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.  

What’s new in 2.2

We’re publishing a series of posts here that go over some of the new feature areas in detail. We’ll update the post with links to these posts as they go live over the coming days:

• API Controller Conventions
• Endpoint Routing
• Health Checks
• HTTP/2 in Kestrel
• Improvements to IIS hosting
• SignalR Java client 

Migrating Entity Framework 6 projects to Entity Framework Core 1 (Entity Framework 7)

MySQL Connector/Net 7.0.4 is the first development release that expands
cross-platform support to Linux and OS X when using Microsoft's .NET Core
framework. 

New Visual Studio Icon 

.NET Framework 4.6.1 

Editor support for new languages. 

IncrediBuild-Visual Studio partnership. 

Tools for Universal Windows Apps v1.2.  

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SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 is now available 

Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. 

Installing .NET 6 (alpha) on your M1 Mac 

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.1:

• This release includes a fix that reduces memory usage and GC pressure during solution load.

Microsoft Security Advisory for .NET Core Denial Of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2018-0765

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET Core and .NET native version 2.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability.

Microsoft is aware of a denial of service vulnerability that exists when .NET Framework and .NET Core improperly process XML documents. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a .NET Framework, .NET Core, or .NET native application.

The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET native applications handle XML document processing.

If your application is an ASP.NET Core application, developers are also advised to update to ASP.NET Core 2.0.8.