CollectionView is not currently being Garbage Collected

[marco-skizza]

Description

Hi

With the following Xaml on a page, the page doesn't get garbage collected when navigating back:

        <CollectionView ItemsSource="{Binding Items}">
            <CollectionView.ItemTemplate >
                <DataTemplate>
                    <Grid>

                        <Label Text="Test" />

                    </Grid>
                </DataTemplate>
            </CollectionView.ItemTemplate>
        </CollectionView>

Steps to Reproduce

• Run the project
• Click Button and go back again multiple times
• Observe that ~MyPage() never gets called

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/marco-skizza/MauiCollectionView

Version with bug

8.0.7 SR2

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

iOS, I was not able test on other platforms

Affected platform versions

iPadOS 17.3.1 on iPad mini 6

Did you find any workaround?

No

Relevant log output

No response

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[marco-skizza]

As I observed, the CollectionView also leaks when setting the ItemsSource in the code behind directly.
The CollectionView seems to leak as long as the ItemTemplate is not "empty", e.g. as long as it contains some "real" elements like the Label in my sample.