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Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1

.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more!
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Announcing NuGet 6.8 – Maintaining Security with Ease

NuGet 6.8 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 8.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.8 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. Maintaining and understanding security status in your projects is now easier than ever in NuGet 6.8. We're happy to announce a plethora of new features to help you be aware potential vulnerabilities in your projects, visualize the configuration of precautionary measures to keep your code safe, and maintain fine-grained control over your dependency sources. NuGet 6.8 Highlights There are many new features in NuGet 6.8: NuGetAudit - Notificati...

Announcing .NET 8

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

Introducing .NET Aspire: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development with .NET 8
Introducing .NET Aspire: A cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications

.NET Framework November 2023 Security and Quality Rollup


November 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework

.NET November 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.14, .NET 6.0.25

Check out latest November 2023 updates for .NET 7.0 and .NET 6.0

Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8

.NET MAUI in .NET 8 has arrived with quality improvements, performance and memory improvements, desktop enhancements, and more.

Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 8
.NET 8 is now available! Check out all the new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core in this release.

Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) is available today
Announcing EF Core 8 (EF8) with complex types, primitive collections, better JSON, and exciting new query translations!

Announcing C# 12
Announcing the official release of C# 12, including collection expressions, primary constructors, and more!