ABP.IO Platform 7.1 RC Has Been Published

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Today, we are happy to release the ABP Framework and ABP Commercial version 7.1 RC (Release Candidate). This blog post introduces the new features and important changes in this new version.

Try this version and provide feedback for a more stable version of ABP v7.1! Thanks to all of you.

Get Started with the 7.1 RC

Follow the steps below to try version 7.1.0 RC today:

1. Upgrade the ABP CLI to version 7.1.0-rc.1 using a command line terminal:

dotnet tool update Volo.Abp.Cli -g --version 7.1.0-rc.1

or install it if you haven't before:

dotnet tool install Volo.Abp.Cli -g --version 7.1.0-rc.1

2. Create a new application with the --preview option:

abp new BookStore --preview

See the ABP CLI documentation for all the available options.

You can also use the Get Started page to generate a CLI command to create a new application.

You can use any IDE that supports .NET 7.x, like Visual Studio 2022.

Migration Guide

This version comes with a breaking change, so please see the following migration guide if you are upgrading from v7.0:

• ABP Framework 7.0 to 7.1 Migration Guide

Note: Entity Framework developers may need to add a new code-first database migration to their projects since we made some improvements to the existing entities of some application modules.

What's New with ABP Framework 7.1?

In this section, I will introduce some major features released in this version. In addition to these features, so many enhancements have been made in this version too.

Here is a brief list of the titles explained in the next sections:

• Blazor WASM option added to Application Single Layer Startup Template
• Introducing the IHasEntityVersion interface and EntitySynchronizer base class
• Introducing the DeleteDirectAsync method for the IRepository interface
• Introducing the IAbpHostEnvironment interface
• Improvements on the eShopOnAbp project
• Others

Blazor WASM option added to Application Single Layer Startup Template

We've created the Application (Single Layer) Startup Template in v5.2 with three UI types: Angular, Blazor Server, and MVC. At the moment, we didn't provide a UI option for Blazor, because it required 3 projects at least (server-side, client-side, and shared library between these two projects).

In this version, we've added the Blazor WASM option to the Application (Single Layer) Startup Template. It still contains three projects (blazor, host, and contracts) but hosted by a single host project.

You can use the following CLI command to create an app-nolayers template with the Blazor UI as the UI option:

abp new TodoApp -t app-nolayers -u blazor --version 7.1.0-rc.1

You can check the Quick Start documentation for a quick start with this template.

Introducing the IHasEntityVersion interface and EntitySynchronizer base class

Entity synchronization is an important concept, especially in distributed applications and module development. If we have an entity that is related to other modules, we need to align/sync their data once the entity changes and versioning entity changes can also be good, so we can know whether they're synced or not.

In this version, @gdlcf88 made a great contribution to the ABP Framework and introduced the IHasEntityVersion interface which adds auto-versioning to entity classes and EntitySynchronizer base class to automatically sync an entity's properties from a source entity.

You can check the issue and documentation from the following links for more info:

• Issue: Entity synchronizers and a new EntityVersion audit property
• Versioning Entities
• Distributed Event Bus - Entity Synchronizer

Note: The entities of some modules from the ABP Framework have implemented the IHasEntityVersion interface. Therefore, if you are upgrading your application from an earlier version, you need to create a new migration and apply it to your database.

Introducing the DeleteDirectAsync method for the IRepository interface

EF 7 introduced a new ExecuteDeleteAsync method that deletes entities without involving the change tracker into the process. Therefore, it's much faster.

We've added the DeleteDirectAsync method to the IRepository<> interface to take the full power of EF 7. It deletes all entities that fit the given predicate. It directly deletes entities from the database, without fetching them. Therefore, some features (like soft-delete, multi-tenancy, and audit logging) won't work, so use this method carefully when you need it. And use the DeleteAsync method if you need those features.

Introducing the IAbpHostEnvironment interface

Sometimes, while creating an application, we need to get the current hosting environment and take actions according to that. In such cases, we can use some services such as IWebHostEnvironment or IWebAssemblyHostEnvironment provided by .NET, in the final application.

However, we can not use these services in a class library, which is used by the final application. ABP Framework provides the IAbpHostEnvironment service, which allows you to get the current environment name whenever you want. IAbpHostEnvironment is used by the ABP Framework in several places to perform specific actions by the environment. For example, ABP Framework reduces the cache duration on the Development environment for some services.

