With a month to go before the final release, Microsoft has delivered the second and final release candidate for .NET 9.NET team wrote in the announcement post[1], "As we prepare for the November General Availability (GA) release of .NET 9, we're putting the finishing touches on performance, stability, and any other optimizations that will make it the best version of . NET 9 Release Candidate 2 is included in the go-live license so you can get support when using it in your production applications. We encourage developers to try out this latest release today and provide feedback to the team on anything you find in development so that we can incorporate any other enhancements into the final release, which the team has essentially beenpolish。
There's not much to say about RC2: no new features have been added in this version.You can download .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 from the .[2].Microsoft recommends that users developing on Windows combine it with theLatest Visual Studio 2022 Preview[3] Pairing. Note that it is now also possible to install .NET 9 directly from Visual Studio 2022 17.2 Preview 3 or later.
In the case of "no new features added," the release notes for the various attributes show several items of interest highlighted by Microsoft, including:
- .NET MAUI[4]：Xcode 16 and the latest platform SDK versions - Compatibility with Xcode 16 is now available, including SDK support for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, Apple tvOS 18, and macOS Sequoia 15, which is required to build with this version.
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Core[5]: Updated to the latest versions of Bootstrap, jQuery, and jQuery validation -- Core project templates and libraries have been updated to use the latest versions of Bootstrap, jQuery, and jQuery validation, specifically:
- Bootstrap program 5.3.3
- jQuery version 3.7.1
- jQuery Validation 1.21.0
SDK[6] and Runtime[7] and LibrariesOther minor tweaks and fixes are listed in the release notes for [8]. Developers can find more information on Microsoft's "What's New in .NET 9[9] "View in documentLaunching next monthA summary of all the new features in [10], which was updated yesterday.
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- [NET team wrote in the announcement post./dotnet/dotnet-9-rc-2/
- [2] You can download .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 from the ./en-us/download/dotnet/9.0
- [3] Visual Studio 2022 Preview./vs/preview/
- [4].NET MAUI:/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/preview/rc2/
- [5] Core: /dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/preview/rc2/
- [6]SDK:/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/preview/rc2/
- [7]Runtime:/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/preview/rc2/
- [8]Libraries: /dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/preview/rc2/
- [9] New features in .NET 9./en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-9/overview
- [10] launching dotnetconf next month./