.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 has been released as the final pre-release before its general availability on November 11, 2025. This long-term support (LTS) release prioritizes stability and quality enhancements, ensuring readiness for production deployment with go-live support.
Key updates in this release include significant improvements to .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI), such as microphone permission support for Windows and SafeAreaEdges support for edge-to-edge displays on Android devices. The update also brings enhanced XAML source generation, Android API 36.1 bindings, and Xcode 26 bindings for Apple platforms.
The Entity Framework Core has seen improvements, notably in fixing complex JSON mapping issues and enhancing reliability in migration handling. Additionally, a major enhancement to MSBuild now allows .NET-based tasks to run directly within Visual Studio, streamlining the development process.
Previous previews leading up to this release had introduced features such as JIT improvements for struct argument handling and C# 14’s compound assignment operators. The overall release sees quality improvements across the runtime, SDK, libraries, <a href="http://ASP.NET" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">ASP.NET</a> Core, Blazor, Windows Forms, and WPF.
This update is supported in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders and Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit, providing developers with a robust framework to build and deploy applications effectively.

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.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 is now available as the final pre-release before general availability on November 11, 2025. This LTS version focuses on stability and production readiness, featuring MAUI improvements (microphone permissions, SafeAreaEdges support), Entity Framework Core enhancements for JSON mapping and migrations, and MSBuild updates enabling .NET tasks to run directly in Visual Studio. The release includes JIT optimizations, C# 14 compound assignment operators, and quality improvements across runtime, SDK, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and desktop frameworks.

.NET 10 Release Candidate 2: Focus on Stability and Quality Ahead of General Availability