# F# Weekly #42, 2023 – What’s new in F# 8

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**Created:** [October 21, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-42-2023-what-s-new-in-f-8/3379 "2023-10-21T13:32:14Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Performance Improvements in ASP.NET Core 8 - .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-aspnet-core-8/)
- [First Avalonia UI Controls Released - The Actipro Blog (actiprosoftware.com)](https://www.actiprosoftware.com/blog/post/26228/first-avalonia-ui-controls-released)
- [Building 3D Applications and Content with .NET MAUI and Evergine - .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-maui-3d-app-with-evergine/)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9172tKgSaKc/maxresdefault.jpg "What is new in F# 8") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9172tKgSaKc&t=4s)

**Videos**

- [What is new in F# 8 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9172tKgSaKc&ab_channel=AmplifyingFSharp)
- [Ian Russell - F#, DDD, XP - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-j5_E0zts&ab_channel=Think.Design.WorkSmart.)
- [Exploratory Data Analysis with F# | DataHour by Munmun Das #F #programming #tutorial - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEDD1ZQyLOE&ab_channel=AnalyticsVidhya)
- [Crafting the Perfect Playground for F# - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnmnylPW38M&t=3s&ab_channel=bolontiku)
- [Taming the Giraffe - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mBnBwW8hKw&ab_channel=bolontiku)
- [Visual Studio & .NET: A Symbiotic Relationship with David Fowler | Episode 6 of 7 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpCny_kzT5U&ab_channel=MicrosoftVisualStudio)
- [xUnit Expanded – Better Testing With xUnit by Daniel Ward - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmkaRH3wk-4&ab_channel=JetBrains)
- [.NET Data Community Standup - Introducing the MongoDB provider for EF Core - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zat-ferrjro&t=1640s&ab_channel=dotnet)
- [The Fastest Way to Run Your Tests in .NET - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSwLokwEZdc&ab_channel=NickChapsas)
- ["Remove Braces From Your Code Now!" | Code Cop #004 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h8mKzptMzQ&ab_channel=NickChapsas)
- [Enums in .NET 8 Are FAST, but Mine Are Faster! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBY4Y6AykdM&ab_channel=NickChapsas)

**Blogs**

- [Adding multiple pages to your SAFE app | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/multiple-pages-in-safe/)
- [A little F# Event Sourcing library. | by Tony Lucca | Oct, 2023 | Medium](https://medium.com/@tonyx1/a-little-f-event-sourcing-library-4f55a310da3)
- [Lars Kokemohr Using F# in Godot (lkokemohr.de)](http://www.lkokemohr.de/fsharp_godot.html)
- [Updates to Docker images in .NET 8 (andrewlock.net)](https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-8-preview-updates-to-docker-images-in-dotnet-8/)

**F# vNext**

- [Running analyzers during continuous integration | FSharp.Analyzers.SDK (ionide.io)](http://ionide.io/FSharp.Analyzers.SDK/content/Running%20during%20CI.html)

> <https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1714274743103427041>

**Highlighted projects**

- [RonaldSchlenker/Trulla: Type Safe Text Templates - usable as type provider (F#) or source generator (C#)](https://github.com/RonaldSchlenker/Trulla)
- [amplifying-fsharp/ConfOpportunities: An issue driven repo open for sharing, discussing and collaborating conference / speaking opportunities](https://github.com/amplifying-fsharp/ConfOpportunities)
- [The Vide Collaboration Space · GitHub](https://github.com/vide-collabo)
- [RonaldSchlenker/TheBlunt: A a one-file recursive descent parser combinator for F# and Fable](https://github.com/ronaldschlenker/TheBlunt)
- [Doer-org/MorPhoto: AI-Driven Morphing Photographs Service](https://github.com/Doer-org/MorPhoto)

**New Releases**

- [Ionide 7.15](https://twitter.com/ChetHusk/status/1714281488055980494)
- [Fable 4.3.0](https://twitter.com/FableCompiler/status/1714573037498986523)
- [FS.FluentUI v1.2.0](https://twitter.com/SydTheDev/status/1714759763664519563)
- [TheBlunt 1.0.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/TheBlunt)
- [fats 0.0.4](https://twitter.com/dawe70704856/status/1714411759618924776)

> <https://twitter.com/verdonckflorian/status/1714297349751664793>
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> Florian Verdonck (nojaf) @verdonckflorian

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

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