EF Core 6.0 Preview 5
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EF Core 6.0 preview 5 is available from NuGet.
Preview 5 contains the following new features:
- Reduce EF Core application startup time via compiled models
- Add TagWith overload that gets the filename and line number automatically
- Translate bool ToString for SQL Server
- Scaffold from a database and generate C# 8 nullable reference types
- Translate Substring with single parameter
- Support split queries for projections containing non-navigation collections
- Improve EF Core performance on TechEmpower Fortunes
- Support empty constructor and DbContextOptions constructor in DbContextFactory
- Make DbContext pooling accessible to non-DI applications
- Increase the default maximum context pool size to 1024
And for Microsoft.Data.Sqlite:
Preview 5 also includes the following new features from previews 1 through 4:
- Improvements to optional dependents sharing table with principal
- Detection of trailing underscores when matching backing fields to properties
- Performance gain by recycling relational and ADO.NET objects in query execution
- Allow explicit temporary values to be stored in entity instances
- Default options added to all ToDebugString methods
- Improved logging of array parameter values
- Preserve synchronization context in SaveChangesAsync
- Translate String.Concat with multiple arguments
- Smoother integration with System.Linq.Async
- More flexible free-text search
- UnicodeAttribute
- PrecisionAttribute
- EntityTypeConfigurationAttribute
- Translate ToString on SQLite
- EF.Functions.Random
- Support for SQL Server sparse columns
- In-memory database: validate required properties are not null
- Improved SQL Server translation for IsNullOrWhitespace
- Database comments are scaffolded to code comments
And for Microsoft.Data.Sqlite:
See GitHub for all issues resolved in preview 5.