Avalonia 12.0.0 Preview 1 is here.
Try it, break it, tell us about it.
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Avalonia 12.0.0 Preview 1 is here.
Try it, break it, tell us about it.
avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...
Avalonia was featured in the latest edition of @JetBrainsRider Open Source in Focus ❤️
blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2026/0...
Our CEO 'built' a stunning Avalonia app, between emails, meetings and other boring tasks.
He used Claude Code, Stitch and the Avalonia DevTools MCP server to build something that looks 10x better than the existing samples.
Here's how: avaloniaui.net/blog/accele...
Massive milestone achieved!
Avalonia has just hit 30,000 stars on GitHub! ⭐
A massive shoutout to our incredible community!
Your passion powers the ultimate cross-platform UI framework for .NET.
We've released a preview of our completely rewritten Avalonia for VSCode extension.
Powered by the same new XAML parser as our Visual Studio extension, it a ton of new features!
Let us know what you think!
avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...
Avalonia 12 docs are getting a major upgrade.
We're adding better UX for those using AI agents, along with a huge improvement to code snippets.
Snippets are becoming fully interactive. 🔥
Edit and experiment with functionality in the docs!
Heading to #NDCLondon?
Be sure to say hello to Michael and Luke ❤️
They’re loaded with treats, quality swag, and eager to chat about cross-platform development!
We've shipped the Avalonia DevTools MCP server in 2.2.0-beta2.
Watch Claude recreate a production UI view from a screenshot, inspecting properties, comparing outputs, and iterating until it's pixel-perfect.
This is what agentic development looks like:
avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...
You can now subscribe to Avalonia Accelerate on a 'rent-to-own' basis! 🚀
Subscribe for 12 months and receive a perpetual license at the end.
This is just one of the improvements available in our new Avalonia portal. avaloniaui.net/blog/introd...
One .NET MAUI app, two backends.
On the left, it’s running on Catalyst. On the right? That's running on the Avalonia backend.
We're making great progress on the MAUI backend with huge wins coming for mobile devs using Avalonia!
RestApia reimagines API testing with Avalonia!
No more form-based hassles - just pure coding flexibility for building and testing your HTTP requests.
When devs want power tools that respect their workflow, they build with Avalonia.
restapia.app
The low-code platform powering 500+ apps at Bosch and saving Toyota 30% in work hours trusts Avalonia as their UI framework 🤝
Enterprise-grade platforms deserve enterprise-grade UI technology.
outsystems.com
Hack Week has been in full swing, and the team’s been building some seriously interesting things!
One improvement thats available right now is documentation comments, powered by GitHub Discussions.
Want to see our progress on bringing .NET MAUI to Linux & WebAssembly through Avalonia?
Tim has put together a post detailing our progress.
Check out the latest update, including a new demo!
avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...
#dotnet #dotnetmaui
1,000 users in no time" - MultiDrive's Avalonia success story!
This high-speed disk toolkit from Atola (22 years in data recovery) chose our framework for their free tool.
When data recovery pros need performance & reliability, they build with Avalonia.
multidrive.io
Redisant's toolbox: 20+ dev tools, ALL built with Avalonia!
✅ Redis/NoSQL management
✅ Message queue tools (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar)
✅ Industrial protocols (Modbus, IEC104)
✅ GPU-accelerated UI
One framework powering an entire company's products!
redisant.com
One of the nice side effects of building an Avalonia backend for .NET MAUI is that Avalonia itself gains new features!
To implement MAUI's SwipeView, we had to extend the Swipe Control found in the Avalonia Labs project.
github.com/AvaloniaUI/...
EMU by ENTTEC: Real-time stage lighting powered by Avalonia!
✨ Controls 8 universes (4,096 channels)
✨ Audio-reactive lighting
✨ MIDI/VST3 integration
✨ Cross-platform
Pro lighting engineers trust Avalonia for mission-critical shows.
enttec.com/product/dmx...
Say hello to our newest team member, Michael.
He’s joining us to strengthen operations at Avalonia, bringing that rare mix of deep technical expertise and operational discipline.
We’re excited to have him on board to help scale Avalonia’s next chapter of growth. 🔥
Thrilled to welcome Javier Suárez to Avalonia UI.
Javier joins us from Microsoft, where he worked on the .NET MAUI team, and will be helping us advance mobile support, rendering performance and developer experience.
Explore his GitHub profile: github.com/jsuarezruiz
AMD's GPU Reshape: Debugging shaders with Avalonia!
✅ API agnostic (Vulkan/D3D12)
✅ Instruction-level validation
✅ Real-time GPU→CPU messaging
✅ Cross-platform UI
Professional graphics debugging powered by .NET & Avalonia.
github.com/GPUOpen-Too...
.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser, powered by Avalonia.
After years of community requests, we are delivering:
– Linux desktop
– WebAssembly
– up to 2× faster performance on macOS
Try the live demo and register your interest for early access: avaloniaui.net/blog/net-ma...
The license is referring to our paid components. The community license doesn’t include our paid UI components.
This license doesn’t replace the MIT license of Avalonia.
Azure Key Vault Explorer:
Security meets simplicity with Avalonia! 🔐
✅ Aggregate secrets across vaults
✅ Auto-clear clipboard
✅ Encrypted SQLite storage
✅ Cross-platform (Win/Mac/Linux)
Managing Azure secrets has never looked this good!
github.com/sidestep-la...
We’re teaming up with Google’s Flutter team to bring Impeller to .NET
Impeller is Flutters new GPU-optimised renderer, replacing Skia for better performance on mobile and embedded devices.
This is what open collaboration looks like 🚀
avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...
Native gRPC testing across platforms?
FintX does it with Avalonia!
Proto file parsing, code generation, real-time performance graphs - all in a slick cross-platform UI.
When you need serious tooling for microservices, you build with .NET & Avalonia.
github.com/namigop/FintX
Those apps should migrate to Avalonia 🙏
Most WPF apps don't need a rewrite. They need XPF.
✓ Keep your XAML
✓ Keep your C# logic
✓ Keep your dependencies
✓ Ship to Mac & Linux
Same proven codebase. New platforms.
Learn how: avaloniaui.net/xpf?utm_sou...
We’ve sent two of our best engineers, Julien and Benedikt, to Techorama, armed with hundreds of bars of Tony’s Chocolonely 🍫
If you’re there, swing by the stand for a chat, some chocolate, and a look at what’s next for .NET UI.
JetBrains rewrote dotMemory & dotTrace with Avalonia!
From WPF to cross-platform - now their profilers run natively on Mac & Linux.
Even JetBrains knows Avalonia is the future of .NET desktop development.
jetbrains.com/dotmemory/
