{"id":53375,"date":"2024-08-29T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?p=53375"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:03:58","slug":"announcing-dotnet-aspire-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/announcing-dotnet-aspire-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Aspire 8.2 – Goodbye Components, Hello Integrations!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aspire 8.2 is shipping today, and you can download or update to today’s release<\/a> now. While this release doesn’t introduce big new features like in Aspire 8.1<\/a>, it does improve onboarding, testing, and have other quality of life improvements. <\/p>\n

Components have a new name!<\/h2>\n

One of the major changes you’ll notice in Aspire 8.2 is that Aspire Components are now called “Integrations”! An Aspire Integration is a package that you add to your app that streamlines the process of setting up, starting up, and communicating with prominent cloud services and platforms.<\/p>\n

Integrations are used in two ways in project using Aspire:<\/p>\n

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  1. As a “Hosting” package added to your AppHost project, letting you easily spin up the resource and connect to it alongside your projects during local development.<\/li>\n
  2. As a package in your app code, for connecting to the resource created in your AppHost, as well as streamlining setup and defaults to lower the burden of adding a new cloud service.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We originally named these “components” because… well… they’re components! But we’ve realized that it’s such an overloaded term in development that we were actually just confusing people (and ourselves). Our documentation<\/a> has been updated to reflect the change to “Integrations” and we will be using that terminology in our content moving forward.<\/p>\n

    Testing, testing, and more testing<\/h2>\n

    Another core part of this release has been strengthening our own system to handle how often Integrations are updated. Of course, one of the best ways to do that is… tests! The Aspire team, along with some amazing community contributors, have been bolstering our suite of tests throughout this release so that we can quickly bump a version and make sure it isn’t going to break anything in your apps. A special thank you to our top contributors from the past month – @alirexaa<\/a>, @davidebbo<\/a>, and more<\/a> – for all the great work you brought into 8.2 for us.<\/p>\n

    Catch up & join Aspire events<\/h2>\n

    Since the launch of Aspire in May, together with the community we have had several events going deeper on development with Aspire. <\/p>\n