C# / .NET News

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July .NET servicing update closed 17 CVEs

On July 14, 2026, .NET 10.0.10, 9.0.18, and 8.0.29 were released. The scheduled update closed 17 CVEs across all three supported branches (10, 9, 8). Details for each vulnerability are linked to MSRC guidance, without exploit descriptions in the post itself.

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.NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach end of support on November 10, 2026

Microsoft confirmed that the .NET 8 LTS release (36 months of support from November 2023) and the .NET 9 STS release (24 months from November 2024) will both lose security patches and technical support on November 10, 2026. Migration to .NET 10 LTS, supported through November 2028, is recommended.

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Microsoft Agent Framework reaches version 1.0

A stable unified SDK for .NET and Python for orchestrating single-agent and multi-agent AI workflows (sequential, concurrent, handoff, group chat) with a stable API and an LTS commitment. Built-in connectors include Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini, and Ollama; MCP support for calling external tools is already stable, and support for the A2A 1.0 protocol is listed as coming soon.

Agent Framework uses MCP as a stable protocol for agent discovery and calling external tools MCP →The framework includes a native first-party connector to Anthropic Claude alongside OpenAI, Gemini, and Bedrock Anthropic Claude →Google Gemini is supported as one of the primary model providers in Agent Framework Google Gemini →
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Official C# SDK for MCP reaches version 1.0

The ModelContextProtocol SDK for .NET has reached v1.0 with full support for the MCP 2025-11-25 specification: Protected Resource Metadata for server authorization, icons for tools/resources/prompts, incremental scope consent based on least privilege, URL-mode elicitation for sensitive data, tool calls inside sampling requests, and experimental Tasks for long-running operations.

The official C# SDK is developed by Microsoft together with Anthropic in the modelcontextprotocol organization on GitHub, alongside the Python and TypeScript SDKs MCP →
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C# 14: extension members and property simplification

Main feature — extension members: extension of existing extension method syntax to properties, operators, and static members. Added field-backed properties via contextual keyword field, implicit conversions between array/Span/ReadOnlySpan, null-conditional assignment, partial events and constructors, custom compound-assignment operators.

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.NET 10 (LTS) released

On 11 November 2025, Microsoft released .NET 10 as an LTS release with three-year support until 10 November 2028. Key changes: JIT compiler improvements (inlining, method devirtualization), AVX10.2 support for modern Intel processors, extended post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with Windows CNG support, Aspire 13 for cloud-native development.

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