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Patch release 5.1.1: cap L10NSharp below v9 to fix TypeLoadException #371

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Problem

Chorus 5.1.0 was compiled against L10NSharp 5.x, which placed L10NSharpExtender in the L10NSharp.UI namespace inside L10NSharp.dll. The NuGet dependency was an open minimum (>= 5.0.0), so NuGet will resolve to L10NSharp 9.x if it is present in a consuming project.

L10NSharp v9 moved L10NSharpExtender to the L10NSharp.Windows.Forms namespace in a separate L10NSharp.Windows.Forms.dll. The old type no longer exists in L10NSharp.dll, causing a TypeLoadException at runtime when any Chorus UI form is loaded:

Could not load type 'L10NSharp.UI.L10NSharpExtender' from assembly 'L10NSharp, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=fd0b3e309a5b7c28'

Fix

Branch patch/5.1.1-l10nsharp-v9 (one commit off v5.1.0) tightens the constraint to [5.0.0, 9.0.0), preventing NuGet from resolving to the incompatible v9.

To publish a 5.1.1 patch release

  1. Check out the branch:
    git checkout patch/5.1.1-l10nsharp-v9
    
  2. Tag it:
    git tag v5.1.1
    git push origin v5.1.1
    
  3. The existing CI/CD pipeline should pick up the tag and publish the NuGet packages. Verify that SIL.Chorus.LibChorus 5.1.1 appears on NuGet with the corrected [5.0.0, 9.0.0) L10NSharp constraint.

Notes

  • No code or designer-file changes are needed — the old L10NSharp.UI API is intact in v5–v8.
  • Users who need L10NSharp v9+ compatibility should migrate to Chorus 6.x (which references L10NSharp 10.0.0-* and uses the new L10NSharp.Windows.Forms namespace).

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