.NET Team presents a summary of features and improvements in .NET 10 Preview 7, highlighting updates across the ecosystem and providing links to detailed resources. Authors from the .NET Team offer guidance on how developers can get started with this release.

.NET 10 Preview 7 Released: Key Updates for Libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and MAUI

The .NET Team has announced the seventh preview of .NET 10, delivering a broad set of improvements across the .NET ecosystem. This release focuses on enhancements to the .NET runtime, SDK, core libraries, and developer tools, together with major updates in frameworks like ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI.

Download and Get Started

Download .NET 10 Preview 7
Recommended: Use the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview (with GitHub Copilot agent mode & MCP server support), or Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit

What’s New in .NET 10 Preview 7?

Libraries

Launch Windows processes in new process group
AES KeyWrap with Padding (IETF RFC 5649)
ML-DSA & Composite ML-DSA support
PipeReader support for JSON serializer
WebSocketStream improvements
TLS 1.3 for macOS (client)
Detailed library release notes

Runtime, SDK, and Tooling

Support for any RuntimeIdentifier with platform-specific .NET Tools
Various performance and compatibility updates
See runtime and SDK release notes for full details

C#, F#, and Visual Basic

No new feature updates in this preview
C#, F#, Visual Basic release notes available

ASP.NET Core & Blazor

Configurable suppression of exception handler diagnostics
Avoid cookie login redirects on API endpoints
Passkey authentication improvements
Support for .localhost TLD in development
PipeReader support in System.Text.Json
Enhanced validation for classes and records
Blazor and OpenAPI.NET upgrades
ASP.NET Core release notes

.NET MAUI

XAML Source Generator
MediaPicker EXIF support
SafeArea and Secondary Toolbar improvements
New Control APIs, deprecated API removals
MAUI release notes maui GitHub releases

Entity Framework Core

Improved translation for parameterized collections
Miscellaneous bug fixes & improvements
EF Core release notes

Windows UI Frameworks

Windows Forms: Dark mode rendering improvements (ComboBox, RichTextBox, PropertyGrid)
WPF: Bug fixes and Fluent Theme improvements
WinForms release notes, WPF release notes

Containers

dnx added to PATH in SDK images
Container release notes

Stay Up-to-Date

Explore what’s new in C# 14, MAUI, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Windows Forms, and WPF
Review the full .NET 10 release notes and breaking changes

Community Involvement

Join community standups to connect with the team
Engage on .NET Discussions
Give feedback on Preview 7

For further details and deep dive updates, see the official .NET Blog post.

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