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The --no-restore path read Directory.Packages.props with ReadAllText and wrote it back with WriteAllText, which dropped a UTF-8 byte order mark and re-encoded UTF-16 files as UTF-8. Reuse the decoding used by the formatting replay so the original encoding and preamble are written back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per-target-framework PackageVersion entries for the same package still fall back to the dotnet add package output, so narrow the README claim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Write back the same string that is given to `dotnet add package -v` instead of formatting a NuGetVersion a second time. A caller that passes a version range only has to change that one string. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Variable-backed package updates can lose variable references with single-quoted or spaced attributes and overwrite BOM encodings, potentially leaving XML encoding declarations inconsistent with file bytes.
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Preserves the original layout of Directory.Packages.props during version-only upgrades, addressing the blank-line and final-newline loss reported in #723.
Changes:
- Replays version updates onto the original text when it matches the CLI’s resulting XML, preserving formatting and supported encodings.
- Adds regression coverage for repeated upgrades, variable references, imported props files, encodings, and real CLI behavior.
- Documents preservation behavior and its limitations.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
test/DotNetOutdated.Tests/EndToEndTests.cs |
Adds a CLI regression test for props whitespace preservation. |
test/DotNetOutdated.Tests/DotNetPackageServiceTests.cs |
Adds formatting, encoding, variable-reference, and repeated-upgrade tests. |
src/DotNetOutdated.Core/Services/DotNetPackageService.cs |
Preserves original formatting and encoding for compatible version-only updates. |
README.md |
Explains formatting guarantees and fallback behavior. |
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The formatting replay brings back the original attribute layout (single quotes, spaces around =, Version before Include, multi-line elements), but the variable restorer only matched Include="..." Version="...". On those layouts the property was upgraded while the package kept a literal version. Share the replay's version-attribute regex with the variable restorer. Addresses Copilot review on dotnet-outdated#803 (variable restoration). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
UpdatePackageVariable read and wrote the property and package files with ReadAllText/WriteAllText, so a variable-backed upgrade turned a UTF-8 BOM or UTF-16 file into BOM-less UTF-8 right after the formatting replay had restored it. Move the encoding round-trip into EncodedText and use it for both the --no-restore update and the variable restorer. Addresses Copilot review on dotnet-outdated#803 (variable updates overwrite encoding). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tespace Resolve the conflict in DotNetPackageService.TryUpdateCentralPackageVersion: keep dotnet-outdated#783's NotFound/Updated/NoMatchingEntry outcomes, its regex and its loud failure instead of the dotnet add --no-restore fallback, on top of this branch's FindCentralPackagesFiles walk and EncodedText write (BOM kept). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The --no-restore path still matched only Include="…" immediately followed by Version="…", so Version-before-Include, an attribute between them, single quotes or spaces around = were reported as NoMatchingEntry, and a commented-out PackageVersion was rewritten. Use PackageVersionMarkup.ReplaceVersion here too, now with a matched flag (match, not change, decides Updated) and CultureInvariant for the case-insensitive id. dotnet-outdated#783's NotFound/Updated/NoMatchingEntry outcomes are unchanged; a package mentioned only in single quotes now counts as found. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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PackageVersionMarkup scanned the start tag with [^>]* and a lookahead, so text inside another attribute's value could be taken for Include= or Version= (e.g. Notes="Version='legacy'" was rewritten instead of the version), a '>' inside a quoted condition stopped the match, and a version expression containing quotes was not matched. Tokenize the start tag into complete quoted attributes and replace only the Version value, up to its matching quote. Comments, CDATA and processing instructions are still skipped. Addresses Copilot review on dotnet-outdated#803 (match the complete quoted Version attribute). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Brings in dotnet-outdated#803 (preserve whitespace in Directory.Packages.props). The formatting replay and the --no-restore writer now receive the same range text that is passed to `dotnet add package -v` (VersionRange.ToVersionString), so a range written by the CLI keeps the file's original layout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Minor release: replaces McMaster command-line parsing with System.CommandLine (#808), adds support for versioned MSBuild project SDKs (#793), preserves version ranges (#702), MSBuild version variables (#805) and Directory.Packages.props whitespace (#803) on upgrade, adopts the MCP 2026-07-28 spec (#772), plus bug fixes and dependency maintenance since v4.8.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Minor release: replaces McMaster command-line parsing with System.CommandLine (#808), adds support for versioned MSBuild project SDKs (#793), preserves version ranges (#702), MSBuild version variables (#805) and Directory.Packages.props whitespace (#803) on upgrade, adopts the MCP 2026-07-28 spec (#772), plus bug fixes and dependency maintenance since v4.8.1. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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dotnet outdated -ucan remove blank lines and final newlines whendotnet add packagerewritesDirectory.Packages.props. Preserve the original layout for version-only updates, including repeated upgrades.Regression tests cover whitespace, encodings, variable references and repeated upgrades, including a real CLI test.
Closes #723