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.  

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

.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. 

.NET 8 RC2 is now available. This is our last release candidate. This release includes new NuGet package READMEs for .NET packages, simple CLI-based project evaluation for MSBuild, publishing containers to tar.gz archives, and Tensor Primitives for .NET. 

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 friends
• WebApplication
• MVC and Razor Pages
• gRPC
• Endpoint metadata
• Logging
• Configuration 

Devs Demand Visual Studio 2022 Ditch Old .NET Framework Dependencies 

Performance Improvements in .NET 8 

.NET 8 RC1 is now available. This is our first of two release candidates. This release includes a new AOT mode for both Android and WASM, System.Text.Json improvements, and Azure Managed Identity support for containers. Now is great time to pick up and test .NET 8 if you haven’t yet.  

MVC in .NET 8
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