Microsoft's .NET Core is now making its way to Raspberry Pi developer boards, and an official .NET 2.0 Core is coming from the software company later this year

Rider 2023.3: Support for .NET 8 SDK, the Latest From C# 12, Performance Enhancements, Predictive Debugging, and More AI-powered Features. 

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• ASP.NET Core support for native AOT
• Server-side rendering with Blazor
• Render Razor components outside of ASP.NET Core
• Sections support in Blazor
• Monitor Blazor Server circuit activity
• SIMD enabled by default for Blazor WebAssembly apps
• Request timeouts
• Short circuit routes 

GenFu is a test and prototype data generation library for .NET apps. It understands different topics – such as “contact details” or “blog posts” and uses that understanding to populate commonly named properties using reflection and an internal database of values or randomly created data.  

Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 2. It contains a set of smaller features and performance improvements. We’re continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release, some of which are starting to show up as initial designs at dotnet/designs.  

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is the latest version of Microsoft's recommended data access technology for applications based on the .NET Core framework. It has been designed to be lightweight, extensible and to support cross platform development. 

We are pleased to announce the release of .NET 9 Preview 7.

EF Core 8 RC 2: Smaller features in EF8 - .NET Blog 

Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release:

• Improved ASP.NET Core debugging experience
• Servers & middleware
  • IHttpSysRequestTimingFeature
  • SNI hostname in ITlsHandshakeFeature
  • IExceptionHandler
• Blazor
  • New Blazor Web App project template
  • Blazor router integration with endpoint routing
  • Enable interactivity for individual components with Blazor Server
  • Improved packaging of Webcil files
  • Blazor Content Security Policy (CSP) compatibility
• API authoring
  • Support for generic attributes
• SignalR
  • SignalR seamless reconnect
• Native AOT
  • Support for AsParameters and automatic metadata generation in compile-timed generated minimal APIs
• Authentication and authorization
  • Authentication updates in ASP.NET Core SPA templates
  • New analyzer for recommended AuthorizationBuilder usage