EF Core 5.0 Preview 2

EF Core 5.0 preview 2 is on NuGet now!

For EF Core, preview 2 contains only a few new features over preview 1:

• Use a C# attribute to specify a property backing field
• Complete discriminator mapping
• Performance improvements in Microsoft.Data.Sqlite

All issues fixed in preview 2

The .NET Blog announcement has installation instructions and full details.

Remember that all these preview 1 features are also in preview 2:

• Simple Logging
• Simple way to get generated SQL
• Use a C# attribute to indicate that an entity has no key
• Connection or connection string can be changed on initialized DbContext
• Change-tracking proxies
• Enhanced debug views
• Improved handling of database null semantics
• Indexer properties
• Generation of check constraints for enum mappings
• Cosmos optimistic concurrency with ETags
• Query translations for more DateTime constructs
• Query translations for more byte array constructs
• Query translation for Reverse
• Query translation for bitwise operators
• Query translation for strings on Cosmos

All issues fixed in preview 1