# Net Client NEST 8 download?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-client-nest-8-download/298558>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** language-clients\
**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-client-nest-8-download/298558 "2022-03-01T20:27:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![agonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@agonzalez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/agonzalez)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-client-nest-8-download/298558/1 "2022-03-01T20:27:08Z")

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Elastic 8 was released few weeks ago and NEST 8 documentation is online but I cant find NEST 8 nuget package. When it is going to be published or where I can download final release or a beta?

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**Author:** ![Nigel\_Small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nigel_small/32/100160_2.png) [@Nigel\_Small](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nigel_Small)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-client-nest-8-download/298558/2 "2022-03-02T11:40:25Z")

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Hi Alberto

You can find the pre-release (an alpha) over here:

> **[Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch 8.0.0-alpha.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch/)**
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> This strongly-typed, client library enables working with Elasticsearch. It is the offical client maintained and supported by Elastic.

We're still working on the v8 for .NET, so watch this space.

Cheers  
Nigel

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**Author:** ![NashSLX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nashslx/32/47551_2.png) [@NashSLX](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NashSLX)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-client-nest-8-download/298558/3 "2022-03-07T05:51:44Z")

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Hi Nigel!

Is there sort of ETA for this? The alpha package is from half a year ago, and I can see no Github activity in the project for almost a month now. Hopefully everyone involved in the project is ok!

Cheers  
Stefano

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**Author:** ![stevejgordon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stevejgordon/32/80912_2.png) [@stevejgordon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stevejgordon)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-client-nest-8-download/298558/4 "2022-03-14T10:07:49Z")

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Hi @NashSLX,

I maintain the .NET client so can provide a little more detail. The alpha is from January 26th so is about two months old. A second alpha should be out soon. We don't have a formal ETA for the GA package but we are working hard on producing it. For the time being, you may use the 7.17.x client with v8 server by following [this guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/7.17/connecting-to-elasticsearch-v8.html).

I'm working on a local branch for a fairly significant revision and improvement for the fluent API which will be merged as soon as it's complete. So you'll see more commits there soon I hope.

Steve

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/net-client-nest-8-download/298558/5 "2022-04-11T10:08:31Z")

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