- 5/18/2026
- 2 minute read
Zstandard compression in .NET 11
.NET has had DeflateStream, GZipStream, ZLibStream, and BrotliStream for a while now. In .NET 11, a new one joins the party: ZstandardStream. And now we get to say "Zstd" in .NET.
All posts with Tag .NET 11
- 5/10/2026
- 3 minute read
BackgroundService exceptions now propagate in .NET 11
Here's a bug that lived in .NET for over four years As in: Reported over 4 years ago. If your BackgroundService threw an exception after its first await, your host would catch it, log a critical message, and then exit cleanly with exit code 0.
So everyone would think it terminated successfully. That got fixed!
- 4/26/2026
- 2 minute read
ConfigurationIgnoreAttribute in .NET 11
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration has had ConfigurationKeyNameAttribute since .NET 6 which it lets you rename the key a property maps to. But there was never an official way to say "don't bind this property at all." That gap is finally closed in .NET 11 with ConfigurationIgnoreAttribute.
- 3/6/2026
- 2 minute read
FullJoin in .NET 11 - potentially
We have Join. We have LeftJoin. We have RightJoin. But somehow we still don't have a proper full outer join in LINQ. That might come soon!
- 2/15/2026
- 5 minute read
New runtime async is hitting .NET 11 - Part 1
Some time back I wrote about "async2 - The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes" basically moving the async state machine into the runtime. Now with .NET 11 we are seeing the fruits of that labor.
- 12/2/2025
- 1 minute read
Mime Type Helper in .NET 11
New helper will be available with .NET 11: MediaTypeMap.GetMediaType and MediaTypeMap.GetExtension which makes the web-development a bit easier!