EF6.1.2 Beta 2 Available

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Today we are making Beta 2 of the EF6.1.2 release available. This patch release contains bug fixes and some contributions from our community.

 

When will EF6.1.2 RTM?

We were originally planning to go straight to RTM from Beta 1. However, we ended up taking a number of important bug fixes after Beta 1 shipped and we decided that the churn in the code base warranted another pre-release before we RTM. The pre-releases are important because they allow our customers and provider/extension writers to report any issues before we ship the RTM release.

Our plan is to ship RTM sometime next month. This may change if we have additional high priority bugs reported on Beta 2.

 

What’s in Beta 2?

EF6.1.2 is mostly about bug fixes, you can see a list of the fixes included in EF6.1.2 on our CodePlex site.

We also accepted a couple of noteworthy changes from members of the community:

  • Query cache parameters can be configured from the app/web.configuration file

     <entityFramework>   
  <queryCache size='1000' cleaningIntervalInSeconds='-1'/>   
</entityFramework>

  • SqlFile and SqlResource methods on DbMigration allow you to run a SQL script stored as a file or embedded resource.

  • DbContext.Database.CurrentTransaction gives you access to the transaction the underlying store connection is enlisted in.

 

Where do I get the beta?

The runtime is available on NuGet. Follow the instructions on our Get It page for installing the latest pre-release version of Entity Framework runtime.

The tooling for Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2015 Preview is available on the Microsoft Download Center.

 

Support

This is a preview of changes that will be available in the final release of EF6.1.2 and is designed to allow you to try out the new features and report any issues you encounter. Microsoft does not guarantee any level of support on this release.

If you need assistance using the new features, please post questions on Stack Overflow using the entity-framework tag.

 

Thank you to our contributors

We’d like to say thank you to folks from the community who have contributed to the 6.1.2 release so far:

  • BrandonDahler
  • ErikEJ
  • Honza Široký
  • martincostello
  • UnaiZorrilla

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2014
    "Query cache parameters can be configured from the app/web.configuration file" - thats already great. Now I only miss the "persistToFilesystem" option to save that cache so it survives an AppDomain-recycle-cycle...

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2014
    So cool that the community's changes are making it into the product!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2014
    Any ideas when EF6.1.2 RTM will be released?

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2014
    @NB - >> Our plan is to ship RTM sometime next month

  • Anonymous
    November 24, 2014
    @ErikEJ Great thanks!

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2014
    @NB - We're still on track for that too, no major bug reports on Beta 2.

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2014
    @Stephen - We agree!

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2014
    Failed update model from SQLServer 2008 with EF6.1.2 tools Beta 2 for VS14, while it's OK for beta1. gist.github.com/.../a43185d8ebade6cbad12

  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2014
    @SilverFox - Can you open an issue and include detailed steps to reproduce entityframework.codeplex.com/.../Create

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2015
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