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@zhenlan zhenlan released this 16 Nov 16:24
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Release Notes

This is part of .NET Core 1.1 released on 11/16/2016 (Release Notes)

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What's New

Please refer to the table of Supported Features for a complete list of features that are supported by this release. Besides various bug fixes, here are a few highlights of improvements since 1.0 release.

  • Improved performance when calling a service using a synchronous channel during times of thread starvation in the threadpool.
  • WebSocket is now supported on Linux and OS X in addition to Windows.
  • Custom channels are now supported. It is now possible to create custom channel factories and channels.
  • Peer trust certificate authentication is now supported.
  • Windows authentication with explicit credentials is now supported by NetTcp transport in addition to HTTP transport.
  • Support is added for communicating with WCF service using identity headers of type SPN, UPN, DNS or X509Certificate.
  • ETW tracing is now supported. ETW events can be written to event log.

WCF Connected Service

The WCF Connected Service Preview is a Visual Studio 2015 extension to assist WCF client proxy generation of service reference in .NET Core & ASP.NET Core libraries/applications. It has been updated to support .NET Core 1.1 & ASP.NET Core 1.1.

Known Issues

  • Message level security is not supported (#3, #4, #8)
  • SpnEndpointIdentity are not supported (#11)
  • Windows authentication is not supported by NetTcp transport on UWP (#1235)
  • Windows authentication is not supported by Http transport on Linux and OS X (#946)

For a complete list of known issues, please see this issue list.