The first version of MatriX was released in February 2009. Now 6 years later we announce MatriX v2 pre release.

Over the last six years we released all new features and improvements always immediately to our customers, without making major changes in the version number. There have never been any breaking changes.

MatriX v2 has many major improvements in the core, but we also have done some minor changes in the Api. Most of the Api changes are related to Enum names only. Many of them were never compatible with the c# naming conventions.

They have been there because some of the supported .NET platforms were not able to parse the values case-insensitive, and there were no other ways to do this without using endless IF or SWITCH statements on all platforms.
Also some of the code is still left from the very first .NET version of our XMPP components in 2002, using .NET 1.0 and C# 1.0. In the very early days of c# many people were using Java, C or C++ conventions for the new c# language.

public enum MessageType
{  
    Normal,   
    Error,
    Chat,
    GroupChat,
    Headline
}

public enum MessageType
{
    normal,
    error,
    chat, 
    groupchat,
    headline
}

Updating even huge codebases to v2.0 should be very easy and take only some minutes.

With 2.0 we will also separate the NuGet packages by platform. This will allow us publishing NuGet packages much easier and more often. There is still lots of platform specific code in each MatriX edition which does not allow us to work on all of them in parallel.

• You can get MatriX v2 Pre via Nuget here
• or from the latest download here

Right now only builds for teh Full .NET Framework 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5 are available. All other platforms will be published in the next days.

Of course all MatriX licenses keys with Support&Maintenance are valid for v2 as well.

When you find any issues with the pre release please report them directly by Email to us, or use our forums.