Richard Lander

Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 1

September 13th, 2020

Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the first of two RCs before the official release in November. RC1 is a "go live" release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we're looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final ...

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 8

August 25th, 2020

Today, we are releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 8. The .NET 5.0 release is now "feature complete", meaning that very nearly all features are in their final form (with the exception of bug fixes still to come). Preview 8 is, appropriately, the last preview. We plan on releasing two go-live release candidates before the final .NET 5.0 release in ...

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7

July 21st, 2020

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 7. It's the second to last of the preview releases (before moving to RC). Most features should be very close to done at this point. Single file and ARM64 intrinsics are two feature areas that are taking the longest time to complete, but are on track for Preview 8. See the .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post for a ...

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 ...

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-...

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 ...

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 ...

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...