.NET 8 Preview 3 is now available, with changes to build paths, workloads, Microsoft.Extensions, and containers. It also includes performance improvements in the JIT, for Arm64, and dynamic PGO.
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.NET 8 Preview 2 contains a few updates/new features from Preview 1, including introspection support for function pointers, as well as some other runtime and libraries improvements.
.NET 8 Preview 1 introduces a roadmap for the year ahead, native AOT compilation, enhanced container and Linux support, and significant performance improvements.