Entity Framework 6

As we design the features to be included in the Entity Framework 6 release the specifications will be made available on this page. These specifications will be working documents to allow input on the design of these new features. Specifications are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to provide conceptual overviews of the features with important design, experience, and implementation information included.

• Task-based Asynchronous Pattern support in EF
• Tooling Consolidation
• Shared Database Migrations (multiple contexts sharing one database) 
• EF Dependency Resolution
• Code-based Configuration
• Migrations History Table Customization
• Custom Code First Conventions

Here is some other information that is relevant to the EF6 release:

• Updating Applications to use EF6
• Rebuilding EF providers for EF6

Entity Framework 5

The EF5 release was largely completed prior to moving to CodePlex, these documents only include the final set of changes made in EF5.

• Making the Designer use EF5 NuGet Package
• Content Plan

Backlog

These documents are for features that have not yet been assigned a release.

• Schema Information