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Microsoft has released its March 2026 Patch Tuesday, fixing 84 vulnerabilities including two zero-days, 8 critical CVEs, and an AI-discovered CVSS 9.8 RCE flaw.

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.