Fixed an issue that threw an SQL exception in SPROC netApprovalAdd when you requested an approval on a content item with an anonymous user. The SPROC expected that the parameter @StartedBy is not null.

HttpContext.User.Identity.Name has changed from "" (empty string) to null between .NET Framework and ASP.NET Core.

Fixed an issue where you could not have the same segment for a "simple address segment" in a multisite scenario. An error stated that the same address segment was already being used.

Fixed an issue where a trailing slash was added to external URLs, even though they were specified without one.

Fixed an issue where the link validation job failed for relative links when no wildcard host was defined.

Fixed an issue where the WebSocket handler threw an exception for early termination because the remote party closed the WebSocket connection without completing the closing handshake.

Updated EPiServer.ImageLibrary.ImageSharp dependency to 1.0.1 which contains a vulnerability fix.

Fixed an issue that prevented the loading of an object as a PropertyBag. This issue occurred when a type with an enum property was stored in DDS and then later was no longer present. The missing missing enum value should have returned as an int but the load failed System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'key').

The product implementation of AspNet Identity now uses normalized usernames, which are indexed in the database. In conjunction with this, the performance of working with users in groups was significantly improved, which is reflected when working with approval definitions.

Fixed an issue where a console error was thrown if contentSelector was not defined.

Fixed an issue where Audiences were not sorted alphabetically by their names.