With the release of .NET 8, the Perceptor team has chosen to move quickly and migrate to the latest development platform from Microsoft leveraging the powerful improvements it brings.

This latest version marks a significant leap forward in performance, integration, AI capabilities, and support, all of which align with our commitment to provide a robust, scalable label inspection and verification solution for operations of all sizes and in all sectors.

We’ve picked out our top 5 reasons for migrating Perceptor IoT to .NET8.

Performance Improvements

.NET 8 introduces substantial performance optimizations that surpass those of .NET 7. This advancement translates into significant resource savings, allowing businesses to maintain high performance consistently, even during peak operational periods.

For Perceptor, this means that we can offer even greater scalability, accommodating both growing businesses and large-scale production environments with fluctuating demands. Our end users will experience unparalleled availability, security, and performance.

Streamlined Integrations

Unlike its predecessor, .NET 8 comes with built-in support for major integrated development environments, APIs and services. This development streamlines the process of integrating new features and capabilities, reducing the need for custom coding.

As a result, Perceptor can deliver new features and integrations to our users more swiftly, keeping pace with the evolving technological landscape and end user requirements.

Advanced AI Capabilities

.NET 8's collaboration with diverse technological contributions has unlocked advanced AI capabilities, enabling applications to produce precise and accurate outputs.

The Perceptor team is excited to harness these capabilities and plan for integrated tools and services - such as Cognitive Services and Edge Computing - that will provide operational insights and help us and our end users optimize processes and drive continuous improvement.

Longer term support

The Long Term Support (LTS) for .NET 8 (through to November 2026) provides a stable and reliable foundation for our continuing development efforts.

This support allows us to focus on enhancing Perceptor’s features and meeting end user demands, without the distraction of frequent platform upgrades. The November 2026 support date also means that end users requiring validation now have a longer term pathway for maintaining that validation.

Security enhancements                                                                                                                                   

.NET 8 introduces several significant security enhancements aimed at improving the overall robustness and safety of applications. These include:

• Token Based Authentication that allows for a more flexible and modern approach to user authentication and management​

• Enhanced ASP.NET Core Identity which includes better integration with Blazor for a consistent and customizable user experience

• Secure Software Supply Chain measures to ensure authenticity and integrity of code and dependencies to mitigate the risk of supply chain attacks.

We know that security and robustness are critical for our end users and so these security enhancements were a key factor in Perceptor’s migration to .NET8.

The all round performance enhancements in .NET 8 allow Perceptor to deliver greater value to our end users right now and to build a product roadmap which will see continuous innovation, enhancements and new features as standard.