Announcing: WinUI 2.8 🌐🎉

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v2.8.0

Microsoft.UI.Xaml 2.8.0 is now available 📣

You are now able to use the stable version of WinUI 2.8 in your applications! This release includes new features and several stability & performance improvements across the controls.

Release highlights include:

• WebView2 in WinUI 2. WebView2 enables you to embed web content in native applications with Microsoft Edge (Chromium). Check out Get started with WebView2 in WinUI 2 (UWP) apps for more info for how to use it in your app.
• Several bug fixes and improvements for a range of controls including TabView, NavigationView, InfoBadge, and ProgressRing.
• Improvements to accessibility and high contrast mode.

Bug fixes

For the full list of bugs fixed in this release, see the official GitHub release.

Get started

If you're new to WinUI, get started by following the steps in this doc: Getting started with the WinUI 2.x library

If you've used WinUI in the past, get started with 2.8 by downloading the latest NuGet package: NuGet Download

Helpful links and resources

• Release Notes - learn more about what's new in this release
• WinUI 2 Gallery - a sample WinUI app that shows you all of our controls in action, including the new controls and features in this release
• API Reference Documentation - in-depth details about the new APIs added for this release

Thank you!

Your contributions as a developer community have been incredibly valuable in shipping WinUI. We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by filing or fixing bugs, requesting features, implementing features, and generally being a significant part of the development process!