Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2

We’re excited to share what’s new in .NET 8 Preview 2. This release is a quick follow-up to the larger Preview 1 release. You’ll continue to see many more features show up with these monthly releases. .NET 6 and 7 users will want to follow this release closely. We’ve focused on making it a straightforward upgrade path.

You can download .NET 8 Preview 2 for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

• Installers and binaries
• Container images
• Release notes
• Known issues
• GitHub issue tracker

Check out what’s new in ASP.NET Core and EF Core in the Preview 2 release. Stay current with what’s new and coming in What’s New in .NET 8. It will be kept updated throughout the release.

.NET 8 has been tested with 17.6 Preview 2. We recommend that you use the preview channel builds if you want to try .NET 8 with the Visual Studio family of products. Visual Studio for Mac support for .NET 8 isn’t yet available.

Let’s take a look at some new features.

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Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2 - .NET Blog

.NET 8 Preview 2 contains a few updates/new features from Preview 1, including introspection support for function pointers, as well as some other runtime and libraries improvements.

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