EF Core 9 release checklist

[AndriySvyryd]

RC1 (Code-complete)

• API Review
• Make sure docs for services state the correct lifetime

RC2

• Exception message review #7201
• (@AndriySvyryd) Run SqlServer and Cosmos tests against Azure
• Make sure we depend on LTS SqlClient
• (@cincuranet) Make sure we depend on a new SQLite version that supports .NET 9 WASM #34575
• Make sure we depend on non-preview Mono.TextTemplating
• Make sure we depend on the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces that corresponds to our TFM (e.g. 4.8.0 for net8.0)
• Make sure we depend on the Microsoft.Extensions.* versions that correspond to our TFM so that the shared framework is used when the app targets that TFM
• (@SamMonoRT) Review all of our (transitive) dependencies to make sure that the support policies are aligned
• (@AndriySvyryd) Update threat model, review warnings from CG, NuGet Audit and other validation tools

GA

• Remove tools workaround (or make it conditional on release type) e9b942b#diff-50e91c82311ea26f2a73202525dfdf2b0a89c178ee666b2bf3ad4c84ac4c06dc
• (@roji) Move issues from 9.0.0 preview milestones to 9.0.0 after rc.2 #32293
• Code cleanup
• Verify changes from servicing branches were merged correctly (especially MSRC if any)
• Verify all quirks removed
• (@AndriySvyryd) Setup staging branches for servicing
• (@AndriySvyryd) Update inter-branch and internal mirroring flows
• Update What's New and breaking changes
• Update the ToC to point to the new What's New page
• (@roji) Merge Docs to live
• (@SamMonoRT) Publish API docs
  • Including the new Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tasks assembly
  • Also for [Microsoft.Data.Sqlite](https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.ApiDocs). Looks like we missed this in 8
• Update references to the new API in EF 9 with links to the API documentation EntityFramework.Docs#4837

Post-release

• (@AndriySvyryd) Delete preview branches and branches for releases that are no longer supported (create tags)
• (@AndriySvyryd) Remove obsolete members in the next release (only the ones made obsolete in an LTS release) Remove obsolete attributes at the start of EF10 #34467
• Make sure to target only the latest TFM to make the above 2 items more manageable and simplify the support policy for our users
• Update .NET SDK version
• Create repo survey issue
• Create a checklist for 10

[bricelam]

• Make sure you depend on a SQLite version that supports .NET 9 Wasm

[AndriySvyryd]

@bricelam That sounds like a feature request unless we already support Wasm. Can you provide more context?

[bricelam]

In the past, I’ve coordinated with Eric to update the wasm builds of SQLitePCLRaw. They need to be updated every release since Emscripten isn’t backwards compatible with old binaries.