You may have missed this in the Avalonia 12.0 launch... Our VS Code extension is now completely free. No account needed. No usage restrictions. Download. Install. Develop. avaloniaui.net/vscode/

1007 days since we released Avalonia 11. Avalonia 12.0 is available NuGet now! Our mantra has been: PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE! avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

Avalonia 12.0.0 RC2 is here. Your feedback on RC1 drove real improvements, and we're getting very close to a stable release. Give it a spin and let us know how you get on! github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

The team at Icons8 have taken Lunacy to the browser! This is the coolest Avalonia on WASM app we've seen yet! lunacyapp.com/

The first public preview of the Avalonia backend for .NET MAUI is now available! If you’ve been looking for a way to bring your .NET MAUI apps to Linux and the browser, take a look. avaloniaui.net/blog/maui-a...

Building Avalonia apps with AI? Avalonia Build MCP supercharges your workflow. It gives your AI always up-to-date access to our docs, plus tools and prompts to write better Avalonia code. avaloniaui.net/blog/your-a...

You absolutely need to tune into the latest .NET Rocks episode! dotnetrocks.com/details/1993

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...

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

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/

Just wrapped an incredible Azure Dev Summit! Loved connecting with so many of you and hearing about the amazing things you're building. Can't wait to continue the conversations at Techorama later this month! 👋

Avalonia Accelerate just got better! 🚀 What's new: - Brand new VS extension for streamlined workflows - One-click app packaging - Markdown viewer control - Enhanced TreeDataGrid component - OnScreenKeyboard control Learn more: avaloniaui.net/blog/accele...

Plot twist: That slick Windows 11 app with Mica effects? It's built with Avalonia! Fluent Search looks so native that users think it's UWP. Nope - just Avalonia delivering native Windows performance. Even Windows-only apps deserve better than Electron. fluentsearch.net

The next iteration of Accelerate launches on Monday. Brand new tooling, a free Community Edition for 67% of users, trials, startup discounts, and new pro UI controls. Here's what's changing with licensing: avaloniaui.net/blog/buildi...

Excited to announce Avalonia UI's investment in Wilderness Labs Combining Meadow's IoT platform with Avalonia means .NET across the entire stack. Read more: avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

KubeUI: Kubernetes management made simple with Avalonia! ⚓ ✅ Multi-cluster support ✅ YAML editing ✅ Pod logs & console ✅ Port forwarding ✅ Cross-platform (Win/Mac/Linux) Managing K8s clusters has never looked this good. Built with .NET & Avalonia! github.com/IvanJosipov...

Readiris PDF 23 runs on Avalonia! This powerful PDF tool with OCR, editing, and signing features started as WPF but went cross-platform with Avalonia! iriscorporate.com/softwares/r...

Wayland is becoming the default display protocol on Linux. Avalonia is getting native Wayland support. Embedded comes first. Compositors follow. Existing apps remain safe through XWayland. Explore the challenges: avaloniaui.net/blog/bringi...

We're experimenting with additional rendering backends for Avalonia. SkiaSharp remains the default (and will for years), but we're exploring what GPU-first rendering could bring to the platform. Read about our early experiments: avaloniaui.net/blog/the-fu...

> 101M package downloads! - 101,477,309 NuGet downloads across all Avalonia UI packages - 1,700,000+ unique projects in 2025 alone Real production packages only. We keep our nightlies off NuGet to give you honest numbers, not inflated stats. This is all thanks to you. Thank you ❤️ #dotnet

UXDivers showcases what's possible with Avalonia! 🎨 Their HMI sample features: ✨ Real-time weather data ✨ LiveCharts gauges ✨ Glass effects ✨ AOT compilation ✨ MVVM patterns Professional UI/UX meets cross-platform .NET. This is the future! uxdivers.com/avalonia

A big welcome to Luke who's joining our team! 🎉 He's here to help developers succeed with Avalonia! You may know him better as AngelSix. He's been creating content that helps .NET developers build amazing apps for years.

Pleased to share that we'll be at Azure Dev Summit next month (Oct 13-16). Just in time as we've been working on some new swag 👀 While these beauties are for our team members, we'll have some exclusive goodies to give away at our booth. See you there! azuredevsummit.com/

Enscape uses Avalonia! 🏗️ The real-time rendering plugin trusted by architects worldwide for Revit, SketchUp & Rhino relies on our UI framework. When industry leaders like @ChaosGroup need cross-platform performance, they choose .NET & Avalonia. chaos.com/enscape

Release alert: Avalonia 11.3.6 is here. A small release, but one your macOS users will appreciate. github.com/AvaloniaUI/...