A few days before closing this book's editing process, Microsoft announced in the Connect() event the availability of this new version of .NET Core. This update also affects the related versions of the "Core" family: ASP.NET Core 1.1 and EF Core 1.1.
Obviously, it's not a version with many foundational changes, nor breaking changes, either. The focus of the development team was to broaden the OS targets, improve performance, and fix bugs, fundamentally.
Thus, and according to the official page in Github (https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/1.1/1.1.md) and the team's blog, the changes are mainly located around four different areas:
- Support for the following distributions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- CentOS 7.1+
- Debian 8.2+
- Fedora 23, 24*
- Linux Mint 17.1, 18*
- Oracle Linux 7.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 & 16.04
- Mac OS X 10.11, and 10.12
- Windows 7+ / Server 2012 R2+
- Windows Nano Server TP5 Linux Mint 18
- OpenSUSE 42.1
- MacOS 10.12 (also added to .NET Core 1.0)
- Windows Server 2016 (also added to .NET Core 1.0)
- Performance improvements, which had led to surpass the benchmarks obtained by Node and Nginx (reaching in ASP.NET Core 1,15 million requests/second)
- Several new features added to the API's and hundreds of bug fixes
- A serious update to the documentation, now, more accessible and comprehensive
As for ASP.NET Core 1.1, the documentation states that this release was designed around the following feature themes in order to help developers:
- Improved and cross-platform compatible site hosting capabilities when using a host other than Windows Internet Information Server (IIS)
- Support for developing with native Windows capabilities
- Compatibility, portability and performance of middleware and other MVC features throughout the UI framework
- Improved deployment and management experience of ASP.NET Core applications on Microsoft Azure
For additional details on the news offered by this version, you can read the article Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM, at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/11/16/announcing-asp-net-core-1-1/.