Microsoft has introduced .NET 10 Preview 1, featuring significant improvements across multiple domains, including libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI. The release features enhancements in libraries, including the ability to locate certificates by thumbprints, identify PEM-encoded data in ASCII/UTF-8, introduce new method overloads, implement string normalization APIs, improve numerical ordering for string comparison, optimize ziparchive performance and memory usage, as well as additional methods for left-handed matrix transformations.
The features covers support for AVX10.2, a stacked allocation of arrays of value types, and additional AVX10.2 support. The SDK has undergone an update, introducing enhancements in C# related to explicit span conversions, field-backed properties, modifiers on simple lambda parameters, and various experimental features. Support for ASP.NET Core and Blazor has been established, while .NET MAUI has undergone quality enhancements, particularly with CollectionView improvements for iOS and Mac Catalyst. The release includes changes to Windows Forms, Entity Framework Core, and container images.
.NET 10 Preview 1 is now available!
oday, we are excited to announce the first preview release of .NET 10! We just shipped our first preview release, adding to some major enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more. Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today.
