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Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 1

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20
Arthur Vickers
Today we are excited to announce the first preview release of EF Core 5.0. Prerequisites The previews of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1. This means: How to get EF Core 5.0 previews EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4

December 3, 2019 Dec 3, 2019 12/3/19
Arthur Vickers
Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.1 and Entity Framework 6.4 We are excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.1 and EF 6.4 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.1 and ASP.NET Core 3.1 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.1 EF Core 3.1 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General Availability

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Diego Vega
We 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. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can ...

Release Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 are now available

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19
Diego Vega
We 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. Hence the packages for EF Core 3.0 RC1 and EF 6.3 RC1 were uploaded to ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Diego Vega
The 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...