Aspire 13.5.0

Aspire 13.5 is a developer-experience release focused on a richer, more interactive AppHost, closer C# and TypeScript parity, sharper tooling, more flexible deployment modeling, and a broad set of runtime-stability improvements.

Highlights

• 💬 Richer AppHost interactions — The Interaction Service now works across C# and TypeScript AppHosts with stable prompts and dynamic inputs, file uploads, progress dialogs, notifications, and user-defined resource command arguments that surface as dashboard controls and CLI options.
• 🖥️ Interactive terminal sessions — The experimental WithTerminal() API lets resources host REPLs, shells, TUIs, and other interactive programs directly in the dashboard, with an opt-in aspire terminal CLI command for attaching from your shell.
• 🌐 TypeScript AppHost is generally available — Polyglot AppHosts no longer require the ASPIREATS001 experimental diagnostic and gain custom health checks, container file copying, HTTPS developer certificates, faster startup, and several reliability fixes that further close the gap with C#.
• 🛠️ CLI installation and reliability — The Aspire CLI is available through npm and Nix alongside Homebrew, WinGet, mise, and NuGet. New C# AppHosts enable the CLI bundle by default, while aspire stop --force, aspire update --migrate, aspire doctor, docs search, signal handling, and stale-socket cleanup all improve day-to-day workflows.
• 🎨 Refreshed dashboard — The dashboard adopts official Aspire branding and a new accessible design-token system, with timestamp and exact numeric telemetry filters, console-log text search, clearer reconnect and health-check experiences, and correct telemetry streaming while filters are active.
• 💻 Rebranded VS Code extension — The extension is now named Aspire and adds an in-editor dashboard, Bun and MAUI debugging, resource commands in the tree view, discovered AppHosts, improved parameter handling, and more efficient workspace discovery.
• ☸️ More expressive deployments — Kubernetes and AKS gain first-class persistent volumes, Azure Container Apps adds deterministic unique resource naming, Azure environments support delegated subnets, and Docker Compose can publish Blazor gateways and configure shared memory.
• ☁️ Expanded hosting integrations — Azure resources can be referenced across resource groups, subscriptions, and tenants; the new Aspire.Hosting.Dotnet package models .NET projects by path; Radius deployment arrives in preview; and Foundry Local, Redis modules, dev tunnels, Go debugging, and other integrations gain new capabilities.

⚠️ Breaking changes

Notable changes include hosting context ServiceProvider properties being renamed to Services, PublishAsConnectionString becoming obsolete in favor of AddConnectionString, removal of aspire ps --resources and --include-hidden in favor of aspire describe, earlier proxyless endpoint port allocation, deprecation of the GitHub Models integration, removal of the dashboard AI Assistant, and opt-in rather than automatic dashboard launch from the VS Code extension.

See the full list and migration guidance in the Aspire 13.5 breaking changes.

📖 Learn more

For complete details, examples, migration guidance, and everything new in this release, read What's new in Aspire 13.5.

Thank you to all the community contributors who helped make Aspire 13.5 possible! 💜

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Full Changelog: v13.4.6...v13.5.0

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