beta8

ASP.NET 5 Beta8 Release Notes

We are pleased to announce the release of ASP.NET 5 beta8!

Please refer to our documentation for instructions on installing ASP.NET 5 beta8 for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Documentation and samples for ASP.NET 5 can be found at http://docs.asp.net.
You can find details on the new features and bug fixes in beta8 for the following components on their corresponding release pages:

• Antiforgery
• Caching
• Configuration
• CORS
• DataProtection
• DependencyInjection
• Diagnostics
• dnvm
• dnx
• dnx-watch
• EntityFramework
• EventNotification
• FileSystem
• Hosting
• HttpAbstractions
• Identity
• IISIntegration
• JsonPatch
• KestrelHttpServer
• Localization
• Logging
• Microsoft.Data.Sqlite
• Mvc
• Options
• Razor
• RazorTooling
• 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
• No .NET Core on CentOS This release does not support running on .NET Core on CentOS or derivatives. The issues with running on CentOS will be addressed in a future release.
• Unable to build for full .NET Framework using the .NET Core based DNX on OS X and Linux You cannot build DNX projects that target the full .NET Framework (ex dnx451, dnx46) using the .NET Core based DNX on OS X and Linux. To work around this issue remove the corresponding targets from the frameworks section in project.json.