.NET 11 preview 1 release notes

[GerardSmit]

URL(s)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-preview-1/

Description

It seems like with every .NET release the announcements are getting changed, and this year is no difference 😅

Announcement

I had to see the new .NET 11 preview release on Discord, because there was no post in https://github.com/dotnet/announcements
For all the .NET 10 releases, we had an announcement (dotnet/announcements#344); does this mean we won't get these anymore with .NET 11?

Release notes itself

The release notes are AI generated, an you can tell without even looking at the PR.
I can see in the PR (#10221) that there were some comments, but for the runtime the comments came too late I think (#10221 (review)).

.NET 10 had meaningful changes, and showed examples:
https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/10.0/preview/preview1/runtime.md

.NET 11 combines all the PR's (e.g. with CoreCLR and WebAssembly) without any information. "CoreCLR is now a target in the WebAssembly SDK and browser-hosted CoreCLR"; what does this mean in preview 1? Is it already done? How can I try this out? Do I need to open all these PR links to figure out how it works?

At this point it's easier to look at Epic issues then reading the release notes, because this gives an insight what works and what still needs to be done...:

• Runtime async: .NET Runtime-Async Feature runtime#109632
• CoreCLR WebAssembly: .NET WebAssembly on CoreCLR interpreter runtime#121511

Comments

With .NET 10 releases we could comment in GitHub discussions: #9763
With .NET 11 we can only comment in the devblogs.microsoft.com? The problem is that I don't want to sign in with my Microsoft account to place a comment, and there is no way to sign in with GitHub. Hence why I made this issue.

[jamesmontemagno]

Thanks for the feedback. I have created the discussion: #10260

Simply forgot the /announcements, wont forget in the future. dotnet/announcements#382

[jamesmontemagno]

Will give feedback to the team on the release notes themselves. Appreciate the feedback.

[agocke]

Note: the runtime async section does give extra info and I wrote it the old fashioned way (hence the typo 🙃). In particular the environment variable requirement for .net 10 is no longer necessary for 11

[GerardSmit]

I have created the discussion: #10260

Thanks! Feel free to close this issue to prevent confusion if this issue should be used, or the discussion. 😊

Simply forgot the /announcements, wont forget in the future.

Ah! I thought maybe it changed with this release. Thanks, I'm always checking GitHub notifications and it makes my day a little better when I see a new .NET release 😊

Note: the runtime async section does give extra info and I wrote it the old fashioned way (hence the typo 🙃). In particular the environment variable requirement for .net 10 is no longer necessary for 11

Runtime async was one of the easiest to read and I'm happy it's enabled by default now! The only part I was missing is that the libraries aren't compiled with Runtime Async yet (I think), so better performance will come in later previews?

[agocke]

The only part I was missing is that the libraries aren't compiled with Runtime Async yet (I think), so better performance will come in later previews?

Yup, that's right, good callout

[jkotas]

I am sorry about the AI slop