You can use the Themes of .NET Tool (themesof.net) to identify roadmaps and progress on various .NET releases.
Experiments with the new WASI workload in .NET 8 Preview 4
.NET 8 adds a new "wasi-experimental" workload, replacing the earlier Wasi.Sdk. This is a step towards giving .NET native, built-in support for server-side WebAssembly scenarios.
This video shows how to get started, then demonstrates how .NET+WASI creates possibilities for new kinds of apps and new ways to use .NET.
The fourth preview of Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 8 is available on NuGet today!
Basic information
EF Core 8, or just EF8, is the successor to EF Core 7, and is scheduled for release in November 2023, at the same time as .NET 8.
EF8 previews currently target .NET 6, and can therefore be used with either .NET 6 (LTS) or .NET 7. This will likely be updated to .NET 8 as we near release.
EF8 will align with .NET 8 as a long-term support (LTS) release. See the .NET support policy for more information.
.NET 8 Preview 4 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:
Blazor
Streaming rendering with Blazor components
Handling form posts with Blazor SSR
Route to named elements in Blazor
Webcil packaging for Blazor WebAssembly apps
API authoring
Expanded support for form binding in minimal APIs
API project template includes .http file
Native AOT
Logging and exception handling in compile-time generated minimal APIs
ASP.NET Core top-level APIs annotated for trim warnings
Reduced app size with configurable HTTPS support
Worker Service template updates
Additional default services configured in the slim builder
API template JSON configuration changes
Support for JSON serialization of compiler-generated IAsyncEnumerable unspeakable types
Authentication and authorization
Identity API endpoints
Improved support for custom authorization policies with IAuthorizationRequirementData
ASP.NET Core metrics
For more details on the ASP.NET Core work planned for .NET 8 see the full ASP.NET Core roadmap for .NET 8 on GitHub.
We’re excited to share all the new features and improvements in .NET 8 Preview 4! This release is a follow-up to the Preview 3 release. You’ll continue to see many more features show up with these monthly releases. .NET 6 and 7 users will want to follow this release closely since we have focused on making it a straightforward upgrade path.