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Managed ilasm reaches parity, Roslyn telemetry goes instance-based

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Roslyn's managed ilasm now matches native ilasm across 2,868 ilproj test files, while the compiler platform lays groundwork for per-server telemetry in LSP daemon mode.

Managed ilasm (`src/tools/ilasm`) has been brought to near-parity with the native ilasm across 2,868 ilproj test files, starting from roughly 2,128 failures and reducing real (non-cosmetic) differences to zero actionable items [1][2]. The change spans 53 commits, 23 files, and +12,035 / -6,617 lines, including ANTLR grammar fixes for `.language`, `.line` (QSTRING support), and `value`/`instance` keywords in identifiers [2]. This is a breaking change for anyone relying on the managed ilasm's previous failure surface, but it closes the parity gap with the native tool.

Roslyn made `RoslynTelemetry` instance-based with an ambient `Current`, a pure, behavior-preserving refactor that is PR 1 of 3 [3]. In language-server daemon mode, where one process hosts multiple independent LSP servers, `RoslynTelemetry` currently holds process-wide static sink arrays, so every client's telemetry collapses into one `TelemetrySession` [3]. With nothing calling `SetCurrent`, all telemetry still resolves to one private default instance, preserving today's semantics while laying groundwork for per-server isolation [3].

In nullability analysis, the compiler now uses a non-null initial state for null-resilient properties in constructors [4]. The rule: do not share a slot when the property is null-resilient, because there is no strong connection between the property's and field's flow states and the field's value does not affect the get accessor's nullability [4]. This lets the analysis use the property's type instead of the field's type [4]. Separately, two Razor decl/impl split fallbacks were reduced by handling header-directive and `@inject` components, common shapes that were needlessly falling back to the slower separate-declaration-engine discovery [5].

On the runtime side, the browser-wasm CoreCLR `R2R_CG2` runtime-test job returns to the default `runtime` pipeline, continuing on error and staying out of the shared Helix monitor so known product failures remain visible without blocking unrelated PRs [6]. The temporary manual-pipeline implementation from #133308 is removed [6]. Two smaller fixes: the desktop certificate-context ownership test now requires `TargetsMobile` to be false, excluding tvOS and other mobile builds that were reaching an OpenSSL-specific path with an Apple ECDSA key [7]; and cryptography folder-specific instructions now cover all `System.Security.Cryptography*` libraries, `Microsoft.Bcl.Cryptography`, and shared cryptography source and tests [8].

Action items

References

  1. [1] Managed ilasm: comprehensive parity fixes with native ilasm (#131507) ↗ dotnet/runtime
  2. [2] Managed ilasm: comprehensive parity fixes with native ilasm ↗ dotnet/runtime
  3. [3] Make RoslynTelemetry instance-based with an ambient Current ↗ dotnet/roslyn
  4. [4] Use non-null initial state for null-resilient properties in constructors ↗ dotnet/roslyn
  5. [5] Reduce decl/impl split fallbacks: split header-directive and @inject components ↗ dotnet/roslyn
  6. [6] Restore non-blocking browser WASM R2R runtime tests (#133463) ↗ dotnet/runtime
  7. [7] Exclude desktop certificate context test from mobile builds (#133404) ↗ dotnet/runtime
  8. [8] Expand cryptography instruction scope (#133212) ↗ dotnet/runtime

Quick answers

What shipped in .NET on September 10, 2026?
Roslyn's managed ilasm now matches native ilasm across 2,868 ilproj test files, while the compiler platform lays groundwork for per-server telemetry in LSP daemon mode. In total, 54 commits and 50 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to .NET on September 10, 2026?
9 developers shipped this update, including dibarbet, RikkiGibson, Andrii Chebukin, chsienki, dependabot, Jeremy Koritzinsky, Pranav Senthilnathan, and Radek Zikmund, and 1 more.
What were the notable .NET updates?
Managed ilasm: comprehensive parity fixes with native ilasm (#131507), Managed ilasm: comprehensive parity fixes with native ilasm, and Make RoslynTelemetry instance-based with an ambient Current.