.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is now available. 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 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.
Libraries
Cryptography: ML-DSA External Mu
Cryptography: Post Quantum Cryptography “API Complete”
UTF-8 support for hex-string conversion
Tensor, TensorSpan, and ReadOnlyTensorSpan
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Runtime
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new Runtime features.
SDK
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new SDK features.
C#
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new C# features.
F#
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new F# features.
Visual Basic
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new Visual Basic features.
ASP.NET Core & Blazor
Persistent component state support for enhanced navigation
New ASP.NET Core Identity metrics
Validation improvements for Minimal APIs and Blazor
OpenAPI schema generation improvements
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.NET MAUI
Diagnostics and metrics tracking
HybridWebView events
RefreshView IsRefreshEnabled property
.NET for Android: CoreCLR runtime experimental support
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Windows Forms
Dark Mode Now Fully Integrated
Clarification on ControlStyles ApplyThemingImplicitlyUsage
Several additional improvements to renderer, async, and state management
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new WPF features.
Entity Framework Core
SQL Server vector search
SQL Server JSON type support
Cosmos full-text and hybrid search
Complex types
Padding for parameterized collections
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Container Images
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements 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.
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.NET 10 Discussions
The team has been making release announcements alongside full release notes on the dotnet/core GitHub Discussions and has seen great engagement and feedback from the community.
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
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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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We want your feedback, so head over to the .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 GitHub Discussion to discuss features and give feedback for this release.
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