# F# Weekly #22, 2018 – Released .NET Core 2.1 & F# Friday

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**Created:** [June 2, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-22-2018-released-net-core-2-1-f-friday/272 "2018-06-02T10:34:14Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Announcing .NET Core 2.1](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/30/announcing-net-core-2-1/)
- [What's new in C# 7.3](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-7-3)
- [What's planned for C# 8.0](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/docs/Language%20Feature%20Status.md)
- [Logary's F# Facade has been bumped to v4](https://github.com/logary/logary/pull/335)
- [F# Friday?](https://github.com/csharpfritz/Fritz.LiveStream/issues/59#issuecomment-392630223)
- [F# .NET Core programs versus Java](https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/fsharpcore-java.html)
- [F# .NET Core programs versus C# .NET Core](https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/fsharpcore-csharpcore.html)
- [FsConfig supports Discriminated Union Types](https://github.com/demystifyfp/FsConfig#discriminated-union-type)
- [Azure Functions: F# friendly/idiomatic API suggestions](https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension/issues/322)
- [NUnit should support #fsharp's async natively soon](https://github.com/nunit/nunit/issues/34#event-1654913090)

**Videos & Slides**
- [F# Friday! - Jeff Starts Learning F#](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/268107540)

> <https://twitter.com/brandewinder/status/1002589171003752449>

**Blogs**

- [Introducing fuget.org](http://praeclarum.org/post/174440517348/introducing-fugetorg) - Frank A. Krueger
- [Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1](https://www.ageofascent.com/2018/01/26/stack-trace-for-exceptions-in-dotnet-core-2.1/) - Ben Adams
- [The lost art of data abstraction](https://giacomociti.github.io/2018/05/26/The-lost-art-of-data-abstraction.html) - Giacomo Citi
- [Designing Data Objects in C# and F#](http://www.dotnetcurry.com/patterns-practices/1429/data-objects-csharp-fsharp) - Yacoub Massad
- [F# - railway-oriented-programming, my beef with seq\> to Result\<'a seq,'e\>](http://hardt.software/f-from-seq-result-a-e-to-result-a-seq-e/) - Daniel Hardt
- [The Expression Problem in .NET: The Duality of Object-Oriented and Functional Programming](https://code.camdenreslink.com/dev/the-expression-problem-in-dot-net/) - Camden Reslink
- [Writing .NET Core Global Tools with F#](https://gregshackles.com/writing-net-core-global-tools-with-fsharp/) - Greg Shackles
- [Magical domain modeling with F#](https://blog.scottlogic.com/2018/06/01/magical-domain-modelling-with-fsharp.html) - Chester Burbidge

**Open source projects**
- [jackfoxy/RandomBits](https://github.com/jackfoxy/RandomBits) - .Net Standard Libray or random numbers from bits streamed from the ANU Quantum Random Numbers Server
- [Zaid-Ajaj/Fable.SqlClient](https://github.com/zaid-ajaj/fable.sqlclient) - Fable Node client for Microsoft SQL Server, built around a node-mssql binding
- [deecewan/GenbankTypeProvider](https://github.com/deecewan/genbanktypeprovider) - A type provider for genetic sequences from Genbank

**New Releases**
- [System. Reactive 4.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Reactive/)
- [FSharpx.Collections 2.0.0-beta1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharpx.Collections/2.0.0-beta1)
- [FSharpx.Collections.Experimental 2.0.0-beta1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharpx.Collections.Experimental/2.0.0-beta1)
- [New version of Ionide](https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1001804822704787456)

> <https://twitter.com/praeclarum/status/1002247165182279680>

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – [#21, 2018](http://sergeytihon.com/2018/05/26/f-weekly-21-2018-net-core-2-1-f-relaxation-achieved-200/)