.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is our second and final release candidate and it comes with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production applications ahead of general availability. This release of .NET 10 is supported in the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders release alongside Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit. Help us validate the final bits before GA.
This release is focused on quality and stabilization.
.NET MAUI
Microphone permission
SafeAreaEdges
XAML Source Generation improvements
Android API 36.1
Xcode 26 bindings
Full Release Notes
We’re grateful to the Uno Platform team for their deep collaboration with the .NET MAUI team in preparation for .NET 10 RC2. Their contributions helped ensure .NET for Android is aligned with Google’s latest platform updates, enabling developers to take advantage of Android 16 and API 36.1 right away. This kind of partnership strengthens the .NET ecosystem and reflects our shared commitment to delivering high-quality, cross-platform developer experiences. We’re excited about what’s ahead—including ongoing and future collaboration across .NET MAUI, SkiaSharp, and .NET runtime—and invite you to read more about Uno Platform’s contributions on their blog.
Entity Framework Core
Numerous fixes for 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
SDK
Use .NET MSBuild Tasks with .NET Framework MSBuild
Full Release Notes
This release candidate is focused on quality improvements and contains no notable feature additions for the following feature areas:
Libraries release notes
Runtime release notes
C# release notes
F# release notes
Visual Basic release notes
ASP.NET Core & Blazor release notes
Windows Forms release notes
WPF release notes
Container Images release notes
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.
You can find .NET 10 RC 2 Installer & Binaries on GitHub.
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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We want your feedback, so head over to the .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 GitHub Discussion to discuss features and give feedback for this release.
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