Oqtane Community Standup - April 2026

The monthly Oqtane Community Standup was held on April 1, 2026.

2026 Microsoft MVP Summit

Shaun Walker shared some insights from the Microsoft MVP Summit which he attended last week in Redmond, Washington. He also discussed the .NET 11 roadmap and highlighted some notable items including Microsoft's plan to provide feature parity for Blazor Server-Side Rendering and MVC. The .NET 11 roadmap is public and can be accessed here.

10.1.1 Release Update

10.1.1 released on March 6, 2026 and was a maintenance release.

• 23 Pull Requests (3476 Total)
• 41 Commits (7728 Total)
• 2 Contributors (58 Total)

Contributors: @sbwalker, @leigh-pointer

10.1.2 Release Update

10.1.2 released on March 26, 2026 and was a maintenance release.

• 10 Pull Requests (3486 Total)
• 20 Commits (7748 Total)
• 6 Contributors (58 Total)

Contributors: @sbwalker

Roadmap

Shaun Walker shared a diagram of the Scale-Out architecture which will be the focus of the 10.2 release. The diagram can be accessed here. He also mentioned that the 10.2 release is expected in Q2 2026.

Events

Some notable events for .NET developers were mentioned:

• Interactive Blazor and .NET Identity
  Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVhpKOjqWQw
• 2026 Trailblazor Conference
  Trailblazor Conference Website
  Wednesday, June 17, 2026
  Daniel Roth from Microsoft will be keynote speaker
  Focused on creativity and innovation in the Microsoft ecosystem

April Fools

A prank was played on attendees when Shaun Walker announced "Oqtane Will Migrate to React JS"

Demonstration

Leigh Pointer presented his Oqtane AI Playbook which provides governance for developing Oqtane extensions. Leigh has invested considerable time documenting Oqtane's unique conventions in markdown files which can be consumed by AI so that provides the best possible output for software developers.

Epilogue

The full recording of the meeting has been published to Oqtane's YouTube Channel:

Watch Full Recording

The next Oqtane Community Standup will be on Wednesday, May 6, 2026:

Public Meeting Link

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