Microsoft announced .NET Core 5 Preview 7, ASP.NET Core 5 Preview 7, and Entity Framework Core 5 Preview 7 in subsequent posts yesterday. Below you’ll find the highlights of each:

.NET Core 5 Preview 7

  • Performance Enhancements throughout including in the RyuJIT
  • System.Text.Json adds ability to handle circular references when serializing
  • Garbage Collection changes

ASP.NET Core 5 Preview 7

  • Blazor now targets .NET 5
  • Blazor accessibility and performance enhancements
  • HTTP/2 PING frames
  • Kestrel enhancements
  • CompareAttribute and FromBodyAttribute enhancements

Entity Framework Core 5 Preview 7 (EF Core 5)

  • DbContextFactory
  • Reset DbContext state
  • Savepoint for transactions
  • Cosmos enhancements with partition keys and configuration
  • Scaffolding DbContext now singularizes

.NET Core 5, ASP.NET Core 5, and EF Core 5 Preview 7 Released