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.NET 8.0.0 Preview 4 - May 16, 2023

The .NET 8.0.0 Preview 4 and .NET SDK 8.0.100-preview.4.23260.5 releases are available for download. The latest 8.0 release is always listed at .NET 8.0 Releases.

What’s new in .NET 8 Preview 4

.NET 8 is the next major release of .NET following .NET 8.0. You can see some of the new features available with .NET 8 Preview 4 at dotnet/core #8234.

See the .NET and ASP.NET Core blogs for additional details. Here is list of some of the additions and updates we’re excited to bring in Preview 4.

EntityFramework Core: bugs features
.NET SDK bugs

Downloads

	SDK Installer¹	SDK Binaries¹	Runtime Installer	Runtime Binaries	ASP.NET Core Runtime	Windows Desktop Runtime
Windows	x86 \| x64 \| Arm64	x86 \| x64 \| Arm64	x86 \| x64 \| Arm64	x86 \| x64 \| Arm64	x86 \| x64 \| Hosting Bundle²	x86 \| x64 \| Arm64
macOS	x64 \| ARM64	x64 \| ARM64	x64 \| ARM64	x64 \| ARM64	x64 \| ARM64	-	¹
Linux	Snap and Package Manager	x64 \| Arm \| Arm64 \| Arm32 Alpine \| x64 Alpine	Packages (x64)	x64 \| Arm \| Arm64 \| Arm32 Alpine \| Arm64 Alpine \| x64 Alpine	x64¹ \| Arm¹ \| Arm64¹ \| x64 Alpine	-	¹
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Includes the .NET Runtime and ASP.NET Core Runtime
For hosting stand-alone apps on Windows Servers. Includes the ASP.NET Core Module for IIS and can be installed separately on servers without installing .NET Runtime.

The .NET SDK includes a matching updated .NET Runtime. Downloading the Runtime or ASP.NET Core packages is not needed when installing the SDK.

You can check your .NET SDK version by running the following command. The example version shown is for this release.

$ dotnet --version
8.0.100-preview.4.23260.5

.NET Multi-Platform App UI (MAUI) Workload Downloads

After installing the .NET SDK, you can install .NET MAUI using the dotnet workload install command:

 $ dotnet workload install maui

The following workloads are also available to install individually:

 $ dotnet workload install android
 $ dotnet workload install ios
 $ dotnet workload install maccatalyst
 $ dotnet workload install macos
 $ dotnet workload install tvos

Docker Images

The .NET Docker images have been updated for this release. The .NET Docker samples show various ways to use .NET and Docker together. You can use the following command to try running the latest .NET 8.0 release in containers:

docker run --rm mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/samples

The following repos have been updated.

dotnet/sdk: .NET SDK
dotnet/aspnet: ASP.NET Core Runtime
dotnet/runtime: .NET Runtime
dotnet/runtime-deps: .NET Runtime Dependencies
dotnet/samples: .NET Samples

Visual Studio Compatibility

You need Visual Studio 17.7 latest preview to use .NET 8.0 on Windows. On macOS, you need the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac. The C# extension for Visual Studio Code supports .NET 8.0 and C# 11.

Feedback

Your feedback is important and appreciated. We’ve created an issue at dotnet/core #8458 for your questions and comments.

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