Yesterday, we are releasing the October 2020 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework.
Quality and Reliability
This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.
SQL
Addressed an issue in System.Data.SqlClient where querying string columns would fail if the database had a Kazakh collation.
Developing games is multi-disciplined compared to developing business apps and services. Games need design skills spanning UI, audio, gameplay, and art direction. It also requires engineering skills for graphics, gameplay, audio, cloud services, and develops. Sometimes you need to get low level and play around with hardware registries in assembly to optimize performance for a specific device.
Today, we are launching .NET Live TV, your one stop shop for all .NET and Visual Studio live streams across Twitch and YouTube. We are always looking for new ways to bring great content to the developer community and innovate in ways to interact with you in real-time.
Today, we are republishing the July 2020 Security Only Updates for .NET Framework to resolve a known issue that affected the original release. You should install this version (V2) of the update as part of your normal security routine.
Security
CVE-2020-1147– .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET Framework when the software fails to check the source markup of XML file input.
Today, we are releasing the October 2020 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework.
Security
CVE-2020-16937– .NET Framework Information Disclosure Vulnerability
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the .NET Framework improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could disclose contents of an affected system’s memory.
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core October 2020 Update. These updates contains reliability and other non-security fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages.
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the second release candidate (RC2) of EF Core 5.0. This is
a feature complete release candidate of EF Core 5.0 and ships with a "go live" license. You are supported
using it in production.
Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the last of two RCs before the official release in November. RC2 is a “go live” release; you are supported using it in production.
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) is like DevOps for the machine learning lifecycle. This includes things like model deployment & management and data tracking, which help with productionizing machine learning models.
Through the survey below, we’d love to get feedback on your current DevOps practices as well as your prospective usage of MLOps in .NET.
We’ve launched a new Game Development with .NET section on our site. It’s designed for current .NET developers to explore all the choices available to them when developing games. It’s also designed for new developers trying to learn how to use .NET by making games.
