.NET 9 Preview 3

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Chime in on our .NET 9 Preview 3 Discussions on GitHub

We are pleased to announce the release of .NET 9 Preview 3.

Here's a summary of what's new in .NET Libraries, Runtime, & SDK in this preview release:

• TimeSpan.From overloads
• Added PersistableAssemblyBuilder type in System.Reflection.Emit
• Faster exception handling
• Inlining Improvements: Shared Generics with Runtime Lookups
• Terminal Logger

For details on these new features and more see the

• .NET Libraries Release Notes
• .NET Runtime Release Notes
• .NET SDK Release Notes

You can find detailed release notes for additional features in .NET 9 Preview 3 below:

• .NET Data & EF Core
• .NET MAUI
• ASP.NET Core

Get started

To get started with .NET 9, install the .NET 9 SDK.

If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview, or get started with Visual Studio Code and the C# Dev Kit extension.

You can find .NET 9 Preview 3 Installer & Binaries on GitHub.

Team Announcements & Discussions

Discuss this release with the product teams on GitHub through the announcements for this release.

• .NET MAUI
• ASP.NET Core
• Libraries & Runtime
• Containers
• Source-build

Stay up-to-date with .NET 9

You can stay up-to-date with all the features of .NET 9 with:

• What's new in .NET 9
• What's new in ASP.NET Core
• What's new in .NET MAUI
• What's new in EF Core
• Breaking Changes in .NET 9
• .NET 9 Releases

For .NET 9 previews we are utilizing GitHub Discussions to make announcements. For more information read our discussion.

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You can find a full list of release notes and discussions for all preview releases in the Release Index thread.