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September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on nuget.org.
The final versions of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available now.
How to get EF Core 3.0
EF Core 3.0 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages.
September 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19We previously said that preview 9 would be your last chance to test EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 before general availability. But it turns out that we made enough improvements to our libraries and across the whole of .NET Core 3.0 to justify publishing a release candidate build.
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19Preview 9 your last chance to try Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 before we release the final versions later this month. Get a head start on everything that is new and please give us your feedback.
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19The Preview 8 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org.
New previews of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available today.
Please install these previews to validate that all the functionality required by your applications is available and works correctly.
June 13, 2019Jun 13, 201906/13/19New previews of the next versions of EF Core and EF 6 are now available on NuGet.Org.
What is new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 6
In recent months, a lot of our efforts have been focused on a new LINQ implementation for EF Core 3.0.
May 8, 2019May 8, 201905/8/19The first preview of the EF 6.3 runtime is now available in NuGet.
Note that the package is versioned as 6.3.0-preview5. We plan to continue releasing previews of EF 6.3 every month in alignment with the .NET Core 3.0 previews, until we ship the final version.
April 18, 2019Apr 18, 201904/18/19Today, we are making the fourth preview of Entity Framework Core 3.0 available on NuGet, alongside .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. We encourage you to install this preview to test the new functionality and assess the impact of the included breaking changes.
December 4, 2018Dec 4, 201812/4/18Today we’re making the final version of EF Core 2.2 available, alongside ASP.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 2.2. This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform object-database mapping technology.
EF Core 2.2 RTM includes more than a hundred bug fixes and a few new features:
Spatial data support
Spatial data can be used to represent the physical location and shape of objects.
October 17, 2018Oct 17, 201810/17/18Entity Framework Core 2.2 Preview 3 available with a new preview of our data provider for Cosmos DB and updated spatial extensions for various providers. Preview 3 is going to be the last milestone before EF Core 2.2 RTM, so now is your last chance to try the bits and give us feedback if you want to have an impact on the quality and the shape of the APIs in this release.
September 12, 2018Sep 12, 201809/12/18Today we are making EF Core 2.2 Preview 2 available, together with a preview of our data provider for Cosmos DB and new spatial extensions for our SQL Server and in-memory providers.
Obtaining the preview
The preview bits are available on NuGet,
