WebAssembly Steals the ASP.NET Core Show in .NET 7 RC1 

.NET 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core.

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

• Dynamic authentication requests in Blazor WebAssembly
• Handle location changing events
• Blazor WebAssembly debugging improvements
• .NET WebAssembly build tools for .NET 6 projects
• .NET JavaScript interop on WebAssembly
• Kestrel full certificate chain improvements
• Faster HTTP/2 uploads
• HTTP/3 improvements
• Experimental Kestrel support for WebTransport over HTTP/3
• Experimental OpenAPI support for gRPC JSON transcoding
• Rate limiting middleware improvements
• macOS dev-certs improvements 

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. 

TL;DR: .NET 7 is fast. Really fast. A thousand performance-impacting PRs went into runtime and core libraries this release, never mind all the improvements in ASP.NET Core and Windows Forms and Entity Framework and beyond. It’s the fastest .NET ever. If your manager asks you why your project should upgrade to .NET 7, you can say “in addition to all the new functionality in the release, .NET 7 is super fast.” 

In .NET 7, we've finished the moving the thread pool to be fully managed. The timer queue and the windows IO thread pool have been moved to managed code.  

Entity Framework Core 7 (EF7) Preview 7 has shipped with support for several new interceptors, as well as improvements to existing interceptors. 

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

• New Blazor WebAssembly loading page
• Blazor data binding get/set/after modifiers
• Blazor virtualization improvements
• Pass state using NavigationManager
• Additional System.Security.Cryptography support on WebAssembly
• Updated Angular and React templates
• gRPC JSON transcoding performance
• Authentication will use single scheme as DefaultScheme
• IFormFile/IFormFileCollection support for authenticated requests in minimal APIs
• New problem details service
• Diagnostics middleware updates
• New HttpResults interfaces 

his is the last preview for .NET 7 and the next version will be our first release candidate (RC).