.NET 9

We are pleased to announce the general availability of .NET 9.

Read about the final release on the [.NET Blog announcement](https://aka.ms/dotnet9).

You can find a detailed overview of new features across .NET 9 in our documentation:

- [What's new in .NET 9](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-9/overview): [Runtime](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-9/runtime), [Libraries](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-9/libraries), and [SDK](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-9/sdk)
- [What's new in C# 13](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-13)
- [What's new in F# 9](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fsharp-9)
- [What's new in ASP.NET Core](https://learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/release-notes/aspnetcore-9.0)
- [What's new in .NET Aspire](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/whats-new/)
- [What's new in .NET MAUI](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/whats-new/dotnet-9)
- [What's new in EF Core](https://learn.microsoft.com/ef/core/what-is-new/ef-core-9.0/whatsnew)
- [What's new in WPF](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/desktop/wpf/whats-new/net90)
- [What's new in Windows Forms](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/desktop/winforms/whats-new/net90)

## Get started

To get started with .NET 9, [install the .NET 9 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/9.0).

If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest [Visual Studio 2022](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/). .NET 9 is now can be installed directly through the Visual Studio installer starting with Visual Studio 2022 17.12.

You can also use Visual Studio Code and the [C# Dev Kit](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotnettools.csdevkit) extension with .NET 9.

You can find [.NET 9 Installer & Binaries](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/9.0.0.md) on GitHub.

## Release Notes

Release notes are available for changes between .NET 9 RC2 and this release:

* [Libraries](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/libraries.md)
* [Runtime](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/runtime.md)
* [SDK](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/sdk.md)
* [.NET MAUI](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/dotnetmaui.md)
* [ASP.NET Core](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/aspnetcore.md)
* [C#](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/csharp.md)
* [EF Core and Data](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/efcoreanddata.md)
* [F#](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/fsharp.md)
* [WinForms](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/winforms.md)
* [WPF](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/wpf.md)

Celebrate the release of .NET 9 at [.NET Conf 2024](https://dotnetconf.net) - November 12th -14th.