Microsoft considers .Net 5.0 Preview 8 as feature complete

Microsoft has released the eighth preview of its upcoming .Net 5.0 release, and with this release, the software framework includes all the features included in the final release. Microsoft is now focusing on bug fixes.

Because all the functionality is now there, Preview 8 of .Net 5.0 is the latest preview version. Microsoft is releasing two more release candidates ahead of its final release in November. Users can test the latest preview for .Net 5.0 on Windows, Linux and macOS. For this they need the latest version of Visual Studio. Along with .Net 5.0 Preview 8, Microsoft will release new versions of Asp.Net Core and Entity Framework Core.

The 5.0 release of .Net contains many improvements and enhancements over previous releases. For example, C # 9 and F # 5.0 are part of the release and integrated in the sdk. C # 9 is aimed, among other things, at simplifying programming. In addition, .Net 5.0 includes support for WebAssembly with the Mono runtime and .Net Libraries. WebAssembly is a low-level supplement to JavaScript for browsers and other sandbox environments. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have been working on this open standard in the W3C WebAssembly Community Group. Finally, the performance of .Net 5.0 has been improved with the .Net Libraries, garbage collection and the jit.

Microsoft released the first preview of .Net 5.0 in March of this year. It is the successor to .Net Core 3, support of which ends in December 2022. Microsoft skips version number 4 to avoid confusion with the .Net Framework 4 releases. Version 4.8, released last April, was the last. Microsoft announced .Net Core 1.0 in 2016, as the cross-platform successor to the .Net Framework.