.NET 8.0 GA

[rbhanda]

Release Notes

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Known Issues

If there are any issues with this release we will track them here and check issues off as they're resolved. See the linked issues for details on progress and resolution details.

[MakiseKurisu]

Waiting for v8.0.0 git tag and GitHub Release. Kinda surprised that the download page was updated with binaries already, but the source repo is still untagged.

[nodakai]

dotnet-install.sh installs SDK 6.0.417, requires -v 8.0.100 to install 8.0, which isn't nice

% wget -O- https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/scripts/v1/dotnet-install.sh | bash -s -- -i /opt/dotnet --verbose

...
dotnet-install: Calling: get_normalized_architecture_for_specific_sdk_version Latest LTS arm64
dotnet-install: Calling: get_current_os_name 
dotnet-install: Calling: get_linux_platform_name 
dotnet-install: Calling: get_download_link_from_aka_ms 
dotnet-install: Retrieving primary payload URL from aka.ms for channel: 'LTS', quality: '', product: 'dotnet-sdk', os: 'linux', architecture: 'arm64'.
dotnet-install: Constructed aka.ms link: 'https://aka.ms/dotnet/LTS/dotnet-sdk-linux-arm64.tar.gz'.
dotnet-install: Calling: get_http_header https://aka.ms/dotnet/LTS/dotnet-sdk-linux-arm64.tar.gz true
dotnet-install: Calling: machine_has curl
dotnet-install: Calling: get_http_header_curl https://aka.ms/dotnet/LTS/dotnet-sdk-linux-arm64.tar.gz true
dotnet-install: Received response: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Kestrel
Location: https://aka.ms/dotnet/6.0/dotnet-sdk-linux-arm64.tar.gz
...

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Kestrel
Location: https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.417/dotnet-sdk-6.0.417-linux-arm64.tar.gz

Tried https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh as well, but I believe they are identical?

Edit

Found -c 8.0 is an acceptable workaround

[Trolldemorted]

On Ubuntu, neither the Microsoft feed nor the Ubuntu feed has dotnet 8 packages.

For last year we have a nice list of what has been completed, can we get one for this year too? We'd love to upgrade to dotnet 8 asap, but we can't proceed as of now.

[rhythmnewt]

I followed steps from dotnet-7 release here to add the microsoft package. #7939 (comment)

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/22.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Had to uninstall current dotnet-host installation on the linux box, to remove host, sdk, runtime, etc.
Then was able to finally install new dotnet-host and dotnet-sdk-8.0.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-host
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0

[Trolldemorted]

The documentation is getting worse:

• 7.0 disappeared for ubuntu 22.04 (but only in the docs, luckily the package is still there)
• 8.0 appeared for ubuntu 23.04 (but only in the docs, unluckily the package is not yet there)

[Trolldemorted]

@rbhanda could you please look into this?

• the documentation says dotnet-sdk-7.0 is not available on ubuntu:22.04 but it is
• the documentation says dotnet-sdk-8.0 is available on ubuntu:23.04 but it is not
• the latest LTS dotnet is not available in the latest LTS Ubuntu (neither in the documentation nor in reality)

[mairaw]

Tagging @adegeo to look at the doc issues reported

[adegeo]

@Trolldemorted Can you tell me which doc exactly is having an issue and where in that doc? I'm not seeing what you're reporting.

[Trolldemorted]

The documentation was updated in dotnet/docs@ea3df99#diff-6592b7e6623c9ccf0f88d1bb413c25ee426fe0c6de36b162058c774157b46764L109 - 8.0 was removed from the Ubuntu 23.04 documentation.

7.0 is still available on Ubuntu 22.04 though (at least I assume it is a package maintained by you), despite your documentation saying otherwise, the incorrect line would be here: https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/42ca7f8c3b303ed762de132af76be38b003b5fde/docs/core/install/linux-ubuntu.md?plain=1#L113

[Salgat]

I noticed .NET 8 is not available in the alpine package manager yet, even though the docs mistakenly reference it. I hit this issue when trying to update our alpine AMIs.

.NET 7 vs .NET 8

[mairaw]

I noticed .NET 8 is not available in the alpine package manager yet, even though the docs mistakenly reference it. I hit this issue when trying to update our alpine AMIs.

.NET 7 vs .NET 8

@leecow @adegeo can you check this?

[adegeo]

Fixing in docs... dotnet/docs#39017

[adegeo]

@Trolldemorted Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I'm opening a PR to correct the table in regards to 22.04. However, 23.04 doesn't have .NET 8 listed in the package manager. Canonical owns the packages in the actual Ubuntu feeds and they've not yet published it. I don't think they're going to since support for 23.04 ends in about 20 days.

dotnet/docs#39100