Visual Studio 2017 15.5 official release

Visual Studio 2017 15.5 official release

Visual Studio is a cross-platform integrated development environment developed by Microsoft. Visual Studio 15.5.0 is officially released. This update includes major performance improvements, new features, and bug fixes. It supports application development in Windows, Windows 10 UWP, Windows Phone, Android, iOS, Azure, Web, and other environments ". In July March this year, Microsoft officially released Visual Studio 2017, which enhanced core functions such as development, debugging, testing, writing, and expansion, including new installation experience (reducing the minimum memory demand, and accelerating startup by 50%) built-in iOS simulator, extended C #7.0, Visual Basic 15, JavaScript, language, F #4.1 and other language support.

Yesterday, Visual Studio 2017 15.5 official version was released. This update mainly includes performance improvement, new features, and bug fixes. The major updates are as follows:

-Improved performance. the loading time of solutions for large C # and Visual Basic projects is almost halved, and the switching time between debugging and release is significantly shortened. adding, deleting, and renaming files and folders in the. NET Core project is faster, and the F # tool also has multiple performance improvements.

-Diagnosis; the Visual Studio debugger provides more functions by adding step-back debugging, subsequent debugging will automatically create a snapshot for your application at each breakpoint you execute and in the debugging procedure, so that you can return to the previous breakpoint to view its status.

-Docker and continuous deployment; Docker containers now support multi-level Docker files. The continuous delivery function allows you to easily configure Visual Studio Team Services. NET and ASP. set the CD of the NET Core project to Azure App Service.

-Private management; Visual Studio adds some features to help identify and manage database connection strings and Web Service keys.

At the same time, Visual Studio for Mac 7.3 has been officially released, with the following major updates:

-Supports the Visual Studio Test platform;

-Roslyn-based refactoring;

-Improved support for. NET Core;

-IOS APP automatic signature.

Released on: July 22, November 14, 2017-Visual Studio 2017 15.0 (26228.17)

Fixed Problems

. NET Core and ASP. NET Core security suggestions

Microsoft has released security recommendations for. NET Core and ASP. NET Core. For more information, see announcements in. NET Core and ASP. NET Core repositories. Note the following information:

A certificate in incorrect CVE-2017-8585 format may cause a denial of service :. NET Core 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 have security vulnerabilities. incorrectly formatted certificates or data in other ASN.1 formats may cause infinite loops on Linux and macOS, resulting in DOS. It is recommended that the system administrator update. NET Core to version 1.0.8, 1.1.5, or 2.0.1 during runtime. We recommend that you update the. NET Core SDK to version 2.0.3 or 1.1.5.

CVE-2017-8700 CORS bypass may cause information leakage: ASP. NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 Security Vulnerabilities, cross-source Resource Sharing (CORS) can be bypassed, resulting in information leakage.

CVE-2017-11879 open redirection may cause Elevation of Privilege: a security vulnerability exists in ASP. NET Core 2.0, where open redirection may cause Elevation of Privilege.

CVE-2017-11770 Denial Of Service Vulnerability: ASP.. NET Core 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 have security vulnerabilities. windows Http. an incorrect request in Sys may cause a denial of service.

New projects created using ASP. NET Core 1.0 and ASP. NET Core 1.1 now use packages that contain the above security updates. For existing projects, you can use the manage NuGet package dialog box to update the package to a newer version.