Today, we are glad to release .NET 6 Preview 2. It includes new APIs, runtime performance improvements, and early builds of .NET MAUI. It also includes builds for Apple Silicon, which were missing for Preview 1. 

Today, we are releasing React 17! We’ve written at length about the role of the React 17 release and the changes it contains in the React 17 RC blog post. This post is a brief summary of it, so if you’ve already read the RC post, you can skip this one. 

The next stop for .NET 7 is General Availability, one month out, as Microsoft today shipped .NET 7 Release Candidate 2.  

We are thrilled to announce the highly anticipated .NET Conf 2024, a free, three-day virtual developer event celebrating the release of .NET 9. Co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, this annual tradition continues to grow, and we’re more excited than ever to bring you the latest innovations in .NET. Mark your calendars for November 12th to 14th, 2024, and prepare to be inspired by a wealth of knowledge, creativity, and community engagement.

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of the release candidate of TypeScript 3.6. This release candidate is intended to be fairly close to the full release, and will stabilize for the next few weeks leading up to our official release. 

Continuing with our release cadence, we’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 1. Since the first public preview in May 2022, anyone can download SQL Server 2022 RC1 to try the new features in this release. 

Today we are glad to announce an alpha release of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. This is the first official release of a new SignalR that is compatible with ASP.NET Core. It consists of a server component, a .NET client targeting .NET Standard 2.0 and a JavaScript/TypeScript client.