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Our Vision for .NET 9

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24

.NET Team

Welcome to .NET 9! Learn about how we're improving .NET for all kinds of apps, with a special focus on cloud native, AI, and performance.

Announcing .NET 8

November 14, 2023 Nov 14, 2023 11/14/23

Gaurav Seth

Today Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 8, the latest version of one of the world’s leading programming languages and development platforms.

Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 2

October 10, 2023 Oct 10, 2023 10/10/23

Jon Douglas

.NET 8 RC2 is now available with new NuGet package READMEs for .NET packages, simple CLI-based project evaluation for MSBuild, publishing containers to tar.gz archives, and Tensor Primitives for .NET.

Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 1

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Leslie Richardson

.NET 8 RC1 is now available with improvements to System.Text.Json, a new AOT mode for Android and WASM, Azure Managed Identity support for containers, and more!

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 7

August 8, 2023 Aug 8, 2023 08/8/23

Richard Lander

.NET 8 Preview 7 is now available with improvements to type containers, JSON source generation, and CodeGen as well as new support for HTTPS proxy, WPF open folder dialog, and iOS hybrid globalization.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 6

July 11, 2023 Jul 11, 2023 07/11/23

Justin Yoo

We're thrilled to announce .NET 8 Preview 6 which is packed with plenty of library updates, a new WASM mode, more source generators, constant performance improvements, and NativeAOT support on iOS.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 5

June 13, 2023 Jun 13, 2023 06/13/23

Jiachen Jiang

We're thrilled to announce .NET 8 Preview 5, featuring enhanced Metrics APIs, SourceLink integration, default Dynamic PGO, and Alpine ASP.NET Docker Composite Images.

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23

Jon Douglas

.NET 8 Preview 4 contains many exciting new features for the runtime and libraries, Native AOT improvements, modern build output and simplified paths, NuGet package security auditing, and much more!

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