EF7

We are currently working on the EF7 release at the same time as ongoing minor and patch updates to EF6.x.

• New Platforms, New Data Stores

EF 6.1

These are the specs created for the EF6.1 release. Some smaller features/changes do not have specs, visit the EF Version History page for a complete list of features/changes.

• Handling of Transaction Commit Failures
• Tooling consolidation
• Code First Annotations
• IndexAttribute
• Public Mapping API
• Interceptors in web/app.config and DatabaseLogger

EF 6

These are the specs created for the EF6 release. Some smaller features/changes do not have specs, visit the EF Version History page for a complete list of features/changes.

• Rebuilding EF Providers for EF6
• Updating Applications to use EF6
• EF Tools: adding EF6 support & enabling out-of-band releases
• Async Query and Save
• Connection Resiliency
• Code-Based Configuration 
• Dependency Resolution
• Interception/SQL logging
• Custom implementations of Equals or GetHashCode on entity classes
• Custom Code First Conventions
• Code First Mapping to Insert/Update/Delete Stored Procedures
• Configurable Migrations History Table
• Multiple Contexts per Database

EF 5

The EF5 release was largely completed prior to moving to CodePlex, these specs only include the final set of changes made in EF5. Visit the EF Version History page for a complete list of features/changes.

• Making the Designer use EF5 NuGet Package
• Content Plan

Backlog

These documents are for features that have not yet been assigned a release.

• Schema Information
• Implicit boundaries in LINQ to Entities (client-side evaluation)