# F# Weekly #44, 2026 – Plotly.NET 6.0, and a new F# Advent Calendar

**URL:** <https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-44-2026-plotly-net-6-0-and-a-new-f-advent-calendar/5234>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** news\
**Created:** [November 1, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-44-2026-plotly-net-6-0-and-a-new-f-advent-calendar/5234 "2026-11-01T16:57:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sergey\_tihon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.fsharp.org/sergey_tihon/32/25_2.png) [@sergey\_tihon](https://forums.fsharp.org/u/sergey_tihon)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-44-2026-plotly-net-6-0-and-a-new-f-advent-calendar/5234/1 "2026-11-01T16:57:08Z")

</div>

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [F# Advent Calendar in English 2026](https://t.co/ZlV916FWyQ)
- [Paket support on renovate merged 🎉](https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/releases/tag/44.194.0)

> **[Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀 (@sergeytihon.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/sergeytihon.com/post/3myotmoubqs2j)**
>
> F# Advent Calendar in English 2026 #fsharp #FsAdvent https://sergeytihon.com/2026/10/25/f-advent-calendar-in-english-2026/

**Microsoft News**

- [Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/blazor-welcomes-syncfusion/)
- [Blazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Infragistics](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/blazor-welcomes-infragistics/)
- [.NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-october-2026-oob-security-updates/)
- [Visual Studio October Update – Compare Commits to Your Code, Resolve Conflicts in Bulk, Keep Coding - Visual Studio Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-october-update-compare-commits-to-your-code-resolve-conflicts-in-bulk-keep-coding/)
- [Publish Visual Studio Marketplace extensions securely with Trusted Publishing - Microsoft for Developers](https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/trusted-publishing-visual-studio-marketplace/)
- [Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service | Microsoft Foundry Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/microsoft-copilot-harness-in-foundry/)
- [Visual Studio October Update – Compare Commits to Your Code, Resolve Conflicts in Bulk, Keep Coding - Visual Studio Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-october-update-compare-commits-to-your-code-resolve-conflicts-in-bulk-keep-coding/)

**Videos**

- [Everything announced at GitHub Universe 2026: opening keynote recap - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCa0aa4tRM)
- [.NET + Foundry, Better Together: Decision Models in Action - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B0OoXzHk0k)
- [Blazor Community Standup: Free Syncfusion Toolkit for Blazor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jj1_gZOZYE)
- [Blazor Community Standup: Free Blazor components with Ignite UI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kRuRCRbpoo)
- [.NET AI Community Standup: Data Ingestion with .NET](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCbB6iPdBPU)

**Blogs**

- [F# Advent Calendar in English 2026 – Sergey Tihon's Blog](https://sergeytihon.com/2026/10/25/f-advent-calendar-in-english-2026/)

**Highlighted projects**

- [plotly/Plotly.NET: Interactive graphing library for .NET programming languages :chart\_with\_upwards\_trend](https://github.com/plotly/Plotly.NET)
- [fsprojects/FSharp.CloudEdge: A complete binding set for Cloudflare Services in F#](https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.CloudEdge)
- [CompositionalIT/farmer: Repeatable Azure deployments with ARM templates - made easy!](https://github.com/CompositionalIT/farmer)
- [AngelMunoz/DevNull.Client: A client and library for https://dev-null.sh](https://github.com/AngelMunoz/DevNull.Client)

**New Releases**

- [Fable 5.26.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fable/5.26.0)
- [Plotly.NET 6.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Plotly.NET/6.0.0)
- [Farmer 1.9.36](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Farmer/1.9.36)
- [G-Research.FSharp.Analyzers 0.26.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/G-Research.FSharp.Analyzers/0.26.0)
- [SqlHydra.Query 5.1.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/SqlHydra.Query/5.1.1)
- [WebSharper 10.1.9.686](https://www.nuget.org/packages/WebSharper/10.1.9.686)
- [Fable.Lit 2.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fable.Lit/2.0.0)
- [Sharpino 6.2.7](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Sharpino/6.2.7)

> **[Maxime (@mangelmaxime.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/mangelmaxime.bsky.social/post/3myzxd334ks2k)**
>
> ⚡️ Fable 5.25.0 is out!
> 
> 14 perf improvements for JS/TS:
> • Union hash 36 → 5 ns, 0 alloc
> • Dictionary lookup 39 → 30 ns, 0 alloc
> • Record hash 15-20% faster
> • List ops 15-30% faster
> 
> Contributors aligned behavior with .NET. Thanks goswinr, Leo...

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

[![Buy Me A Coffee](https://cdn.buymeacoffee.com/buttons/v2/default-yellow.png)](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sergeytihon)