The latest release of .NET 8 Preview 4 brings significant improvements to ASP.NET Core. Notable enhancements include Blazor’s streaming rendering and form handling, expanded support for form binding in minimal APIs, Native AOT compilation for improved performance, enhanced authentication and authorization with Identity API endpoints, and the addition of metrics for application monitoring.
The first noteworthy area of improvement is reserved for Blazor, with the latest preview release of .NET 8, a significant enhancement has been made to Blazor’s server-side rendering (SSR) capabilities. With the introduction of streaming rendering, developers can now stream content updates on the response stream when using SSR with Blazor.