to split state management into its own client
• ADDED Rich backwards-compatibility support added to the SDK to better support runtime API maturation lifecycles #1816
• ADDED Serializer refactored from Dapr.Workflow to Dapr.Common #1805 as a precursor to having common serialization across .NET SDK
• ADDED Add optional parameter to configuration providers for non-blocking startup #1844
• UPDATED Making DaprDefaults public #1845
• FIXED Prevent race condition during GrpcProtocolHandler disposal #1798

Actors

• ADDED UnloadStateAsync implementation #1750 to force actors to unload their currently cached in-memory state (no impact to persisted state). The next time GetStateAsync is called, the cache is repopulated as normal.

PubSub

• FIXED Subscriber resilience: SubscribeAsync now throws DaprException when the sidecar is unavailable instead of failing silently #1803

Metadata

• ADDED Added new Dapr.Metadata package for retrieving strongly typed data from the Dapr Metadata API #1846.
  To use, add Dapr.Metadata package from NuGet, register in DI with builder.Services.AddDaprMetadata() and simply inject IOptions<DaprMetadata>, IOptionsSnapshot<DaprMetadata> or IOptionsMonitor<DaprMetadata> and read the values out of the injected value.

Service Invocation

• UPDATED InvokeMethodAsync family marked [Obsolete] aligning SDK with prior runtime guidance — recommended guidance is to use a native HTTP/gRPC client for service invocation #1698.

Jobs

• UPDATED Jobs API marked stable #1804.
• UPDATED Minimum-version tags adjusted to reflect broader test coverage (#1811).

Workflows

• ADDED Workflow history context propagation (#1802)
• UPDATED Combined Dapr.Workflow meta-project (#1822) and automatic workflow/activity registration (#1823)
  This means that there is no longer a need to install Dapr.Workflow.Versioning or Dapr.Workflow.Analyzers separately. All are bundled in the one Dapr.Workflow package, no refactoring necessary (though you might want to remove the stale packages).
• UPDATED No longer logging connection closed exception when app closes #1841
• UPDATED Use server-blocking WaitForInstnace* RPCs instead of client polling #1843
• ADDED Timer origins and backwards-compatible optional timers (#1790)
• ADDED Add workflow analyzer diagnostics on versioning (#1815
• ADDED Expose name on workflow state #1836
• ADDED Support history propagation API #1825, #1833
• ADDED Expose workflow name on state #1836
• FIXED Workflow patch ordering #1807, #1809
• FIXED Trace propagation fix for downstream calls from workflow user activities #1808
• FIXED Addressing "no such instance exists" errors #1818, #1812
• FIXED Fix workflow trace correlation #1829
• FIXED add missing FailureDetails property to proto converter #1831

Miscellaneous/Testing

• ADDED Integration test project for Actors.Generators #1791.
• ADDED Adding gRPC probe with HTTP/2 preface to eliminate some transient Unavailable errors during integration testing via Testcontainers #1821
• UPDATED Stabilization of flaky integration tests #1813.
• UPDATED CI script more accurately auto-detects valid Dapr runtime versions to support automatic N-2 validation #1810
• REMOVED Removing deprecated analyzers/codefixes #1834

New Contributors

• @olitomlinson made their first contribution in #1750
• @Eckii24 made their first contribution in #1831
• @nelson-parente made their first contribution in #1825

Full Changelog: v1.17.9...v1.18.1