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').

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. 

Simplified the restriction information so that it occupies less space in the editors.

Fixed an issue with IContentUrlGeneratorEvents interface where both GeneratingUrl and GeneratedUrl did not contain URL query string information.

Fixed an issue where the ViewBag properties were empty in block views, even though it was populated with custom ViewData.

Fixed an issue where PropertyLinkItem and PropertyXhtmlString needed to be marked as modified to get persisted.

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.