This past week was marked by the release of Giraffe 5.0, updates to the .NET Framework, a new version of Azure SDK, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of May 17th, 2021.

It has been a slow week for Microsoft - which is understandable, considering that this year’s edition of Microsoft Build starts tomorrow. However, there were still some important releases - such as the cumulative update for .NET Framework, which addressed performance issues in the CLR, a few bugs in WPF, and included an update to allow .NET Framework 4.8 to negotiate TLS 1.3 (in the case the underlying OS supports it).

The Azure team also released a new version of the Azure SDK, which included updates to Event Grid, Identity, and Service Bus for .NET. The new SDK also contains two interesting initial releases for .NET developers: Azure Attestation and Azure Mixed Reality Authentication. The Microsoft Azure Attestation (MAA) service is a unified solution for remotely verifying the trustworthiness of a platform and the integrity of the binaries running inside it. Azure Mixed Reality Authentication supports exchanging Mixed Reality account credentials for an access token from the STS that can be used to access Mixed Reality services. You can find all .NET features included in this release here.

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