We are excited to release .NET 6 Release Candidate 2. It is the second of two “go live” release candidate releases that are supported in production. For the last couple months, the team has been focused exclusively on quality improvements. There are a lot of new features in the release, which only fully come together near the end. The team is currently validating end-to-end workflows to find the places where design intentions and technical reality don’t yet fully match. That’s led to teams tightening leaky pipes and paving paths all the way to their destination.
- Windows 11 SDK support.
- Adds Xcode 13.0 support.
- Add AMD64 math functions to ARM64X CRT.
- Updates to the ARM64 and ARM64EC interfaces between the binary and the POGO instrumentation runtime.
- Fixed several problems with IntelliSense responsiveness and correctness affecting C++20 concepts, ranges, and abbreviated function templates.
- Fixed a false positive in local lifetime checks.
- Corrected an issue where arrays allocated with a constant of size > 32bits could allocate less memory than requested.
- Ensures that ATL string initialization occurs during static variable initialization, in the default AppDomain.
- Fixed a bug in C++ Concurrency::parallel_for_each that was crashing the calling process due to integer overflow.
- Fixed a bug in the STL's iterator debugging machinery that could cause crashes in multithreaded programs using STL containers.
- We have fixed a fatal internal compiler error caused by unnamed structs whose fields are referenced from SAL annotations.
- Fixes a rare crash when analyzing templated code that uses __uuidof.
- Fixed an issue that caused C++ static analysis results to sometimes not display correctly in the FixIt action.
- Fixed opening .uitest extension files in Coded UI project
- Fire component change events for non-component objects also in WinForms .NET designer
- Fix for crash on deleting ContextMenuStrip control in Windows Forms .NET designer.
- Guard against crashes when the Windows Forms designer reloads when dragging.
- Fix for intermittent VS crash while interacting with WinForms .NET designer during solution or project rebuild.
- Fixed a bug causing .NET 5 projects to be reported as out of date when they should have been up to date, causing slower builds.
- Automatically disable asset-indexing for large scale Unity projects.
- This release fixes an issue with deploying certain Windows Application Packaging projects where deployment is unnecessarily copying unmodified files.
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the fifth preview release of EF Core 6.0. This release includes the first iteration of compiled models.
Here’s what’s new in this preview release:
- .NET Hot Reload updates for
dotnet watch - ASP.NET Core SPA templates updated to Angular 11 and React 17
- Use Razor syntax in SVG
foreignObjectelements - Specify null for
ActionandRenderFragmentcomponent parameters - Reduced Blazor WebAssembly download size with runtime relinking
- Configurable buffer threshold before writing to disk in Json.NET output formatter
- Subcategories for better filtering of Kestrel logs
- Faster get and set for HTTP headers
- Configurable unconsumed incoming buffer size for IIS
This is the first release of a 64-bit Visual Studio and we’d love for you to download it, try it out, and join us in shaping the next major release of Visual Studio with your feedback.
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Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the second preview release of EF Core 6.0.
This release includes changes to handling the synchronization context when SaveChangesAsync is called, smoother integration with System.Linq.Async, updates to string concatenation and improvements to free text search.
Cisco has addressed a maximum severity vulnerability in its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on vulnerable devices.
