There are some really awesome new features—RTL!—that have been added in this release, and they’ve come with some important changes. 

What's new in the .NET Framework 4.6.1

PostSharp's Great Reset: Announcing Project "Caravela", a Roslyn-based aspect framework 

Announcing the new version of Microsoft To Do—we’ve come a long way!  

Ruby is, more or less, a dying language. It will probably take back off when Ruby 3.0 is released but right now, its popularity is on the decline.  

Perhaps you’ve seen the term REST being thrown around lately and have been a little curious what it’s all about. If that’s the case, or you know a little about it but never used it, this article is for you. Today I’m going to give a small overview of what REST services are, and why it’s awesome. 

Finalizers are interesting and dangerous because they are an environment in which everything you know is wrong. I’ve written a lot about the perils of C# finalizers / destructors (either name is fine) over the years, but it’s scattered in little bits over the internet. In this series I’m going to try to get everything in one place; here are a bunch of things that many people believe about finalizers, all of which are wrong.

Finalizers are interesting and dangerous because they are an environment in which everything you know is wrong. I’ve written a lot about the perils of C# finalizers / destructors (either name is fine) over the years, but it’s scattered in little bits over the internet. In this series I’m going to try to get everything in one place; here are a bunch of things that many people believe about finalizers, all of which are wrong.

• Installers and binaries: 7.0.10 | 6.0.21
• Release notes: 7.0.10 | 6.0.21
• Container images
• Linux packages: 7.0.10 | 6.0.21
• Release feedback/issue
• Known issues: 7.0 | 6.0  

Today we announce .NET 7 Release Candidate 1. This is the first of two release candidates (RC) for .NET 7 that are supported in production.