Garbage collector improvements

The .NET garbage collector now allows you to adjust memory limits dynamically for cloud-native applications, especially those running on Kubernetes. This feature will be particularly helpful in scenarios where services are hosted in a cloud environment.

JSON enhancements

Several enhancements have been made to the JSON serialization and deserialization functions in .NET. This includes support for floating-point hardware and support for new numeric types like half structs.

Further, when deserializing data in earlier versions of .NET, any property in your JSON paytload that isn’t a POCO type would be ignored. With .NET 8, you can make all data members available in the JSON payload.

Time abstraction

The newly added TimeProvider class and ITimer interface provide time abstraction functionality, thereby allowing you to mock time in test scenerios. The time abstraction functionality provides support for the following:

• Create a new timer instance
• Retrieve local time or UTC time
• Retrieve a timestamp for measuring performance

The TimeProvider abstract class is designed in a way that makes it suitable for integration with mocking frameworks, providing methods that facilitate seamless and comprehensive mocking of all its aspects.