Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 7. It’s the second to last of the preview releases (before moving to RC). Most features should be very close to done at this point. 

The .NET Core SDK 3.1.106 includes .NET Core 3.1 Runtime so downloading the runtime packages separately is not needed when installing the SDK. After installing the .NET Core SDK 3.1.106, the following command will show that you're running version 3.1.106 of the tools. 

Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with Preview 8. 

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the sixth preview release of EF Core 5.0. This release includes split queries for related collections, a new “index” attribute, improved exceptions related to query translations, IP address mapping, exposing transaction id for correlation, and much more. 

we’re about half-way through the release now. Most of the features are now included, but there are still many changes that we expect in the next few previews to complete experiences and round off rough edges that still exist. Take care. 

Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 3. It contains a set of new features and performance improvements. We’re continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. 

Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 2. It contains a set of smaller features and performance improvements. We’re continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release, some of which are starting to show up as initial designs at dotnet/designs.  

This second 2.0 preview includes over a dozen fixes and changes over the previous 1.1 GA release.