Earlier this week, Microsoft published the roadmap for .NET Core 2.1, ASP.NET Core 2.1 and EF Core 2.1, expected to be out in the first quarter of 2018. The team also talked about several new features with this new release. This release is more of a feedback-oriented release based on .NET Core 2.0 release. The.NET Core 2.0 is a huge success and already more than half a million developers are now using .NET Core 2.0. All thanks to .NET Standard 2.0 release . In this post find out about the new features of .NET Core 2.1. 

.NET Core consists of many repositories. To file an issue, make a PR, or engage on specific topics, it's best to engage with developers working in the correct repo. A largely complete set of .NET Core and related repositories follows. 

Finally, the backend runs on .NET Core runtime by default on macOS and Linux, instead of the Mono runtime. Moving to .NET Core runtime delivers noticeable performance improvements, a lower memory footprint, and multithreaded NuGet restore. 

Installing Visual Studio 2019 16.4 will also install .NET Core 3.1 Preview 3, so you don’t need to separately install it. For Blazor development with .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 2019 16.4 is required. 

We just released a GA version of .NET Core 3.0 that includes support for Windows Forms and WPF. And along with that release we’re happy to announce the first preview version of the Windows Forms Designer for .NET Core projects! 

.NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available. This release contains only a handful of bug fixes and closely represents what we expect to release for .NET Core 3.0. 

This is the eighth of a series of posts on ASP .NET Core in 2019. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2019, titled A-Z of ASP .NET Core! 

.Net Core is a lightweight and cross-platform version of the DotNet framework and the awesome thing is Developers required the same expertise to work with Asp.Net Core as .Net Framework. 

On the roadmap for ASP .NET Core 2.2, it mentions support for HTTP/2 in Kestrel and HttpClient:

• ASP .NET Core 2.2 Roadmap: https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/307  

This 15-minute tutorial shows you how to create a basic .NET Core web application that retrieves data from the Oracle database with Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) Core.