Today, we are excited to announce the sixth preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, F#, and container images. Check out the linked release notes below and get started today.<\/p>\n
This release contains the following improvements.<\/p>\n
dotnet test<\/code> gains new options and improved output<\/a><\/li>\n- Test templates support xUnit v3 and NUnit on Microsoft.Testing.Platform<\/a><\/li>\n
- File-based apps support
#:include .dll<\/code> references<\/a><\/li>\n- Container publishing supports multi-arch builds with Podman<\/a><\/li>\n
- TypeScript outputs integrate with Static Web Assets<\/a><\/li>\n
- CLI honors MSBuild server and standard OpenTelemetry env vars<\/a><\/li>\n
- See all SDK updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
C#<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- Extension indexers<\/a><\/li>\n
- Unions ship their support types in the box<\/a><\/li>\n
- See all C# updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\ud83c\udf10 ASP.NET Core<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- Async validation for minimal APIs<\/a><\/li>\n
- Automatic cross-origin (CSRF) protection<\/a><\/li>\n
- Blazor Virtualize can scroll to an item<\/a><\/li>\n
- OpenAPI 3.2 by default<\/a><\/li>\n
- Unions in ASP.NET Core<\/a><\/li>\n
- Short-circuit endpoints with an attribute<\/a><\/li>\n
- SignalR authentication refresh<\/a><\/li>\n
- Cancel hub invocations from the client<\/a><\/li>\n
- dotnet user-jwts supports file-based apps<\/a><\/li>\n
- See all ASP.NET Core updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\ud83d\udcf1 .NET MAUI<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- CollectionView2 comes to Windows<\/a><\/li>\n
- Handler-based Shell architecture on Android<\/a><\/li>\n
- Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility package removed<\/a><\/li>\n
- HybridWebView is now AOT-safe<\/a><\/li>\n
- Geolocation gains a minimum-distance filter<\/a><\/li>\n
- Android MediaPicker result recovery<\/a><\/li>\n
- .NET for Android<\/a><\/li>\n
- Apple platforms (.NET for iOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, tvOS)<\/a><\/li>\n
- See all .NET MAUI updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\ud83c\udf81 Entity Framework Core<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- LINQ query translation improvements<\/a><\/li>\n
- Keys and indexes traverse complex-type properties<\/a><\/li>\n
- Unconstrained foreign key relationships<\/a><\/li>\n
- Azure Cosmos DB provider improvements<\/a><\/li>\n
- Migrations improvements<\/a><\/li>\n
- Microsoft.Data.Sqlite now depends on SQLite3MC.PCLRaw.bundle<\/a><\/li>\n
- See all EF Core updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
F#<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- Array.init can inline initialization lambdas<\/a><\/li>\n
- Interpolated strings parse next to equals signs<\/a><\/li>\n
- FSI –quiet keeps restore output off stdout<\/a><\/li>\n
- Signature-file diagnostics catch missing semantic attributes<\/a><\/li>\n
- Debug sequence points cover more F# expressions<\/a><\/li>\n
- See all F# updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\ud83d\udce6 Container Images<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n- Azure Linux 4.0 images<\/a><\/li>\n
- Smaller Native AOT SDK images<\/a><\/li>\n
- See all container image updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\ud83d\ude80 Get started<\/h2>\n
To get started with .NET 11, install the .NET 11 SDK<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you’re on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest Visual Studio 2026 Insiders<\/a>. You can also use Visual Studio Code and the C# Dev Kit<\/a> extension with .NET 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 6 across runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, F#, and container images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11288,"featured_media":60418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[685,7233,7509,756,7237,859,636],"tags":[7893,7744],"class_list":["post-60417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dotnet","category-maui","category-aspnetcore","category-csharp","category-containers","category-entity-framework","category-fsharp","tag-dotnet-11","tag-featured-preview"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"
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