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Releases
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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 now available! This preview release includes improvements to the Dark Theme, added new JavaScript and TypeScript project types, and because of course they did, easier one click publishing to Azure DevOps.
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Announcing .NET 6 Preview 7. Thereās new .NET SDK templates that use the latest C# features and now thereās literally a one line console application template. Everyone wants to be like Perl.
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.NET 5.0.9 has been released. There are several CVEs resolved in this release, including CVE-2021-34485, an information disclosure vulnerability related to crash dumps, CVE-2021-26423, a Denial of Service Vulnerability, and CVE-2021-34532 which is an ASP.ENT Core Information Disclosure Vulnerability, this time areound logging JWT tokens that are unparsable.
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Github Codespaces has been released and you can access it from any repository by pressing the period key. Yes, launch a Visual Studio Code instance, in your browser, already targetting a repository with a single keypress. Thatās pretty remarkable and allows me to forgive the many sins JavaScript committed.
News and Notes
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Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server. Opting instead for the āYou can have frequent updates if you want to use Azureā which already fills this weekās bingo for requiring Azure needlessly because itās on someoneās KPI. Joking aside, this is a dive into marrying frequent Windows Server updates with using Azure HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure), and it appears that Windows Container updates will now be married to that same infrastructure. Just as well, I suppose since outside of Azure, Windows containers are as rare as an honest politician.
and lastly, and because Iām obligated to report it but not because I care: