Sandbox testing works best when you stop chasing production parity. Learn what environment drift actually costs and which parts are worth fixing.

.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms. The post Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 appeared first on .NET Blog.
GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%. The post GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise…

Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their…