PostSharp 5.0 adds support for .NET Core 1.1, Visual Studio 2017 and C# 7.0. It also introduces brand new features like the [Cache] aspect, the [Command] and [DependencyProperty] aspects for XAML applications. And the Logging feature has been completely revamped, now fully customizable and faster than ever.

.NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, and 4.6.1 will reach End of Support on Apr 26, 2022 - .NET Blog 

Announcing .NET 7 Preview 2 - The New, 'New' Experience - .NET Blog 

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. 

#Script is a simple, fast, highly versatile and embeddable scripting language for .NET Core and .NET Apps that utilizes a familiar JavaScript inspired expressive Syntax to enable dynamic scripting of .NET Apps via controlled access to pluggable methods and arguments within a sandbox environment - ensuring scripts are encapsulated and encourages the use of reusable and testable components where live environments can be easily re-created and simulated.  

Today we released our first public preview of  Blazor , a new experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly . Blazor enables full stack web development with the stability, consistency, and productivity of .NET. 

We recently published a BenchmarkDotNet-based benchmark on GitHub: https://github.com/DevExpress/XpoNetCoreDemos/tree/master/ORMBenchmark.

We used it to test the performance of the following Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries for .NET Framework 4.6.1 and higher:

• Entity Framework 6.0.2 (EF 6);
• Entity Framework Core 2.0.3 (EF Core); 
• eXpress Persistent Objects™ 18.1.3 (XPO).