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Advisory on July 2018 .NET Framework Updates

July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Update as of 7/30/2018: A new .NET Framework July 2018 Update has been released that resolves this advisory. We recommend that you install this update on your systems if you experienced the symptoms described in this advisory. If you did not experience these symptoms, we recommend you wait to update your machines until the next regular update...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3632

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
Vivek Mishra
We released the first Early Access build for the .NET Framework 4.8 last month (June-2018) and are happy to announce the next build (3632) for your feedback. This is one of the in-development builds of the next version of the .NET Framework and includes incremental fixes from the last build (3621). You can download the installer and provide ...

Razor Improvements – Feedback Wanted

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
Recent releases of Visual Studio 2017 focus greatly on improving the experience of working with Razor. The improvements address the most pressing customer-facing issues like formatting changes and providing general performance and reliability for IntelliSense. Now that the fixes and enhancements are publicly available, we would like to learn more about your experience with the Razor editor.

IL Linker — Help us build the best experience!

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18
Bri Achtman
We are currently working on the IL Linker and would love to get your feedback. Please fill out the brief survey below and help shape the future of the IL Linker by telling us about your current practices as well as your biggest challenges with the build and deployment processes for your apps. At the end of the survey, you can leave your name ...

.NET Framework 4.7.2 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog

July 10, 2018 Jul 10, 2018 07/10/18
Vivek Mishra
8/20/2019 Update: The .NET 4.7.2 update has been republished to work around a known issue in Config Manager that resulted in errors when Config Manager tried to sync with an upstream WSUS server. Please note that there is no change to the installers below.    Today, we are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 is ...

.NET Core July 2018 Update

July 10, 2018 Jul 10, 2018 07/10/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.12, .NET Core 1.1.9, .NET Core 2.0.9 and .NET Core 2.1.2. Security .NET Core Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2018-8356: Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability that exists when .NET Core does not correctly validate ...

Announcing ML.NET 0.3

July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18
Cesar De la Torre
Two months ago, at //Build 2018, we released ML.NET 0.1, a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We’ve gotten great feedback so far and would like to thank the community for your engagement as we continue to develop ML.NET together in the open. We are happy to announce the latest version: ML.NET 0.3. ...

System.IO.Pipelines: High performance IO in .NET

July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18
David Fowler
System.IO.Pipelines is a new library that is designed to make it easier to do high performance IO in .NET. It's a library targeting .NET Standard that works on all .NET implementations. Pipelines was born from the work the .NET Core team did to make Kestrel one of the fastest web servers in the industry. What started as an implementation ...

Workaround for Bower Version Deprecation

July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
As of June 25, the version of Bower shipped with Visual Studio was deprecated, resulting in Bower operations failing when run in Visual Studio. If you use Bower, you will see an error something like: This will be fixed in Visual Studio 15.8. In the meantime, you can work around the issue by using a new version of Bower or by adding some ...