Today we are pleased to provide you with the first look of .NET 6 and tell you what to expect from the new release. We have defined the general form of the version over the last several months, including a large set of new experiences and capabilities. The core of .NET 6 is to deliver the last portions of the .NET unification plan that began with .NET 5. This release will also include significant improvements in all parts of .NET, including cloud, desktop, and mobile applications. It will take several overviews to make the biggest reach of the version fully available in .NET 6 builds.
See ASP.NET Core and EF Core publications for details of what is new for web and data access scenarios.
.NET 6 has been tested with Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 4 as well as Visual Studio for Mac 8.9. We recommend you use these builds if you want to try. NET 6.
Other sections are divided into two parts: an initial look into what we deliver for .NET 6 in general (what you will receive in November), and what is new in Preview in particular.