Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the first release candidate (RC1) 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. This is a great opportunity to start using EF Core 5.0 early while there is still time to fix remaining issues. We’re looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final release.

This release includes new features like many-to-many, property bags, event counters, required 1:1 dependents and the ability to intercept SaveChanges and listen to save events. It also includes improvements to model-building, migrations, and more. A more in-depth look at what’s new follows later in this blog post.

Prerequisites

EF Core 5.0 will not run on .NET Standard 2.0 platforms, including .NET Framework.

• The release candidates of EF Core 5.0 require .NET Standard 2.1.
• This means that EF Core 5.0 will run on .NET Core 3.1 and does not require .NET 5.

To summarize: EF Core 5.0 runs on platforms that support .NET Standard 2.1.

How to get EF Core 5.0 Release Candidate 1

EF Core is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can use the following command using the dotnet tool:

dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer --version 5.0.0-rc.1.20451.13

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