.NET 11 Preview 4 is now available with improvements across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, and Entity Framework Core. Key highlights include a major Process API expansion, span-based compression APIs, System.Text.Json improvements, runtime libraries compiled with runtime-async, JIT optimizations, hardware intrinsics updates, an MCP Server template shipping with the .NET SDK, approximate vector search for SQL Server 2025 in EF Core, JSON mapping fully integrated into the relational model, and OpenTelemetry replacing Application Insights for CLI telemetry. Developers can get started by installing the .NET 11 SDK or using Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

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