.NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is now available. This is our first of two release candidates which come with a go-live support license so you can confidently use this release for your production applications. This release of .NET 10 is supported in the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders release alongside Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit. Check out the full release notes below and get started today.Download .NET 10 RC1This release contains the following highlights and improvements.LibrariesCryptography: ML-DSA External MuCryptography: Post Quantum Cryptography “API Complete”UTF-8 support for hex-string conversionTensor, TensorSpan, and ReadOnlyTensorSpanFull Release NotesRuntimeThis release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new Runtime features. SDKThis release candidate is focused on quality improvements and does not contain new SDK features.C#This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new C# features.F#This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new F# features.Visual BasicThis release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new Visual Basic features. ASP.NET Core & BlazorPersistent component state support for enhanced navigationNew ASP.NET Core Identity metricsValidation improvements for Minimal APIs and BlazorOpenAPI schema generation improvementsFull Release Notes .NET MAUIDiagnostics and metrics trackingHybridWebView eventsRefreshView IsRefreshEnabled property.NET for Android: CoreCLR runtime experimental supportFull Release Notes Windows FormsDark Mode Now Fully IntegratedClarification on ControlStyles ApplyThemingImplicitlyUsageSeveral additional improvements to renderer, async, and state managementFull Release Notes Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)This release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new WPF features. Entity Framework CoreSQL Server vector searchSQL Server JSON type supportCosmos full-text and hybrid searchComplex typesPadding for parameterized collectionsFull Release Notes Container ImagesThis release candidate is focused on quality improvements does not contain new container features. Get startedTo get started with .NET 10, install the .NET 10 SDK.If you’re on Windows, we recommend installing the latest version of Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. Read more about this new release on the Visual Studio blog and release notes.You can also use Visual Studio Code and the C# Dev Kit extension with .NET 10. Join a .NET community standupJoin us each week and engage with the developers and product managers behind .NET for community standups.Join us today for our .NET Unboxed series where the team will show off their favorite features from .NET 10! .NET 10 DiscussionsThe team has been making release announcements alongside full release notes on the dotnet/core GitHub Discussions and has seen great engagement and feedback from the community. Stay up-to-date with .NET 10You can stay up-to-date with all the features of .NET 10 with:What’s new in .NET 10What’s new in C# 14What’s new in .NET MAUIWhat’s new in ASP.NET CoreWhat’s new in Entity Framework CoreWhat’s new in Windows FormsWhat’s new in WPFBreaking Changes in .NET 10.NET 10 ReleasesAdditionally, be sure to subscribe to the GitHub Discussions RSS news feed for all release announcements.We want your feedback, so head over to the .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 GitHub Discussion to discuss features and give feedback for this release.The post Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 appeared first on .NET Blog.