Aspire 13.1 Brings MCP Integration, CLI Enhancements, and Azure Deployment Updates
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"Aspire 13.1 has been released as an incremental update that builds on the polyglot platform foundation introduced with Aspire 13. The release focuses on improving developer productivity through enhancements to the command-line interface, deeper support for AI-assisted development workflows, refinements to the dashboard experience, and clearer deployment behavior for Azure-based environments. As reported by the team, the update aims to make daily development tasks more predictable, easier to automate, and better aligned with modern AI coding tools."
"The Aspire CLI has received several updates designed to reduce friction when creating, running, and maintaining projects. As stated, Channel selection is now available for project creation commands and is persisted globally once chosen, ensuring consistent behavior across new projects. The CLI also detects already running instances and stops them automatically before starting a new run, avoiding common conflicts. Installation scripts now support an option to skip modifying the system PATH, which can be useful in controlled environments."
Aspire 13.1 expands the platform with features aimed at developer productivity. The release adds Model Context Protocol integration so AI coding agents can discover integrations, inspect application structure, and interact with running resources. The CLI now supports channel selection persisted globally, automatic stopping of running instances before new runs, and installation-script options to skip PATH modification. The dashboard includes a Parameters tab for viewing and managing configuration values and an improved GenAI visualizer for tool definitions, evaluations, and logs. Deployment behavior for Azure-based environments has been clarified to make automation and daily tasks more predictable.
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