8.0: Feature tracking gRPC - August

[wadepickett]

This issue is tracking all 8.0 related features that must be accounted for in the gRPC docs from preview to post RTW to make sure we don't miss anything.

This issue description will be continuously updated and will move to a new tracking issue for the next month.

After each doc is updated for 8.0 for gRPC, update the What's new in ASP.NET Core 8.0 doc with links. This has to be done fast since many folks are in that file, checked out no longer than 2 hours.

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Links to Announcements/What's New:

• What's new in .NET 8 Preview

Devblogs.microsoft.com and other announcements:

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Preview 1
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Preview 2
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET Preview 3
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 4
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 5
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 6
• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 7

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Old July Associated WorkItem - 123496

Old June Associated WorkItem - 123493

Old May Associated WorkItem - 96056

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Tracking features to issues and PR's

• HTTP/3 support enabled by default in 8 (available 6-7 but was not default enabled) (Preview 1)

  • Tracking issues:
    • 8.0 Update: Troubleshooting gRPC #28607 8.0 Update: Troubleshooting gRPC

• Support for named pipes in Kestrel create an IPC server and client (Preview 1)

  • Completed by @JamesNK and recently updated in PR #Improve guidance for IPC transports, discuss using multiple #28282 for doc Inter-process communication with gRPC

• HTTP/2 over TLS (HTTPS) support on macOS (Preview 1)

  • @JamesNK updated Troubleshoot gRPC on .NET Core: Unable to start ASP.NET Core gRPC app on macOS with PR Update docs for macOS + TLS on .NET 8 #28246
  • Tutorial: Create a gRPC client and server in ASP.NET Core: Run the service needs an update to the TLS/MacOs note. To be addressed while updating for 8.0 in issue 8.0: Update gRPC tutorial and sample #28251

• gRPC JSON transcoding no longer requires http.proto and annotations.proto (Preview 1) Copying http.proto and annotations.proto files into your app is no longer required. In .NET 8 preview 1 those files are included in the NuGet package and automatically referenced for you.

  • Tracking issue: 8.0: gRPC: http.proto and annotations.proto are now included and auto referenced #29080

See somewhat related 8.0 feature tracking for SignalR #28610

• gRPC supports native AOT in .NET 8. Native AOT enables publishing gRPC client and server apps as small, fast native executables. JamesNK has already provided the doc for this here: gRPC and native AOT in the related docs.

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[wadepickett]

Nothing new for gRPC for new features or changes in .NET 8 Preview 7.

[wadepickett]

Closing as complete. Discovered no new features or changes in latest preview after review.