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. 

The latest version of the Qt GUI has been released just three months after the previous update. Despite the short interval there's quite a lot of changes, including support for the Raspberry Pi 3. 

The nightly build of .NET 6 is now available which supports the M1 Mac. 

Let’s take a look at what’s in store for TypeScript 4.2!

• Smarter Type Alias Preservation
• Leading/Middle Rest Elements in Tuple Types
• Stricter Checks For The in Operator
• --noPropertyAccessFromIndexSignature
• abstract Construct Signatures
• The --explainFiles Flag
• Improved Uncalled Function Checks in Logical Expressions
• Destructured Variables Can Be Explicitly Marked as Unused
• Relaxed Rules Between Optional Properties and String Index Signatures
• Declare Missing Helper Function
• Breaking Changes  

Go Live

NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 is supported by Microsoft and can be used in production.  

• XAML designer for UWP - control properties not displayed
• UWP XAML designer doesn't update elements on updating XAML code
• XAML properties and document structure
• Properties window not showing the properties when clicking an object
• Unable to see properties of any items
• Installation error when trying to connect to the Mac: "The Xamarin.iOS version installed on 'x' (12.8.0.2) is newer than your version".
• Fixed right click solution name in titlebar VS crash bug.
• Improved performance for customers with the Azure workload installed.
• Corrected errors during restore and build on SDK-based projects that use 3rd party SDKs to target UWP platforms.
• Fixed a bug in C# compiler where it was not properly warning customers about incomplete interface implementations.
• Improved error messaging in Visual Studio Tools for Kubernetes.
• Fixed error when adding a comment in PR for SymbolCheck. 

The main new feature of VisualSVN Server 3.3 is the full support of Subversion’s locking for distributed VDFS repositories. Other significant changes include improved performance of commit to slave VDFS repositories and further optimization of VDFS replication over the WAN.  

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