Almir Vuk is a .NET Queue Lead Editor at InfoQ. He is dedicated to software development, primarily focusing on the .NET platform, crafting applications using C# and ASP.NET Core, as well as mobile development with Xamarin tools. Almir's insights into software as a service and open source software have made him a frequent speaker at Microsoft-related events and a contributor to the tech community.
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By: Almir Vuk
Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET 10, describing it as the most productive, modern, secure, and high-performance version of the platform to date. As stated by the company, the release is the result of a year-long effort involving thousands of contributors. It includes improvements across the runtime, libraries, languages, tools, frameworks, and workloads.
By: Almir Vuk
Aspire 13 has been released as a major milestone in the platform's evolution. As reported by the team, Aspire is no longer branded as “.NET Aspire” and is now positioned as a full polyglot application platform. According to the announcement, version 13 brings first-class support for Python and JavaScript alongside existing .NET capabilities, marking a significant shift forward.
Microsoft has detailed the major updates to ASP.NET Core arriving as part of last month's .NET 10 release. As reported, this version delivers extensive improvements across Blazor, Minimal APIs, OpenAPI generation, authentication, and general framework performance.
By: Almir Vuk
Aspire 13.2 brings expanded CLI with detached mode and process management, TypeScript AppHost support in preview, dashboard telemetry export and import, stable Docker Compose publishing, Microsoft Foundry integration, Azure Virtual Network support, and a major VS Code extension update. The release also includes several breaking changes to configuration files and resource commands.
By: Almir Vuk
Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 3, the third preview of its upcoming Standard Term Support version due in November 2026. The update spans the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and .NET MAUI, with Runtime Async leaving the preview-feature gate, new JIT optimizations, Zstandard compression in ASP.NET Core, and expanded MAUI Map controls.
Microsoft has released Aspire 13.3, introducing a new aspire destroy command for tearing down deployments across Azure, Kubernetes, and Compose. The release adds native Kubernetes deployment in preview, first-class JavaScript publishing for Next.js and Vite, browser log capture, and a default-enabled container tunnel, alongside several breaking changes developers should review.
By: Almir Vuk
Microsoft has released the fifth preview of .NET 11, with updates across the SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and EF Core. Highlights include file-based app improvements, new C# closed classes and unions, a Blazor validation wave, a large MAUI reliability rollup, and SQL Server 2022 as the default EF Core compatibility level.
Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Entity Framework Core. C# adds extension indexers and built-in union support types. ASP.NET Core brings async validation, automatic CSRF protection, and OpenAPI 3.2 by default. MAUI extends CollectionView to Windows, and EF Core adds FULL OUTER JOIN translation.
By: Almir Vuk
Last week Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 7, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, Windows Forms, and F#. C# adds labeled break and continue. ASP.NET Core brings Blazor circuit pausing, CacheView, and built-in validation localization. Windows Forms gains an opt-in modern rendering pipeline, and EF Core adds Half type support on SQLite.
By: Almir Vuk
Last week, Microsoft released Aspire 13.5, an update that refreshes the dashboard and the aspire.dev homepage and adds several quality-of-life features. The Interaction Service gains file imports and progress dialogs; resources can host an interactive terminal in the dashboard, and deployment adds Kubernetes persistent volumes and cross-scope Azure references.
