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.NET 10 Release Candidate 2
This issue is a locked mirror of https://github.com/dotnet/core/discussions/10122. See that thread for discussion.
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is our second and final release candidate which comes with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production applications. This release of .NET 10 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.
🛠️ SDK
📱 .NET MAUI
- Microphone permission
- SafeAreaEdges
- XAML Source Generation
- Android API 36.1
- Xcode 26
- Full Release Notes
🎁 Entity Framework Core
- Numerous fixes for the new EF complex JSON support
- Stop spanning all migrations with a single transaction
- Use ExecutionStrategy for query execution (for retrying)
- Analyzer warnings for string concatenation in raw SQL APIs
- Full Release Notes
📚Libraries
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new Libraries features.
⏱️Runtime
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new Runtime features.
C#
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new C# features.
F#
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new F# features.
Visual Basic
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new Visual Basic features.
🌐 ASP.NET Core & Blazor
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new ASP.NET Core features.
🖥️ Windows Forms
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new Windows Forms features.
🖥️ Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new WPF features.
📦 Container Images
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new container features.
🚀 Get started
To get started with .NET 10, install the .NET 10 SDK.
If you're on Windows, we recommend installing the latest version of Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. Read more about this new release on the Visual Studio blog and release notes.
You can also use Visual Studio Code and the C# Dev Kit extension with .NET 10.
🔔 Stay up-to-date with .NET 10
You can stay up-to-date with all the features of .NET 10 with:
- What's new in .NET 10
- What's new in C# 14
- What's new in .NET MAUI
- What's new in ASP.NET Core
- What's new in Entity Framework Core
- What's new in Windows Forms
- What's new in WPF
- Breaking Changes in .NET 10
- .NET 10 Releases
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