.NET 8 released the fourth preview version.
Download address: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/8.0
Major changes:
- Improve MSBuild's terminal build output
- SDK: Simplified output path update
- Template Engine: A Safe Experience from Nuget.org Packages
- Library: Improve UTF8
- Introducing Time abstraction
- Improve native AOT
Updated the default consoletemplates and added support for AOT out of the box. Can now be invoked dotnetnewconsole--aotto create a project configured for AOT compilation.
- Supported Linux distributions
.NET 8 is built against Ubuntu 16.04 for all architectures. This is very important to define the minimum glibcversion of .NET 8. .NET 8 will not glibcstart on older distributions such as Ubuntu 14.04 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.