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August 2018 - .NET Blog

Library Manager Released in 15.8

August 31, 2018 Aug 31, 2018 08/31/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) is now available in the general release of Visual Studio 2017 as of v15.8. LibMan first previewed earlier this year, and now, after a much-anticipated wait, LibMan is available in the stable release of Visual Studio 2017 bundled as a default component in the ASP.NET and web development workload. In the ...

.NET Framework August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

August 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2018 08/30/18
Tara Overfield
Last Updated 9/7/2018: Documented missing WPF updates Today, we are releasing the August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET CLR SQL WCF WPF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Endpoint Routing

August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
Endpoint Routing in 2.2 What is it? We're making a big investment in routing starting in 2.2 to make it interoperate more seamlessly with middleware. For 2.2 this will start with us making a few changes to the routing model, and adding some minor features. In 3.0 the plan is to introduce a model where routing and middleware operate together ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: SignalR Java Client

August 23, 2018 Aug 23, 2018 08/23/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
This post was authored by Mikael Mengistu. In ASP.NET Core 2.2 we are introducing a Java Client for SignalR. The first preview of this new client is available now. This client supports connecting to an ASP.NET Core SignalR Server from Java code, including Android apps. The API for the Java client is very similar to that of the already ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Healthchecks

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Damian Edwards
What is it? We're adding a health checks service and middleware in 2.2.0 to make it easy to use ASP.NET Core in environments that require health checks - such as Kubernetes. The new features are set of libraries defining an IHealthCheck abstraction and service, as well as a middleware for use in ASP.NET Core. Health checks are used by a ...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: HTTP/2 in Kestrel

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
As part of the 2.2.0-preview1 release, we’ve added support for HTTP/2 in Kestrel. What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol. Some of the notable features of HTTP/2 are support for header compression and fully multiplexed streams over the same connection. While HTTP/2 preserves HTTP’s semantics (HTTP headers, methods...

ASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1 now available

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Sourabh Shirhatti [MSFT]
Today we’re very happy to announce that the first preview of the next minor release of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core is now available for you to try out. We’ve been working hard on this release over the past months, along with many folks from the community, and it’s now ready for a wider audience to try it out and provide the feedback that ...

LibMan CLI Released

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
The Command Line Interface (CLI) is now available for Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) and can be downloaded via NuGet. Look for Microsoft.Web.LibraryManager.Cli The LibMan CLI is cross-platform, so you’ll be able to use it anywhere that .NET Core is supported (Windows, Mac, Linux). Install the LibMan CLI To install LibMan, type: ...

.NET Core August 2018 Update

August 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 08/21/18
Lee Coward
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core August 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.3 and .NET Core SDK 2.1.401. Getting the Update The latest .NET Core updates are available on the .NET Core download page. See the .NET Core 2.1.3 release notes for details on the release including a detailed commit list. Docker Images .NET Docker ...