Merge pull request #282706 from tomvcassidy/sfNET8AdditionalInfo

important .NET 8 callouts for SF 10.1CU3+

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/service-fabric/release-notes.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Azure Service Fabric releases
 description: Release notes for Azure Service Fabric. Includes information on the latest features and improvements in Service Fabric.
-ms.date: 06/25/2024
+ms.date: 07/31/2024
 ms.topic: reference
 ms.author: tomcassidy
 author: tomvcassidy
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ We're excited to announce that the 10.1 release of the Service Fabric runtime ha
 - Service Fabric now emits a health event visible in SFX/SFE when Sessions are exhausted.
 - This allows the weight of InBuild Auxiliary replicas to be set when applied to InBuild throttling. A higher weight means that an InBuild Auxiliary replica will take up more of the InBuild limit, and likewise a lower weight would consume less of the limit, allowing more replicas to be placed InBuild before the limit is reached.
 - Starting with Cumulative Update 3.0 (CU3) of the Service Fabric 10.1 runtime, the .NET 8 runtime is supported.
+    - For those interested in using .NET 8, keep the following in mind:
+        - You need to rebuild and redeploy your applications with .NET 8. This step isn't necessary if you want to continue using older versions of .NET.
+        - If you deploy **self-contained** applications, know that applications are [no longer self-contained by default in .NET 8](/dotnet/core/compatibility/sdk/8.0/runtimespecific-app-default). You must explicitly add and set the `SelfContained` property to `true` to your projects in .NET 8.
+        - For customers utilizing Service Fabric Remoting v1, customers must enable the `BinaryFormatter`, which isn't enabled with .NET 8. For the procedure to enable BinaryFormatter, see the [BinaryFormatter Obsoletion Strategy GitHub page](https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/better-obsoletion/binaryformatter-obsoletion.md).
 
 ### Service Fabric 10.1 releases
 | Release date | Release | More info |

articles/service-fabric/service-fabric-versions.md

@@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ author: tomvcassidy
 ms.service: service-fabric
 ms.custom: linux-related-content
 services: service-fabric
-ms.date: 06/24/2024
+ms.date: 07/31/2024
 ---
 
 # Service Fabric supported versions
-The tables in this article outline the Service Fabric and platform versions that are actively supported.
+The tables in this article outline the Service Fabric and platform versions that are actively supported. For a general summary of key announcements for each version, see the [Service Fabric versions page](service-fabric-versions.md). For more in-depth release notes, follow the link in the desired version's row in the following [listed versions tables](#listed-versions).
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > For a list of all the available Service Fabric runtime versions in available for your subscription, follow the guidance in the [Check for supported cluster versions section of the Manage Service Fabric Cluster Upgrades guide](service-fabric-cluster-upgrade-version-azure.md#check-for-supported-cluster-versions).
 >
 > For the procedure to upgrade your Service Fabric runtime version, see [Upgrade the Service Fabric version that runs on your cluster](service-fabric-cluster-upgrade-windows-server.md).
 
-Use the following Windows/Linux tab selector to view the corresponding listed Service Fabric runtime versions for Windows and Linux.
+Use the following **Windows/Linux tab selector** to view the corresponding listed Service Fabric runtime versions for Windows and Linux.
 
 # [Windows](#tab/windows)