2026-04-16 dotnet-mauidotnet-11maps Pin Clustering Lands in .NET MAUI 11 Maps .NET MAUI 11 Preview 3 adds built-in pin clustering to the Map control on Android and iOS, with ClusteringIdentifier groups and a ClusterClicked event.
2026-04-16 ef-coredotnet-11performance EF Core 11 Adds GetEntriesForState to Skip DetectChanges EF Core 11 Preview 3 introduces ChangeTracker.GetEntriesForState, a state-filtered enumerator that avoids an extra DetectChanges pass in hot paths like SaveChanges interceptors and audit hooks.
2026-04-16 dotnet-mauidotnet-11xaml .NET MAUI 11 Ships a Built-in LongPressGestureRecognizer .NET MAUI 11 Preview 3 adds LongPressGestureRecognizer as a first-party gesture, with duration, movement threshold, state events, and command binding, replacing the common Community Toolkit behavior.
2026-04-14 efcoreefcore-11cosmos-db EF Core 11 turns on Cosmos DB transactional batches by default EF Core 11 groups Cosmos DB writes into transactional batches per container and partition on every SaveChanges, giving best-effort atomicity and fewer roundtrips without any code changes.
2026-04-13 blazoraspnet-coredotnet-11 Blazor SSR Finally Gets TempData in .NET 11 ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 2 brings TempData to Blazor static server-side rendering, enabling flash messages and Post-Redirect-Get flows without workarounds.
2026-04-13 csharp-15dotnet-11collection-expressions C# 15 Collection Expression Arguments: Pass Constructors Inline with with(...) C# 15 adds the with(...) element to collection expressions, letting you pass capacity, comparers, and other constructor arguments directly in the initializer.
2026-04-13 dotnet-11csharpperformance .NET 11 Adds Native Zstandard Compression to System.IO.Compression .NET 11 Preview 1 ships ZstandardStream, ZstandardEncoder, and ZstandardDecoder in System.IO.Compression, giving you fast, inbox zstd support with no third-party packages.
2026-04-13 dotnet-11ef-corecsharp EF Core 11 Lets You Create and Apply a Migration in One Command The dotnet ef database update command now accepts --add to scaffold and apply a migration in a single step. Here is how it works, why it matters for containers and .NET Aspire, and what to watch for.
2026-04-13 dotnet-11ef-coresql-server EF Core 11 Adds Native SQL Server Vector Search with DiskANN Indexes EF Core 11 Preview 2 supports SQL Server 2025 VECTOR_SEARCH() and DiskANN vector indexes directly from LINQ. Here is how to set up the index, run approximate queries, and what changes from the EF Core 10 VectorDistance approach.
2026-04-12 aspnet-coredotnet-11opentelemetry ASP.NET Core 11 Ships Native OpenTelemetry Tracing: Drop the Extra NuGet Package ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 2 adds OpenTelemetry semantic attributes directly to HTTP server activity, removing the need for OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore.