A few CVEs patched, a book written on Regex. It’s an eventful week, let’s dive in.
.NET 7.0.0 Preview 4 is out. Looks like bug fixes here, nothing major. 🐛
.NET 6.0.5 has been released which fixes three CVEs (all denial of service) and quite a few bugfixes. 🚨
.NET 5.0.17 has been released and it fixes those same three CVEs. 🚨
.NET Core 3.1.25 has been released and you guessed it, it fixes those same three CVEs. 🚨
That’s it on the release side, here’s what else happened Last Week in .NET:
Khalid Abuhakmeh shares a tip on how to use the Convert class to convert a number into its binary representation. After working in embedded C this is one of those things that I’ll never take for granted again. 🏗
- Build an insecure OS.
- Charge people to make it more secure.
- Profit.
Even if this is all above board, it sure looks twisted. 🟡
Speaking of security vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-1388 is an F5 (network equipment) vulnerability, particularly against their REST APIs. Yes, some network devices support REST API access to the control plane. It’s a wild world that I used to work in, and not without its share of problems. 🚨
WSL now supports USB devices. Ouch. Microsoft makes a better linux than linux makes. 👉👈
Microsoft has a knowledgebase of styles of architecture for Azure. This is nice. More, please. 😊
Shiny.NET 2.5.1 is out. What’s Shiny.NET you ask? I really have no idea. The twitter account description says,
“Make all your apps shiny with http://Shiny.NET -github.com/shinyorg/ – please don’t @ for support – go to github!”,
and the Github description says,
“We make shiny nuget packages for Xamarin, Windows, & All Things .NET”. Again, no idea.
If I go into the ‘shiny’ repository, it says,
“Shiny is a cross platform framework designed for Xamarin & UWP to make working with device services and background processes easy, testable, and consistent while bringing things like dependency injection & logging in a structured way to your code!”
…and that took long enough that I need a nap. 🤷♀️
I’ve touted Polly quite a few times here and elsewhere, and the .NET on AWS folks release a blog post series about it. With modern software, polly is a requirement. 🍾
Visual Studio 2022 17.2 is available and it includes support for C# 11’s “raw string literals”, and they’re making the Razor editor better (thank heavens!). There are a lot more goodies in the release, so give it a look-see.
And the team that works on Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 Preview 1 also released their latest update last week. Lots of little fixes here, and if you like Preview bits, have at it. 🍾
Using the new .NET threading API sped up a benchmark by 4x. That’s… a lot. I always thought .NET [Framework] was pretty fast, but to learn how much faster .NET [Core] is astonishes me. 🚄
Redefining the term 10x Developer The real 10x developers are the compilers we met along the way. 👋
A shockingly deep dive on Regex Improvements in .NET 7 It’s a 30 minute read from this point, and worth every minute. 📚
And that’s it for what happened Last Week in .NET. If you find something you think I’ll like, email me at george at georgestocker dot com or send me a tweet @ gortok on twitter.