Question

Do any one knows, what are the changes made in Caliburn Micro 1.1 to 1.5.1, beside adding support to WinRT and Windows Phone 8.

I need this Info, since I am using Caliburn Micro 1.4 in my project and want to update it to 1.5.1?

If there are any major changes, I will go for it.

Is there any change in the naming Conventions?

Answer 1

This is taken from each of the release’s changes.txt:

1.2

• Improvements to EventAggregator to improve testability and re-use apart from the full Caliburn.Micro framework.
• Enabled basic child containers for the SimpleContainer.
• Some improvements to the nuget install script.
• Improvements and bug fixes for View/ViewModel name resolution.
• Fixed some NRE’s in the new UriBuilder. NO explicitly throws if it cannot locate the view.
• Improved logging around searched for Views/ViewModels.
• Fixed bugs with the WP7 version of Screen.OnViewReady. It now works consistently.
• Improvements to PropertyChangedBase and BindableCollection to better support serialization.
• Moved IsInDesign mode out of Bootstrapper and into the Execute class.
• Added WP7 platform abstractions for vibration and sound effects, including enabling the window manager to play sounds when showing a custom modal dialog.
• Fixed some bugs in the WindowManager related to bubbling actions.
• Fixed some issues with the WPF navigation service.
• Minor refactoring to enable the new “feature packages”.

1.3

• Improved serialization of PropertyChangedBase and BindableCollection
• Enabled the WP7 UriBuilder to actually build a Uri without navigating.
• Added SetUIThreadMarshaller method to Executor to allow customization of the framework’s default thread marshalling behavior.
• Added optional settings parameters to all window manager apis.
• Changed FrameAdapter to inject query string parameters into the ViewModel before the conventional databinding takes place.
• Added a new WinRT project. WinRT now supports Execute, BindableCollection, PropertyChangedBase, ExtensionMethods, EventAggregator and SimpleContainer.
• Fixed some WPF bugs in Screen
• Vast improvements and API enhancements to ViewModelLocator and ViewLocator for easier customization of location conventions.
• Fixed a potential memory leak in coroutines that are cancelled and re-used.
• Enabled design-time application of convention bindings (preliminary support). To turn this feature on, set the Bind.AtDesignTime attached property to true for your view. If you are using blend’s design-time data generation, you can optionally replace ViewLocator.ModifyModelTypeAtDesignTime to perform custom mapping to views. It shouldn’t be needed though.
• Turned ConventionManager.ConfigureSelectedItem into a delegate to allow customizations.
• Added ConventionManager.ConfigureSelectedItemBinding delegate aimed to allow the inspection of the proposed binding and its customization or rejection.
• Added Support for WP7 Mango
• Added Support for Silverlight 5
• Various improvements made to the NavigationService; improvements to navigation away, tombstoning, etc.
• Fixed some WPF bugs with TabControl
• Some improvements to integration between the tombstoning mechanism and the IoC container.
• The Application property of the Bootstrapper is no longer globally available, to help prevent misuse.
• Some breaking changes in ConventionManager API related to bug fixes in ItemsControl conventions.
• Enabled overriding of default services in PhoneContainer
• Assemblies are now marked as CLSCompliant.
• Added a new Func to ViewLocator called DeterminePackUriFromType. This function maps a View Type to pack Uri for use in navigation scenarios. Since there is no way to reliable way to determine the Uri from a type, a default implementation is provided which should work for most cases, but can be replaced for other scenarios. This function is used internally by the WP7 UriBuilder.
• Updated the SL5 build to use the new native UpdateSourceTrigger.
• Enabled ValidatesOnExceptions when conventional validation is turned on for a binding.
• Fixed a certain long-standing bug which caused problems when conventions were applied via the Bind.Model property inside of a virtualizing control with container recycling enabled. This may have fixed some other intermitent issues related to the Bind.Model property as well.

1.3.1

• Switching to Semantic Versioning.
• Added some exception handling for design time bootstrapper operations.
• Added a custom converter to the MessageBinder so that we can handle converting to DateTime from string.

1.4

This includes no changes.txt, so the best I could find was:

This version includes many bug fixes across all platforms, improvements to nuget support and…the biggest news of all…full support for both WinRT and WP8.