NET Core 1.1

A few days before closing this book's editing process, Microsoft announced in the Connect() event the availability of this new version of .NET Core. This update also affects the related versions of the "Core" family: ASP.NET Core 1.1 and EF Core 1.1.

Obviously, it's not a version with many foundational changes, nor breaking changes, either. The focus of the development team was to broaden the OS targets, improve performance, and fix bugs, fundamentally.

Thus, and according to the official page in Github (https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/1.1/1.1.md) and the team's blog, the changes are mainly located around four different areas:

• Support for the following distributions:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

  • CentOS 7.1+

  • Debian 8.2+

  • Fedora 23, 24*

  • Linux Mint 17.1, 18*

  • Oracle Linux 7.1

  • Ubuntu 14.04 & 16.04

  • Mac OS X 10.11, and 10.12

  • Windows 7+ / Server 2012 R2+

  • Windows Nano Server TP5 Linux Mint 18

  • OpenSUSE 42.1

  • MacOS 10.12 (also added to .NET Core 1.0)

  • Windows Server 2016 (also...