.NET 8.0 Release Candidate 1 has been released to the public just now! It’s now available to all of the users running supported operating systems and Visual Studio Preview users!
To get started using this release candidate of the long-term-release .NET 8.0, go to the link below:
Let’s go through a very simple explanation about the hit changes that occurred in this release!
System.Text.Json Improvements
Work was put on System.Text.Json by the .NET contributors in the recent iterations of .NET 8.0 releases, especially from the seventh preview to the first release candidate. It includes the following changes:
- System.Net.Http.Json extensions for IAsyncEnumerable
- JsonContent.Create overloads accepting JsonTypeInfo
- JsonNode.ParseAsync APIs
There are many more changes linked to you in the .NET Blog article!
AndroidStripILAfterAOT mode on Android
For the Ahead of Time (AoT) builds on Android, this new feature will strip unneeded Intermediate Language (IL) code from the resulting Android binaries, resulting in a significant performance improvements thanks to the native AOT build support.
This feature is enabled on your Android projects by setting a project property on your .csproj file, called AndroidStripILAfterAOT, to true. The blog article will go to the detail of how this feature decreases your Android APK file with this feature enabled, as well as the instructions on how to enable it.
Try it out!
What are you waiting for? Get this .NET 8.0 RC1 release right away and send feedback to the .NET Team to let them know of new issues being surfaced!
The download links for this release are found in the beginning of this article. Enjoy your day!
Aptivi 
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