.NET 10 was released last year and work is in progress on .NET 11, due for release this year. As a reminder, there is an annual release cycle for .NET (a topic of hot debate).

Time has come to see what’s coming, so I wanted to install the latest version of the SDK.

I am using the work of isen-ng to support having multiple versions of the SDK on my primary machine running in macOS 15.

.NET 11 is available in preview.

You install it as follows, using Homebrew.

brew install --cask dotnet-sdk11-preview

You should see something like this:

dotnet11

We can then verify it installed as follows:

dotnet --list-sdks

Which should show something like this:

listSDKs

Finally we can check that it runs.

dotnet --info

Which will print something like this:

dotnetInfo

And it seems we’re good to go.

TLDR

.NET 11 betas are available.

Happy hacking!