.NET 9 is now available with over 1,000 performance updates, including a 15% increase in requests per second and a 93% reduction in memory usage compared to .NET 8.
The release introduces support for Arm64 SVE and Intel AVX10, along with improved performance for Arm64, loops, PGO, and bounds checks in the JIT compiler.
.NET 9 enhances AI capabilities by collaborating with Semantic Kernel for C# abstractions and improving performance in Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers and Tensor.
Other updates include optimizations in ASP.NET Core, improvements in Blazor framework, and updates in OpenAPI document generation, ASP.NET Core security, .NET MAUI, and the .NET Aspire stack.