Jon Douglas

Principal Program Manager, NuGet

Jon Douglas is a Principal Program Manager for NuGet at Microsoft. In his spare time he is most likely spending time with his family, performing comedy improv, or playing video games.

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Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 2

.NET 8 RC2 is now available with new NuGet package READMEs for .NET packages, simple CLI-based project evaluation for MSBuild, publishing containers to tar.gz archives, and Tensor Primitives for .NET.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4

.NET 8 Preview 4 contains many exciting new features for the runtime and libraries, Native AOT improvements, modern build output and simplified paths, NuGet package security auditing, and much more!

.NET 7 is Available Today

.NET 7 is a modern, fast, unified, and simple development framework to build any applications and is available today.

Announcing .NET 7 Release Candidate 2

.NET 7 Release Candidate 2 is the second of two release candidates that developers can now use in production. This post recaps major features included in the fastest .NET version to date.

Announcing .NET 7 Release Candidate 1

.NET 7 Release Candidate 1 is the first of two release candidates that developers can now use in production. This post recaps major features included in the fastest .NET version to date.

Announcing .NET 7 Preview 6

.NET 7 Preview 6 is now available with improvements to type converters, JSON contract customization, System.Formats.Tar API updates, constraints to .NET template authoring, and performance enhancements in the CodeGen area.

Announcing .NET 7 Preview 3

.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.