When is ASP.NET Core 1.0 (ASP.NET 5 / vNext) scheduled for release?

Solution 1:

Update for July 1, 2016

ASP.NET Core 1.0, Entity Framework 1.0, and .NET Core 1.0 were all released on June 27, 2016.

• Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.0
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.0
• Announcing .NET Core 1.0

Update for January 19, 2016

• ASP.NET 5 is now called ASP.NET Core 1.0.
• .NET Core 5 is now .NET Core 1.0.
• Entity Framework 7 is now Entity Framework Core 1.0 or EF Core 1.0 colloquially.

For more information see Scott Hanselman's blog about the change.

Update for July 2, 2015

In the ASP.NET Community Standup live meeting Damian Edwards discussed some updates to the plans for ASP.NET 5's release. You can read the main points and watch the recording on a recent team blog post.

This tentative plan was described:

• Beta 6 - end of July 2015
• Beta 7 - end of August 2015
• Beta 8 - end of September 2015
• Release Candidate - late fall 2015 - Damian warns that this could be completely inaccurate as it is 6 months into the future.

So, as with all schedules/plans, please take this as a plan, not specific dates.

Original post from December 19, 2014

We (Microsoft) generally don't give specific dates. However, I can say that ASP.NET 5 ("vNext") is being released as part of Visual Studio 2015, and so that means it's being released in 2015 (big surprise!). It is reasonably safe to assume a release in the early half of 2015.

As you correctly noted, the GitHub repos for ASP.NET 5 now specify the RC milestone, which indicates that our main focus right now is on stability, and that the feature set for the RTM release is largely there. There are still features and designs being finalized, and anyone can of course see those going on in the individual repos.

Solution 2:

According to Roadmap on GitHub:

ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Previously called ASP.NET 5) Schedule and Roadmap

Below is the schedule and roadmap for ASP.NET Core 1.0. Please note that these dates and feature plans are all subject to change. As with any project of this size it is difficult to predict exactly when things will land. Even so, we think it's important to be as open and transparent as possible about our plans so that our users can have the right expectations and create their plans accordingly.

Schedule

Milestone                     Release Date
Beta6                           27 Jul 2015    
Beta7                           24 Aug 2015   
Beta8                           21 Sep 2015   
RC1                             Nov 2015        
RC2 (Tools Preview 1) mid-May 2016
1.0.0                            late-June 2016

The November release candidate (RC1) will be a supported and production ready cross-platform release. Depending on feedback from RC1 we will ship additional release candidates as necessary.

Milestone Themes

Beta6 - Localization, Servicing, .NET 4.6 support, and more

In Beta6 we are working on supporting localization in the new request pipeline. We are also working to enable patching and servicing of the runtime including adding support for strong-naming assemblies. In Beta6 you will be able to target .NET 4.6 using the .NET Execution Environment (DNX). We will do work on response buffering and caching (via HTTP.SYS on Windows) and add distributed caching support via SQL Server.

Planned features: Runtime, MVC, Razor, Identity

Beta7 - Cross-platform

The primary focus for Beta7 will be to enable cross-platform development on .NET Core. This includes shipping the .NET Core based .NET Execution Environments for Mac and Linux, enabling the basic developer workflows and also setting up the acquisition story.

Planned features: Runtime, MVC, Razor, Identity

Beta8 - Feature complete!

Beta8 is the last major feature milestone planned before moving into a stabilization phase for RC1. We will work on enabling complete end-to-end experiences in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. We expect cross-platform .NET Core to be feature complete at this point.

Planned features: Runtime, MVC, Razor, Identity

RC1 - Stabilization

The focus for RC1 will be on polishing existing features, responding to customer feedback and improving performance and reliability. The goal is for RC1 to be a stable and production ready release.

RC2 - Move to .NET Core CLI and .NET Platform Standard

For RC2 we will move ASP.NET Core 1.0 to be based on the new cross-platform .NET Core command line toolchain.

Future Work

The following features unfortunately won't make it into the initial RTM release. We are tentatively planning on shipping them in the initial feature release after RTM, during Q3^* of 2016:

• Visual Basic support
• SignalR 3
• Web Pages 4

^* References to yearly quarters (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) are calendar-based