Some news of week 42

dotnet

• Tune in for .NET Conf 2021 and the launch of.NET 6! https://www.dotnetconf.net

  • Day 1 - November 9: Day one is all about the big news, .NET 6! Join the .NET team on all the new things you can do with the latest release.
  • Day 2 - November 10: Day two is where we dive deeper into all the things you can do with .NET and our 24 hour broadcast begins with community speakers around the world.
  • Day 3 - November 11: Day three continues our all day and night broadcast with speakers around the world in their own time zones.
    

• Announcing .NET 6 Release Candidate 2:

  • C# 10
  • Record structs
  • Global usings
  • File-scoped namespace declaration
  • const and interpolated strings
  • Extended property patterns
  • .NET SDK: C# project templates modernized
  • Console template
  • Web templates
  • Windows Forms templates
  • Implicit usings
  • Nullable
  • string() args
  • Defining regular methods
  • macOS and Windows Arm64 Update

Read more: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-release-candidate-2/

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Release Candidate 2:
  • Native dependencies support for Blazor WebAssembly apps
  • Using native code from a Blazor WebAssembly app
  • Using libraries with native dependencies
  • Minimal API updates
  • OpenAPI
  • Source Code Analysis
  • Breaking Changes [APIs Renames]

Read more: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-net-6-rc-2/

• New LINQ methods in .NET 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0VwTzQ2gUQ

  • MinBy method
  • Maxby method
  • Chunk method
    

• EF core 6.0 includes support for SQL server temporal tables: https://jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2021/10/ef-core-60-introducing-support-for-sql.html
  

.NET MAUI

• Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 9 is available with .NET RC2 and in the preview channel of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 5:
  • Updated Controls
  • Borders, Corners, and Shadows – Oh my!
  • Quick Android Startup
  • Ecosystem Controls

Read more: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-maui-preview-9/

Kubernetes

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021: During last week we could enjoy KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021. All events were record and will be available next month in the CNCF YouTube channel. You can check all sessions here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/schedule/
  

• Learn how to easily setup your Kubernetes limits and requests https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-limits-requests/
  

• Dapr release 1.4.3: https://github.com/dapr/dapr/releases/tag/v1.4.3

  • Fixes: Problem Subscription v1alpha1 applied in v2alpha1 (#3731)
    

• Helm release 3.7.1: https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.7.1

  • What’s next:
    • 3.6.4 will contain only bug fixes and is planned for release on November 10, 2021.
    • 3.8.0 is the next feature release and will be released on January 12, 2022.
  • Changelog
    • Bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.5.4 to 1.5.7 1d11fcb (dependabot[bot])
    • changes to support any mediatype for layers on download 52fbd4e (LochanRn)
    • docs: fix typo Charts.yaml 2aacc5f (Alexey Igrychev)
    • actually skip unverifiable files 96cdab4 (Fabian Jucker)
    • Fix default registry config path of oci protocol provider 57ecc25 (Kai Takac)
      

Others

• Javi Santana - Co-founder @Tinybirdco, ex @CARTO CTO has been working with data for 20+ years, he is sharing 40 things that he learned about data. You can follow them in this post: https://javisantana.com/fastdata/40-things-I-learned-about-data.html

  He empezado a recopilar las 40 cosas que he aprendido en estos años sobre datos. Iré poniendo una por día
  => https://t.co/vRc6DfwSN5

  — javi santana (@javisantana) September 28, 2021