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DevTools 2.42.0 release notes

The 2.42.0 release of the Dart and Flutter DevTools includes the following changes among other general improvements. To learn more about DevTools, check out the DevTools overview.

General updates

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  • Added "View licenses" shortcut to the About dialog. - #8610

Inspector updates

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  • Enabled the new inspector by default. This can be disabled in the inspector settings. - #8650 Legacy inspector setting
  • Fixed an issue where selecting an implementation widget on the device while implementation widgets were hidden in the new inspector showed an error. - #8625
  • Enabled auto-refreshes of the widget tree on hot-reloads and navigation events by default. This can be disabled in the inspector settings. - #8646 Auto-refresh setting

Full commit history

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To find a complete list of changes in this release, check out the DevTools git log.

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