Today we released .NET 7 Preview 4. The fourth preview of .NET 7 includes enhancements to observability in the .NET implementation of OpenTelemetry, t

Announcing .NET 7 Preview 4

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2022-05-13 00:00:09

Today we released .NET 7 Preview 4. The fourth preview of .NET 7 includes enhancements to observability in the .NET implementation of OpenTelemetry, the addition of properties to track microseconds and nanoseconds in date and time structures, new metrics for caching extensions, performance-boosting “on stack replacement,” APIs to work with .tar archives, and additional features as part of an ongoing effort to improve the performance of and add features to regular expressions in .NET 7. The preview 4 releases for ASP.NET Core and EF7 are also available.

.NET 7 Preview 4 has been tested with Visual Studio 17.3 Preview 1. We recommend you use the preview channel builds if you want to try .NET 7 with Visual Studio family products. Visual Studio for Mac support for .NET 7 previews isn’t available yet but is coming soon. Now, let’s get into some of the latest updates in this release.

We have finished annotating the Microsoft.Extensions.* libraries for nullability. In .NET 7 Preview 4, all Microsoft.Extensions.* libraries have been fully annotated for nullability.