Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2
.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is our second release candidate, which comes with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production applications. This release of .NET 11 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.
Download .NET 11 RC2
This release contains the following highlights and improvements.
Libraries
Read CBOR incrementally
Experimental composite ML-KEM and HPKE APIs
Format DataAnnotations messages with…
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