Today brings a new build of Autofac, now designated “Release Candidate”.
Autofac 2.1.9 includes the last of the critical changes for a full release. Since 2.1.8:
- Many bug fixes and small usability enhancements
BeginLifetimeScope()now allows additional components to be configured for the child scope- An AutofacContrib build for both .NET 3.5 and 4.0 is available (AutofacContrib.DynamicProxy2 not yet included)
- Two new adapters for the zoo:
Indexed<TKey,TValue>for dictionary-like dependenciesMeta<T>for un-typed metadata, available on .NET 3.5
- API documentation can be viewed online at api.autofac.org (this reflects the .NET 3.5-compatible version.)
Autofac 2.1 RC is now the recommended version for new projects. Please bear with us while the wiki is updated to reflect the new API.
Many thanks are due to the contributors and user community who have made this release possible, as well as my teammates at Readify who have put up with a bombardment of Autofac 2 material in the last few months 
Get the downloads for .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 here.
Congratulations Nick! The new version is looking good. I still think you should have jumped straight to 4.0.
[...] Autofac 2.1 goes RC (the “me too!” release) (Nicholas Blumhardt) [...]
[...] Autofac 2.1 goes RC (the "me too!" release) – Nicholas Blumhardt announces the release of AutoFac 2.1 RC. AutoFac is an Inversion of Control library that uses on modern C# techniques to implement IoC in a slightly different way to the traditional libraries. [...]
Dictionary like dependencies?
I can only imagine……
Thanks for all the hard work you’re putting into this. One question though (isn’t there always?); does this release come alongside a working version of AutofacContrib.Prism (plus maybe an article on your implementation like Ward’s
)?