Support for .NET 8

As .NET 8 is released at Dotnetconf today, me and the teams are also happy to announce support for .NET 8 in Optimizely products!

We have tested the latest CMS, Commerce and Search & Navigation packages as well as the most common Optimizely provided addons using the .NET 8 release candidates. After a quick verification with the RTM version of .NET 8 I can now officially say that we support .NET 8.

Our DXP cloud service also supports running .NET 8 applications. Which runtime version is used is determined by which version you compile your project for, through the metadata that the build outputs to the [ProjectName].runtimeconfig.json file. If you want to you can also update the transitive dependencies from our packages to the Microsoft.Extensions.* packages. We have tested running in .NET 8 both with the lowest dependency version we require (6.0) and the 8.0 versions of those.

As mentioned before we continue to release assemblies compiled for .NET 6, as it is not required for us as library authors to change our compilation target for you to run in .NET 8 now that we have verified compatibility. We will change our compilation target too in the future, most likely as part of a future major version release.

If you run into any issues, as usual contact support.

Now, go get .NET 8 and build even better applications with Optimizely!