2.9.0 (RC2)

What's Changed

• Improve Code Quality / Tiding by @iamcarbon in #390
• Address minor regressions by @drewnoakes in #391
• Use ArrayPool for poolable byte buffers by @drewnoakes in #392
• Add AVIF support by @drewnoakes in #396
• Introduce BufferReader and eliminate a bunch of allocations by @iamcarbon in #393
• Minor tidying and perf by @drewnoakes in #398
• Port UnknownTagHandler by @drewnoakes in #399
• Extend Apple makernote support by @drewnoakes in #401
• Remove obsolete members on Tag class by @drewnoakes in #400
• Support NativeAOT by @drewnoakes in #397
• Introduce and use Indexed BufferReader methods by @iamcarbon in #402
• Reduce overhead reading byte/sbyte arrays from IndexedReader by @drewnoakes in #405
• Pool buffers in IndexedCapturingReader by @drewnoakes in #404
• Remove custom number formatting in ICC by @drewnoakes in #403
• Spanify top-level parsing for makernotes by @drewnoakes in #407
• TIFF extraction makes fewer, larger reads by @drewnoakes in #408
• Use spans in readers in .NET 8 by @drewnoakes in #410
• Allow filename to influence file type detection by @drewnoakes in #411
• Collapse .AsSpan().Slice(...) calls into .AsSpan(...) by @drewnoakes in #412
• Small perf fixes and some code reuse by @drewnoakes in #413
• Introduce ScopedBuffer by @iamcarbon in #415
• Spanify BplistReader by @iamcarbon in #416

Full Changelog: 2.9.0-rc1...2.9.0-rc2