Deploy now: .NET 9.0 Release Candidate 2 with go-live license
Even though the final version of .NET 9.0 will not be released until November, developers can still use the current preview version productively.
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- Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg
Since yesterday, Microsoft has been delivering the latest preview version of .NET 9.0 under the title "Release Candidate 2" with a "Go-Live" license. This allows Microsoft to use it in production systems and offers official product support via its support contracts.
In the last .NET versions, this "Go-Live" license was already available from Release Candidate 1. For .NET 9.0, however, Release Candidate 1 was released on 13 September without this release.
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.NET 9.0 Release Candidate 2 can be installed as part of Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.12 Preview 3, which was also released yesterday, or independently with the setup package from the website.
Some quality improvements
If you look at the release notes for Release Candidate 2, you will find references to quality improvements, performance optimization and minor version updates, but no new features compared to Release Candidate 1.
.NET MAUI now requires XCode version 16 on macOS Sonoma 14.5 or higher to translate applications for Apple operating systems.
In ASP.NET Core 9.0 Release Candidate 2, Microsoft has updated its project template for web projects to the latest versions of Bootstrap (5.3.3) as well as jQuery (3.7.1) and jQuery Validation (1.21.0).
Online conference on .NET 9.0
Microsoft plans to release .NET 9.0 on November 12, 2024. iX and dpunkt.verlag will present this stable version together with www.IT-Visions.de at the online event betterCode() .NET 9.0 one week later, on November 19, 2024, for which the early bird discount is still available until October 22.
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