ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 now available

Daniel

May 30th, 2018

Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. Get started with ASP.NET Core 2.1 today!

New features in this release include:

Check out What's New in ASP.NET Core 2.1 in the ASP.NET Core docs to learn more about these features. For a complete list of all the changes in this release, see the release notes.

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 is available with .NET Core 2.1.0 along with Entity Framework Core 2.1.0, which you can read about in the corresponding blog posts.

Get started

You can Get started with ASP.NET Core 2.1 in 10 minutes by installing the latest .NET Core SDK and latest Visual Studio release. Then follow the tutorial instructions to create your first ASP.NET Core app.

Migrating an ASP.NET Core 2.0.x project to 2.1.0

For instructions on migrating to ASP.NET Core 2.1 see Migrating from ASP.NET Core 2.0.x project to 2.1.0 in ASP.NET Core documentation.

Deploy to Azure

ASP.NET Core 2.1 is available to be used on Azure App Service today. Publish your ASP.NET Core 2.1 app to Azure App Service.

For apps that use ASP.NET Core SignalR, configure your app to use the new Azure SignalR Service (public preview) to scale the real-time capabilities of your app.

Give feedback

We hope you enjoy using the new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core 2.1.0. If you have any questions or find any issues with this release let us know by filing issues on GitHub.

Thanks for using ASP.NET Core!