.NET Core October Update - 2.1.5

[leecow]

.NET Core October Update - 2.1.5

Release Notes
Download 2.1.5

Please report any issues you find with 2.1.5, either responding to this issue, creating a new issue or creating a new issue in one of the following repos:

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• nuget/home - for NuGet questions and issues

[mkleijn]

Hi, it seems the download urls in releases.json now uses absolute URL's instead of relative paths to the base url specified in blob-sdk
This breaks the .NET Core VSTS task from installing sdk 2.1.403 on my build agent

Is this change intentional? In that case I probably should raise an issue in the VSTS Tasks GitHub instead

[luchenatwork]

Yes, same here. It break my VSTS build. An issue is submitted to VSTS task group.
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks#8472

[leecow]

@mkleijn - yes, this is intentional. We have changed our publishing CDN and they do not have a stable "container" portion of the resulting URL. Without this, it would be extremely unpleasant to construct URLs in the current json file. Apologies for the breaking change.

[bishal-pdMSFT]

@leecow this is breaking the Azure pipelines(formerly VSTS) task. What is the long term approach here as want to make sure that the task work well over the time?
Are blob urls not longer going to be there? Will each location directly point to full dlc url? Are you going to change this behavior for older versions as well? There seems to be no set pattern.

[bishal-pdMSFT]

Created a new issue #1977 as the current one is an "announcement".

[asheeshv]

I'm currently on .Net Core 2.0, and trying to upgrade to v2.1. I'm following this [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/migration/20_21?view=aspnetcore-2.1](2.0 to 2.1). However, my .Net Core app uses the target framework as .Net4.7 using .Net core references to 2.0. With the 2.1.5 release, should I update these references to v2.1.5, or just update these to use 2.1. Would it be of any significant difference of going in with 2.1.0 over 2.1.5? Thanks!

[karelz]

Superseded by newer release 2.1.6 - see #2053