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+title: Board Meeting Minutes - November 2025
+date: "2025-11-12"
+excerpt: SHIP IT
+tags: meeting
+author: MonoGame Foundation
+image: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png
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+---
+
+## Attendees
+
+- Dean Ellis - President
+- Dominique Louis - Treasurer
+- Simon Jackson - Corporate Secretary
+- Tom Spilman - Banking Matters
+- Marko Jeremic - Board Chairman
+
+## Agenda
+
+- `3.8.5` Ship it already.
+- Funding updates, focus on outreach.
+- Considering MonoGame extensions on XNA from feedback.
+- DotNet 10, considering impacts and usage.
+- Improving build performance, focusing testing each target ONCE.
+- New content needed for the Content Pipeline, focusing on supporting strategies for console.
+
+## Outcomes
+
+- Focusing on merging final work and get the Preview release chain started, final gate to release.
+- Audio backend missing from Vulkan, DX12 - base implementation to be delivered in `3.8.5` for test.
+- Existing Assimp fix to be merged, to be monitored for the future.
+- Known issue with Assimp (3D import), pending work from the provider.  As it is an existing issue in 3.8.4, this will be fixed after 3.8.5 release.
+- Continual review of Native asset format handling, ongoing work.  Moving asset compilation/decompilation on the native framework.
+- Vulkan and DX 12 packaging to be generated.
+- MonoGame will continue to be built with DotNet 8 for the time being, until the DotNet 10 has been tested more.  Testing automation with DotNet 10 to "see how it goes".
+- Ongoing review of automation processes, to maximise efficiency.
+- Simon to collate all the best practices for Content to showcase a new stream/show and documentation. Stay tuned!
+
+## Outstanding Bounties
+
+All current bounties are either complete or in progress.
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