microsoft/WindowsAppSDK v2.0-exp6

2.0 Experimental 6 (2.0.0-experimental6) 🧪

Repository: microsoft/WindowsAppSDK

Tag: v2.0-exp6

Published: 2026-03-13T20:41:44Z

Prerelease: yes

Release notes:

Windows App SDK 2.0-Experimental6 (2.0.0-experimental6)

WinAppSDK 2.0.0 Experimental 6 is the latest experimental version of WinAppSDK providing new features and improvements to the platform.

What's new in WinAppSDK 2.0 Experimental 6:

• The version of ONNX Runtime has been updated to 1.24.2.
• NPUPowerMode has been deprecated in favor of newer power management APIs.
• GetReadyState now gracefully returns NotSupported when the session broker is unavailable, instead of throwing an exception.
• Added NV12 output format support for Video Super Resolution.
• Improved DeleteIndex reliability.
• App Content Search are part of a separate Microsoft.Windows.Search package instead of being part of Microsoft.Windows.AI package.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed ImageDescription.DescribeAsync failing with InternalError due to a race condition
• Fix for OCR Bounding boxes returning negative values in some edge cases.

To see everything that's new and changed, see the full [Windows App SDK 2.0 Experimental release notes](https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/2.0/2.0.0-experimental6/release-notes).

Try it out

• Download the 2.0.0-experimental6 NuGet package to use WinAppSDK 2.0 in your app.
• Download and update the WinUI Gallery to see the WinUI 3 updates firsthand.

Getting Started

To get started using Windows App SDK to develop Windows apps, check out the following documentation:

• Install developer tools .
• Create a WinUI 3 app.
• Continue your development journey. -