Microsoft has announced the release of the .NET Framework 4.7.1. It’s included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. .NET Framework 4.7.1 is also available on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2008 R2+. They have added support for targeting the .NET Framework 4.7.1 in Visual Studio 2017 15.5.
The .NET Framework 4.7.1 includes improvements in several areas:
- Accessibility improvements in narration, high contrast and focus control areas
- .NET Framework support for .NET Standard 2.0 and compiler features
- More secure SHA-2 support in ASP.NET and System.Messaging
- Configuration builders
- ASP.NET Execution step feature
- ASP.NET HttpCookie parsing
- Enhancements in Visual Tree for WPF applications
- Performance and reliability improvements
You can download the .NET Framework 4.7.1
For building applications targeting .NET 4.7.1 download the Developer Pack. You can see the complete list of improvements in the .NET Framework 4.7.1 release notes. .NET Framework 4.7.1 reference sources are available on the GitHub .NET Reference source read-only repository. .NET Framework 4.7.1 will be available on Windows Update in the near future. Docker images will be made available for this release and we will update this post when available.