We are happy to announce the availability of .NET 8, the latest LTS version of one of the world’s leading development platforms. .NET 8 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, as well as platform and tooling enhancements. With this release, .NET reshapes the way we build intelligent, cloud-native applications and high-traffic services that scale on demand. It includes a set of proven libraries that are used today by the many high-scale services at Microsoft to help you with fundamental challenges around observability, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and more. Integrate large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT directly into your .NET app. Use a single powerful component model to handle all your web UI needs with Blazor. Deploy your mobile applications to the latest version of iOS and Android with .NET MAUI. Discover new language enhancements that make your code more concise and expressive with C# 12. Experience the fastest .NET to date with thousands of performance improvements including Dynamic Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) and AVX-512 instruction set support.
