Initial Beta

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Libraries

• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client
• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client.Abstractions
• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client.Json
• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client.Newtonsoft
• Sitecore.AspNet.ExperienceEditor
• Sitecore.AspNet.GraphQL
• Sitecore.AspNet.RenderingEngine
• Sitecore.AspNet.RenderingEngine.Abstractions
• Sitecore.AspNet.SearchOptimization
• Sitecore.AspNet.Tracking
• Sitecore.AspNet.Tracking.VisitorIdentification

These have been cleaned up, namespaces have changed to new name, dependencies have been optimized and updated to use .NET8

Testing Suite

• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client.Abstractions.Tests
• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client.Json.Tests
• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client.Tests
• Sitecore.LayoutService.Client.Integration.Tests
• Sitecore.AspNet.RenderingEngine.Tests
• Sitecore.AspNet.RenderingEngine.Integration.Tests
• Sitecore.AspNet.RenderingEngine.Benchmarks
• Sitecore.AspNet.Tracking.Tests
• Sitecore.AspNet.GraphQL.Tests

These have been cleaned up, namespaces changed, dependencies optimized, updated to .NET8 and updated to leverage latest versions of dependencies.

Modifications

Non-breaking

• Nullability throw when Item Path is missing from request when calling EE
• Required Value guards for TextField and RichTextField
• Required Value for DateField when empty ctor set to MinValue
• Nullability and log format improvement on GraphQLSiteCollectionService
• Field TagHelpers nullability fixes
• Fixed deserialization property names for JsonLayoutServiceSerializer
• Required Value improvements
• Fixed nullability issue with GraphQL.Client library
• FieldReader nullability adjusted
• SitecoreLayoutRequest nullable fix
• Use ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull
• Several Internals have been made Public

Breaking

• Removed Newtonsoft.Json
• Rearranged namespaces
• Removed .Abstractions dll for RenderingEngine
• Removed .Abstractions dll for Client
• Removed .Json dll for Client
• Removed .Newtonsoft dll for Client

Documentation

• Added GitHub Pages reference documentation generated by DocFX