beta6

ASP.NET 5 Beta6 Release Notes

We are please to announce the release of ASP.NET 5 beta6! ASP.NET 5 beta6 ships publicly as NuGet packages on https://nuget.org and includes a tooling update for Visual Studio 2015 RTM.

Also try out ASP.NET 5 with Visual Studio Code on Windows, Mac and Linux!

You can find documentation and samples for ASP.NET 5 at http://docs.asp.net.

You can find details on the new features and bug fixes in beta6 for the following components on their corresponding release pages:

• Antiforgery
• Caching
• Configuration
• CORS
• DataProtection
• DependencyInjection
• Diagnostics
• dnvm
• dnx
• EntityFramework
• EventNotification
• FileSystem
• Hosting
• HttpAbstractions
• Identity
• KestrelHttpServer
• Localization
• Logging
• Microsoft.Data.Sqlite
• Mvc
• Options
• Razor
• Routing
• Security
• Session
• StaticFiles
• Testing
• UserSecrets
• WebSockets

Breaking Changes

• For a list of the breaking changes for this release please refer to the issues in the Announcements repo.

Known Issues

• Tooling known issues Please see the Known Issues list in the Tooling repo
• "The current runtime target framework is not compatible" error when running on IIS or IIS Express To target dnx46 or dnx452 when running on IIS or IIS Express set the DNX_IIS_RUNTIME_FRAMEWORK environment variable to the target framework that you want to use (dnx46 or dnx452). You can do this from within Visual Studio in the Project Properties page for the web application, on the Debug tab. Just choose the IIS Express profile and add the environment variable.