Usage:

public class MyService
{
    private readonly IAbpHostEnvironment _abpHostEnvironment;
    
    public MyService(IAbpHostEnvironment abpHostEnvironment)
    {
        _abpHostEnvironment = abpHostEnvironment;
    }

    public void MyMethod()
    {
        //getting the current environment name
        var environmentName = _abpHostEnvironment.EnvironmentName;

        //check for the current environment
        if (_abpHostEnvironment.IsDevelopment()) { /* ... */ } 
    }
}

You can inject the IAbpHostEnvironment into your service and get the current environment by using its EnvironmentName property. You can also check the current environment by using its extension methods such as IsDevelopment().

Check the ABP Application Startup documentation for more information.

Improvements on the eShopOnAbp project

K8s and Docker configurations have been made within this version (Dockerfiles and helm-charts have been added and image build scripts have been updated). See #14083 for more information.

Others

• Referral Links have been added to the CMS Kit Comment Feature (optional). You can specify common referral links (such as "nofollow" and "noreferrer") for links in the comments. See #15458 for more information.
• ReCaptcha verification has been added to the CMS Kit Comment Feature (optional). You can enable ReCaptcha support to enable protection against bots. See the documentation for more information.
• In the development environment, it is a must to reduce cache durations for some points. We typically don't have to invalidate the cache manually or wait on it for a certain time to be invalidated. For that purpose, we have reduced the cache durations for some points on the development environment. See #14842 for more information.

What's New with ABP Commercial 7.1?

We've also worked on ABP Commercial to align the new features and changes made in the ABP Framework. The following sections introduce a few new features coming with ABP Commercial 7.1.

Blazor WASM option added to Application Single Layer Pro Startup Template

The Application (Single Layer) Startup Template with Blazor UI is also available for ABP Commercial customers with this version as explained above.

You can use the following CLI command to create an app-nolayers-pro template with Blazor UI as the UI option:

abp new TodoApp -t app-nolayers-pro -u blazor --version 7.1.0-rc.1

You can also create an app-nolayers-pro template with Blazor UI via ABP Suite:

Suite - MAUI Blazor Code Generation

We provided a new UI option "MAUI Blazor" for the app-pro template in the previous version and it's possible to create a maui-blazor application with both ABP CLI and ABP Suite.

You can create an app-pro template with the MAUI Blazor as the UI option with the following ABP CLI command:

abp new Acme.BookStore -t app-pro -u maui-blazor

In this version, we implemented the code generation for MAUI Blazor. You can create and generate CRUD pages for this new UI option as you do in other UI types.

Note: MAUI Blazor is currently only available with the app-pro template.

SaaS Module - Allowing entering a username while impersonating the tenant

In the previous versions, we were able to impersonate a tenant from the SaaS Module's Tenant Management UI. There was a constraint in this approach, which forced us to only impersonate the "admin" user. However, the tenant might change the admin user's username, or we may want to impersonate another user of the tenant.

Thus, with this version, we decided to allow the impersonation of the tenant by the specified username.

You can click on the "Login with this tenant" action button:

Then, Specify the admin name of the tenant:

Community News

New ABP Community Posts

• Sergei Gorlovetsky has created two new community articles:
  • Why ABP Framework is one of the best tools for migration from legacy MS Access systems to latest Web app
  • ABP Framework — 5 steps Go No Go Decision Tree
• Onur Pıçakcı has created his first ABP community article that explains how to contribute to ABP Framework. You can read it 👉 here.
• Maliming has created a new community article to show how to convert create/edit modals to a page. You can read it 👉 here.

We thank you all. We thank all the authors for contributing to the ABP Community platform.

Volosoft Attended NDC London 2023

Core team members of the ABP Framework, Halil Ibrahim Kalkan and Alper Ebicoglu attended NDC London 2023 from the 23rd to the 27th of January.

You can check this post to see our takeaways from the NDC London 2023.

Community Talks 2023.1: LeptonX Customization

In this episode of ABP Community Talks, 2023.1; we'll talk about LeptonX Customization. We will dive into the details and show you how to customize the LeptonX Theme with examples.

The event will be live on Thursday, February 28, 2023 (17:00 UTC).

Register to listen and ask your questions now 👉 https://kommunity.com/volosoft/events/abp-community-talks-20231-leptonx-customization-03f9fd8c.

Conclusion

This version comes with some new features and a lot of enhancements to the existing features. You can see the Road Map documentation to learn about the release schedule and planned features for the next releases. Please try the ABP v7.1 RC and provide feedback to help us release a more stable version.

Thanks for being a part of this community!