ABP Framework and ABP Commercial 8.1 versions have been released today.

What's New With Version 8.1?

All the new features were explained in detail in the 8.1 RC Announcement Post, so there is no need to review them again. You can check it out for more details.

Getting Started with 8.1

Creating New Solutions

You can create a new solution with the ABP Framework version 8.1 by either using the abp new command or generating the CLI command on the get started page.

See the getting started document for more.

How to Upgrade an Existing Solution

Install/Update the ABP CLI

First, install the ABP CLI or upgrade it to the latest version.

If you haven't installed it yet:

dotnet tool install -g Volo.Abp.Cli

To update the existing CLI:

dotnet tool update -g Volo.Abp.Cli

Upgrading Existing Solutions with the ABP Update Command

ABP CLI provides a handy command to update all the ABP related NuGet and NPM packages in your solution with a single command:

abp update

Run this command in the root folder of your solution.

Migration Guides

There are a few breaking changes in this version that may affect your application.

Please see the following migration documents, if you are upgrading from v8.x or earlier:

• ABP Framework 8.0 to 8.1 Migration Guide

• ABP Commercial 8.0 to 8.1 Migration Guide

Community News

New ABP Community Posts

As always, exciting articles have been contributed by the ABP community. I will highlight some of them here:

• Adding a Module to an ABP project made simple by Bart Van Hoey

• Getting started with Abp Vue UI by Sajankumar Vijayan

• Liming Ma has created two new community articles:

  • How to share the cookies between subdomains

  • Using Testcontainers in ABP Unit Test

• Ahmed Tarek has created three new community articles:

  • Strategy Design Pattern In .NET C#

  • Mediator Design Pattern In .NET C#

  • SOLID: Liskov Substitution Principle Explained In .NET C#

Thanks to the ABP Community for all the content they have published. You can also post your ABP-related (text or video) content to the ABP Community.

New ABP Blog Posts

There are also some exciting blog posts written by the ABP team. You can see the following list for some of those articles:

• Announcement: Our New ABP.IO Unified Platform by Alper Ebicoglu

• Join ABP.IO at Modern .NET Web Day by Roo Xu

About the Next Version

The next feature version will be 8.2. You can follow the release planning here. Please submit an issue if you have any problems with this version.