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
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