#ServiceStack 2.20 Release Notes

The biggest feature in this release is the new Markdown support built-into ServiceStack and more

specifically its **Markdown Razor View Engine**. Markdown Razor is an MVC Razor-inspired templating

engine that allows you to generate dynamic Markdown and HTML using plain Markdown and Razor Sytnax.

View the new [Markdown Razor Introduction](http://www.servicestack.net/docs/markdown/markdown-razor)

for more information.

The first website to take advantage of the new Markdown templating support in ServiceStack is

**[http://www.servicestack.net/docs](http://www.servicestack.net/docs)** which is effectively built entirely

using ServiceStack's GitHub project Markdown wiki and README.md pages. To render the entire website

the transformed Markdown content is merged with a static **default.shtml** website template.

A nice feature of a Markdown-enabled website is that since the Content is decoupled from the website

template we are easily able to enhance the site using Ajax to load partial content page loads. This

provides a faster browsing experience since the entire webpage doesn't have to be reloaded.

See the [About ServiceStack Docs Website](http://www.servicestack.net/docs/markdown/about) for more

information.

Support was added to the Generic JSON and JSV ServiceStack C# Clients to work around MonoTouch's

No-JIT Restrictions. Unfortunately to do this we've had to create a new MonoTouch Build

configuration which doesn't use any C# Expressions or Reflection.Emit. So you need to download the

MonoTouch ServiceStack builds for running in MonoTouch.

**[Download MonoTouch-v2.20.zip](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/tree/master/release/latest/MonoTouch)**

An example MonoTouch project that uses these Sync and Async C# ServiceClients to talk to the

[RestFiles](www.servicestack.net/RestFiles/) web services is in the

[RestFilesClient Example project](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Examples/tree/master/src/MonoTouch/RestFilesClient).

- Added support for [IContainerAdapter](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/src/ServiceStack.Interfaces/Configuration/IContainerAdapter.cs) to let you [plug-in and use different IOC Containers](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/servicestack/A-W9scHaEBA/discussion)

- Allow alternate strategies [for resolving Service Types](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/servicestack/Sb7Rcnhte-E/discussion)

- If your IService implements IDisposable, it will be disposed straight after it's been executed.

* [**New users should download ServiceStack.Examples - v2.20**](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Examples/downloads)

* [Existing users can download just the ServiceStack.dlls - v2.20](https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/downloads)

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