.NEXT (dotNext) is a set of powerful libraries designed for high-performance scenarios when your application expects near zero memory allocation and high flexibility. It is aimed to high-load microservices, database engines, actors, and various types of distributed applications. The feature list includes a rich set of efficient tools with low overhead:
- Buffer manipulations
- String building
- Monadic types
- Advanced GC notifications
- Low-level API to work with memory: alignment detection, type-safe unmanaged allocators, Span<T> manipulations
- Base64 streaming encoder/decoder
- Async-friendly SIEVE cache
- Async locks
- Extended LINQ Expression Trees and dynamic code generation tools with async lambdas for metaprogramming
- Raft Consensus Algorithm with extensions such as the failure detection
- Fast general-purpose Write Ahead Log
- TCP multiplexing protocol
- HyParView protocol implementation
All these things are implemented in 100% managed code on top of existing .NET API.
Release Date: 09-20-2026
- Added read-only concurrent access to custom struct field in
Atomic<T>container
- Updated dependencies
- Updated dependencies
- Updated dependencies
- Updated dependencies
- Added
FlushOnCommitoption toWriteAheadLog.Options: guarantees that a log entry is durably flushed to disk beforeAppendAsync/CommitAsyncreturns, even if not yet committed — closes a gap where a follower could lose an uncommitted entry on restart and later end up with a conflicting committed entry once a new leader replicates a different value at the same index. Trades away eager durability of the checkpoint's commit index (which is safely recomputed from committed entries on restart) for this guarantee - Fixed a race in
WriteAheadLog's background flusher where the commit index could be considered "flushed" before it was actually written to the checkpoint, causingFlushAsyncto return prematurely - Fixed a bug where installing a snapshot that skips over a range of log indices (e.g. via
InstallSnapshot) could leave the flusher and page-compaction logic reading uninitialized metadata for that boundary index, in rare cases causing background flushes to stall for extended periods or, more seriously, causing compaction to delete data pages still needed by log entries appended after the snapshot - Fixed a bug in
WriteAheadLog's cleanup scheduling that could repeatedly re-trigger page compaction for the same snapshot on every flush cycle instead of once per snapshot advancement WriteAheadLogwrites the checkpoint in a durable way onDisposeAsynccall, no need to callFlushAsyncexplicitly before it
DotNext.AspNetCore.Cluster 6.8.0
- Updated dependencies
DotNext.MaintenanceServices 1.8.0
- Updated dependencies
The libraries are versioned according to Semantic Versioning 2.0.
| Version | .NET compatibility | Support Level |
|---|---|---|
| 0.x | .NET Standard 2.0 | ❌ |
| 1.x | .NET Standard 2.0 | ❌ |
| 2.x | .NET Standard 2.1 | ❌ |
| 3.x | .NET Standard 2.1, .NET 5 | ❌ |
| 4.x | .NET 6 | ❌ |
| 5.x | .NET 8 | ✅ |
| 6.x | .NET 10 | ✔️ |
❌ - unsupported, ✅ - bug and security fixes only, ✔️ - active development
Philosophy of development process:
- All libraries in .NEXT family are available for various .NET form factors: Mono, WASM, NativeAOT
- Minimal set of dependencies
- Provide high-quality documentation
- Stay cross-platform
- Provide benchmarks
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