Entity Frame Work Features " Ver. 5 to Ver. 6.1"

Entity Framework Changes from 4.0 to 6.1

see how much its changed from start to now.

EF 6.1

This release is currently being worked on, we'll add more feature specifications as we progress.

• 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

Information is taken from https://entityframework.codeplex.com