.NET 11 Release Candidate 1

[jongalloway]

We are pleased to announce the release of .NET 11 Release Candidate 1. Follow the main announcement and blog announcement.

This is our first of two release candidates which come with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production applications. This release of .NET 11 is supported in the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders release alongside Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit. Check out the full release notes below and get started today.

This release contains the following highlights and improvements.

Browse the release notes for a full list of improvements in this release:

• .NET MAUI
• ASP.NET Core
• C#
• F#
• Container images
• EF Core & Data
• Libraries
• MSBuild
• NuGet
• Runtime
• SDK
• Windows Forms

Get started

To get started with .NET 11, install the .NET 11 SDK.

If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. You can also use Visual Studio Code and the C# Dev Kit extension with .NET 11.

[MagicAndre1981]

We are pleased to announce the release of .NET 11 Release Candidate 1. Follow the main announcement and blog announcement.
This release of .NET 10 is supported in the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders

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[jongalloway]

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