MonoGame 3.8.5-preview.2

By: MonoGame Foundation Jan 2, 2026

3.8.5-preview.2 Release Announcement

The MonoGame Foundation is pleased to announce Preview 2 of the 3.8.5 Release! Grab it here or from within your favourite IDE.

The highlights in this release are the new StartKit templates, with new VK/DX12 targets included.

Also of note:

  • It includes multiple platforms, if you do not have the iOS / Android workloads, then just remove them from the solution to test. (easy to do with the new slnx solution format)
  • No additional requirements from the other platforms.
  • Vulkan and DX12 are previews and there may be issues.

Please log any issues found in the MonoGame Preview forum thread to ensure everyone can feedback and discuss anything found.

Known issues

Known issues moved to a new GitHub Discussion

To keep up to date and crentralize reporting during the preview, all notes related to the release have been posted to a new GitHub discussion.

Known issues can be found here in the following GitHub discussion (where it can be more easily maintained)

3.8.5-preview Release discussion

Please help test this latest version!

Feedback

Any feedback or questions should be directed to the MonoGame Discord Forum here

Support

  • Financially - several tiers and options available for GitHub, PayPal and Patreon.
  • The MonoGame Store - MonoGame branded gear and merchandise.

Get Involved

  • Code, we accept Pull Requests.
  • Help in the Community discord and beyond (we also love blog posts).
  • Bounties, Fix bugs and add features faster as well as get paid for your work :)

Onwards and Upwards

The MonoGame Foundation team