.NET Foundation March Update

by Jon Galloway

It's time for the March Update! As always, these are available both on our blog and via e-mail: Sign up to get the .NET Foundation Update via e-mail

.NET Foundation Updates

Meetups

The .NET Foundation sponsored .NET Meetup Pro groups are continuing to grow! Here are some quick stats:

Please help connect us with other groups you're aware of that haven't joined yet by dropping me a note jon@dotnetfoundation.org or leaving a comment below.​


.NET Foundation Project News

Orleans 2.0 Release

Orleans 2.0 is out! 2.0 is the first major overhaul of Orleans since the original release in 2015. The four key areas of investment were:

  1. .NET Core compatibility, and hence also ability to run on non-Windows platforms.
  2. Deep refactoring of the APIs to leverage the new capabilities of the platform (configuration, dependency injection, tracing, etc.) and to modernize and align it with the style and direction of .NET Core and ASP.NET APIs.
  3. Revamped extensibility model that enables adding and composing of new types of capabilities without the need to change the framework.
  4. Support for distributed transaction – storage-agnostic scalable ACID operations (beta).

Grab the new release here.

DNN v9.2 Release

DNN v9.2 released. This release brings "Prompt", a CLI for DNN, that originated as an OSS contribution from one of our community members, Kelly Ford. 9.2 also offers performance optimizations, new page management, stabilization, the Azure storage connector, and dependency updates.

While 9.2 has been released the DNN Technology Advisory Group continues meeting weekly planning out the course for migrating DNN to .NET Core.

See the release notes here.

.NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 - How's It Working For You?

The .NET Core team would love your feedback on how .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 is working for you. Now is the time to get them your feedback so it can be included in the .NET Core 2.1 release.

You can report issues or feedback specific to the .NET Core 2.1 Preview release here.  
Read more about .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1 on this release post.


Community Links and News

Weekly ASP.NET Community Standup

If you want to keep up to date with the latest ASP.NET news, join the Weekly ASP.NET Community Standup with Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards and Jon Galloway. This is a live video meeting every Tuesday, with demos of new features and prototypes, live Q&A, weekly community links, and more. Get the schedule, catch recent shows, and join the live standups at https://live.asp.net

Even better, you can subscribe to the .NET Foundation's YouTube channel to make sure you catch both the ASP.NET Community Standup and  .NET Design Reviews GitHub Triage every week.

Recent Standout Community Posts

Here are some recent posts we've featured on the ASP.NET Community Standup:

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