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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 ...

Announcing F# 4.7

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Phillip Carter
We’re excited to announce general availability of F# 4.7 in conjunction with the .NET Core 3.0 release! In this post, I’ll show you how to get started, explain everything in F# 4.7 and give you a sneak peek at what we’re doing for the next version of F#. F# 4.7 is another incremental release of F# with a focus on infrastructural changes...

Announcing .NET Core 3.0

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is ...

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Daniel Roth
ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Today we are thrilled to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0! .NET Core 3.0 is ready for production use, and is loaded with lots of great new features for building amazing web apps with ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Some of the big new features in this release of ASP.NET Core include...

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 .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we're announcing .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1. Just like with Preview 9, we've focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release. We are now getting very, very close. We intend to release the final version on September 23 at .NET Conf. Download .NET Core 3.0 RC1 on Windows, macOS, and Linux, available now. Details...

Finalization implementation details

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19
maoni
Years ago I wrote a document on making finalization scanning concurrent. At the time there was an internal team that was using finalization as a way to resurrect objects and putting them back in their cache. While we’ve always advised to folks that finalization was for releasing native resources I couldn’t fault this team for using it the ...

.NET Framework September 2019 Security and Quality Rollup

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19
Brett Lopez
Today, we are releasing the September 2019 Cumulative Update, Security and Quality Rollup, and Security Only Update for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2019-1142– .NET Framework Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR) allows file creation in ...

.NET Core September 2019 Updates – 2.1.13 and 2.2.7

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19
Lee Coward
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core September 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. Information...