Richard Lander

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 6

June 25th, 2020

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with Previ

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5

June 10th, 2020

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 5. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but many are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be very close to feature-compl

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 3

April 23rd, 2020

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 3. It contains a set of new features and performance improvements. We're continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. The .NET 5.0 Preview 1 post covers what we are planning on building for .NET 5.0. Please take a look at the post and the dotnet/designs repository and share

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 2

April 2nd, 2020

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 2. It contains a set of smaller features and performance improvements. We're continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release, some of which are starting to show up as initial designs at dotnet/designs. The .NET 5.0 Preview 1 post covers what we are planning on building for .NET

We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller

December 9th, 2019

Over the past year, we've been working with the Windows Server team to make Windows Server Core container images a lot smaller. They are now >40% smaller! The Windows Server team has already published the new images in the Server Core Insider Docker repo, and will eventually publish them to their stable repo with their 20H1 release. You can ch

Announcing .NET Core 3.1

December 3rd, 2019

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.1. It's really just a small set of fixes and refinements over .NET Core 3.0, which we released just over two months ago. The most important feature is that .NET Core 3.1 is an long-term supported (LTS) release and will be supported for three years. As we've done i

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3

November 14th, 2019

Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3. .NET Core 3.1 is a small and short release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0.. It will be a long term support (LTS) release. We are coming near the end of the 3.1 release and expect to release it in early December. You can download

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2

November 4th, 2019

Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small and short release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0.. It will be a long term support (LTS) release with an expected final ship date of December 2019. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 2 on Windows

Announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1

October 15th, 2019

Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0. It will be a long term support (LTS) release with an expected final ship date of December 2019. You can download .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1 on Windows, macOS, an

Joining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot

September 23rd, 2019

Joining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot The .NET Foundation is starting a new pilot program to increase quality and user confidence in open source projects, using a new project maturity model. We've been working with the Technical Review Action Group at the Foundation to help shape the program. We're happy to see the pilot being laun