We are happy to announce the availability of .NET 8, the latest LTS version of one of the world’s leading development platforms, starting today. .NET 8 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, as well as platform and tooling enhancements that help increase developer productivity and speed of innovation
As we come to towards the end of 2023, we are excited to announce the general availability of PowerShell 7.4! This release is built on .NET 8 and similarly, is our latest Long Term Support (LTS) release supported for 3 years.
.NET Aspire is a new framework from Microsoft for simplifying cloud-native development with .NET. It provides an opinionated stack and developer experience for building resilient, observable applications.
ASP.NET Core 8 and .NET 8 bring many exciting performance improvements. In this blog post, we will highlight some of the enhancements made in ASP.NET Core and show you how they can boost your web app’s speed and efficiency.
.NET 8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core!
This is the last release candidate that we plan to share before the final .NET 8 release later this year. Most of the planned features and changes for .NET 8 are part of this release candidate and are ready for you to try out. You can find the full list of what’s new in ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 in the docs.
LinqBenchmarks
Benchmarks comparing the performance of LINQ against for/foreach loops and the following libraries:
Faslinq
Cistern.ValueLinq
JM.LinqFaster
LinqFasterer
LinqAF
SpanLinq
StructLinq
NetFabric.Hyperlinq
System.Linq.Async
In .NET 8, we’re investing in improving the debugging experience of commonly used types in .NET apps. These include:
HttpContext and friendsWebApplication 
Devs Demand Visual Studio 2022 Ditch Old .NET Framework Dependencies
Performance Improvements in .NET 8
MVC in .NET 8
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