This post is about my recent experience of contributing to .NET, which has been open source since late 2014. 

.NET 6 Preview 5 Highlights SDK Workloads, the Foundation of .NET Unification 

Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the fifth preview release of EF Core 6.0. This release includes the first iteration of compiled models.  

Here’s what’s new in this preview release:

• .NET Hot Reload updates for dotnet watch
• ASP.NET Core SPA templates updated to Angular 11 and React 17
• Use Razor syntax in SVG foreignObject elements
• Specify null for Action and RenderFragment component parameters
• Reduced Blazor WebAssembly download size with runtime relinking
• Configurable buffer threshold before writing to disk in Json.NET output formatter
• Subcategories for better filtering of Kestrel logs
• Faster get and set for HTTP headers
• Configurable unconsumed incoming buffer size for IIS 

For .NET 6, we plan to no longer perform any form of harvesting to ensure that all assets we ship can be serviced. This means we're dropping anything older than:

• .NET Framework 4.6.1
• .NET Core 3.1
• .NET Standard 2.0 

We’re now in the second-half of the .NET 6 release, and starting to see significant features coming together. A great example is .NET SDK Workloads, which is the foundation of our .NET unification vision and enables supporting more application types.  

Overall, .NET 5 demonstrates a significant performance improvement over .NET Framework in XAP’s scenario. While there is still more work to do, the overall picture is clear that .NET 5 is phenomenally superior in most respects. 

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Today, we are releasing the .NET June 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages.

You can download 5.0.7 , 3.1.16 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64.