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.NET Framework July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10, version 2004

Tara OverfieldJuly 31, 2020Jul 31, 202007/31/20

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 on Windows 10, version 2004. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET - Use FIPS-compliant hashes in ASP.Net telemetry data. - Addresses an issue where "Unspecified" was not an ...

.NET Framework July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Tara OverfieldJuly 14, 2020Jul 14, 202007/14/20

Today, we are releasing the July 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2020-1147– .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET Framework, Microsoft SharePoint, and Visual Studio when the software fails to check the source markup of XML file ...

Performance Improvements in .NET 5

Stephen Toub - MSFTJuly 13, 2020Jul 13, 202007/13/20

Explore many performance improvements, big and small, that have gone into the .NET 5 runtime and core libraries to make apps and services leaner and faster.

.NET Framework May 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates

Tara OverfieldMay 12, 2020May 12, 202005/12/20

Today, we are releasing the May 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2020-0605 – .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET software when the software fails to check the source markup of a file. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

.NET Framework February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup

Tara OverfieldFebruary 25, 2020Feb 25, 202002/25/20

Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR1 WCF2 Workflow Winforms 1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) 2 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Getting the Update ...

.NET Framework February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup

Tara OverfieldFebruary 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20

Today, we are releasing the February 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Security The February Security and Quality Rollup Update does not contain any new security fixes. See January 2020 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality...

.NET Framework January Preview of Quality Rollup

Tara OverfieldJanuary 23, 2020Jan 23, 202001/23/20

Today, we are releasing the January 2020 Preview of Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. Acquistion & Deployment CLR1 Net Libraries SQL Winforms WCF2 WPF3 1 Common Language ...

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We made Windows Server Core container images >40% smaller

Rich Lander [MSFT]December 9, 2019Dec 9, 201912/9/19

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 ...

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1

maoniDecember 9, 2019Dec 9, 201912/9/19

We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after I blogged about it last time but didn’t get around to it till now. First of all, let me point out that the target audience of this ...

Announcing ML.NET 1.4 general availability (Machine Learning for .NET)

Cesar De la TorreNovember 6, 2019Nov 6, 201911/6/19

Coinciding with the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference, we are thrilled to announce the GA release of ML.NET 1.4 and updates to Model Builder in Visual Studio, with exciting new machine learning features that will allow you to innovate your .NET applications. ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET ...

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