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Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 2

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the last of two RCs before the official release in November. RC2 is a "go live" release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we're looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final ...

MLOps: DevOps for Machine Learning

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20
Bri Achtman
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) is like DevOps for the machine learning lifecycle. This includes things like model deployment & management and data tracking, which help with productionizing machine learning models. Through the survey below, we'd love to get feedback on your current DevOps practices as well as your prospective usage ...

.NET Framework October 1, 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Update for Windows 10, version 2004 and Windows Server, version 2004

October 1, 2020 Oct 1, 2020 10/1/20
Tara Overfield
Revised 1/15/2021:  Added known issues details for ASP.Net applications may not deliver cookieless tokens in the URI Today, we are releasing the September 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR1...

Repo experience survey results

September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20
Sam Spencer
A couple of months ago we ran a survey of our github community to understand our users satisfaction and experience with the mechanics of how the projects are open-sourced with the community. This post shares the results.

ML.NET September Updates

September 25, 2020 Sep 25, 2020 09/25/20
Bri Achtman
This release of ML.NET (1.5.2) brings numerous bug fixes and enhancements, while tooling updates include the ability to train object detection models using Azure ML via Model Builder and to locally train image classification models with the ML.NET CLI.

NET Core Releases and Support

September 23, 2020 Sep 23, 2020 09/23/20
Jamshed Damkewala
7/15/2021: this post was revised to update the support period for "Current" releases from 15 months to 18 months, or 6 months after the next release ships.   While we've covered .NET Core releases, cadence and support policies in previous blog posts, the information has been distributed across a couple of individual posts. With the...