The ASP.NET team is proud to announce general availability of ASP.NET Core 2.0.  This release features compatibility with .NET Core 2.0, tooling support in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, and the new Razor Pages user-interface design paradigm.  For a full list of updates, you can read the release notes.  The latest SDK and tools can be downloaded from https://dot.net/core. Read the .NET Core 2.0 release announcement for more information and watch the launch video on Channel 9.

 .NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure.

Two years in the making, we finally have our first beta release of Bootstrap 4. In that time, we’ve broken all the things at least twenty-seven times over with nearly 5,000 commits, 650+ files changed, 67,000 lines added, and 82,000 lines deleted. We also shipped six major alpha releases, a trio of official Themes, and even a job board for good measure.  

Add a new optimizer mode. Use --build-optimizer with ng build or ng serve to try it out.
We suggest to use it only in production builds. 

Dynamic import() expressions:

async function getZipFile(name: string, files: File[]): Promise<File> {
    const zipUtil = await import('./utils/create-zip-file');
    const zipContents = await zipUtil.getAsBlob(files);
    return new File(zipContents, name);
}

.NET Core debugger is back on Mac and Linux

• Dynamic Import Expressions
  
• Safer callback parameter checking
  
• Weak types
  
• String enums 
  

Angular CLI 1.1 is out and here are some notable new features:

• outputs smaller and faster bundles by default,
• now comes with a new welcome screen when creating a new application,
• has better support for serving with a different public URL, and
• now supports fixing generated code according to your linting preferences, e.g. use double-quotes instead of single quotes for strings.

Along with over 50 fixes! 

Tools: Allow script/update etc. to run when context is not in target project, but can be found in services