# F# Weekly #35, 2020 – F# 5 update & Fantomas 4.0

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**Category:** General\
**Tags:** news\
**Created:** [August 28, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-35-2020-f-5-update-fantomas-4-0/1429 "2020-08-28T16:43:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-35-2020-f-5-update-fantomas-4-0/1429/1 "2020-08-28T16:43:31Z")

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Welcome to F# Weekly,  
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [F# 5 update for August](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/f-5-update-for-august/)
- [Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 8](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0-preview-8/)
- [New C# Source Generator Samples](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/new-c-source-generator-samples/)
- [Automatically find latent bugs in your code with .NET 5](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/automatically-find-latent-bugs-in-your-code-with-net-5/)
- [August ML.NET API and Tooling Updates](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/august-ml-net-api-and-tooling-updates/)
- [ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 8](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-net-5-preview-8/)
- [Are you GLAD?](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/are-you-glad/) by Maoni
- FSSF: [Suggestions to make the forum more active and popular](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/suggestions-to-make-the-forum-more-active-and-popular/1412)
- [TensorFlow for .NET Release Candidate](https://ml.blogs.losttech.software/TF-1.15-Release-Candidate/)

> <https://twitter.com/theimowski/status/1299057070201884675>

**Videos and Slides**

- [F# as a Better Python - Phillip Carter - NDC Oslo 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QnbV6CAWXc&feature=youtu.be)
- [Desktop Community Standup - August 27th 2020 - WinForms Innovations & XAML tooling updates](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-NdyJVBf2Y)
- [ASP.NET Community Standup - Aug 25th 2020 - Razor Tooling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nci0ZMoGcLM)
- [Machine Learning Community Standup - August 26th 2020 - Hello World!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gjMrZ9XbRQ)

**Blogs**

- [Fantomas v4 unleashed](https://axxes.com/en/net/fantomas-v4-unleashed/) - Florian Verdonck
- [Keep Up to Date With F#’s Evolution On The Web](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/keep-up-to-date-with-fs-evolution-on-the-web/) - Isaac Abraham
- [Performance best practices in C#](https://medium.com/@kevingosse/performance-best-practices-in-c-b85a47bdd93a) - Kevin Gosse
- [Operation based CRDTs: protocol](https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/operation-based-crdts-protocol/) - Bartosz Sypytkowski
- [What is RepoDb?](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/repodb-on-f/) - Alican Demirtas

**F# vNext**

- [Switch FSharp.Core.Unit tests to use Xunit](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9992)
- [F# Dugnad Community Cleanup Session: 25th August 2020](https://github.com/fsharp/fsfoundation/issues/840)
- F# Language Suggestions 
  - ["Most concrete" tiebreaker for generic overloads](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/905)
  - [Consuming classes and Records with init only properties of .net 5.0](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/904)
  - [Add To Record Codegen CLI shape to allow C# 9.0 `with` keyword interop](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/903)
  - [Add `Deconstruct` to Discriminated Unions codegen for smoother C# consumption](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/902)

**GitHub projects**

> <https://twitter.com/verdonckflorian/status/1298894036653178882>

- [fsprojects/awesome-fsharp](https://github.com/fsprojects/awesome-fsharp) - A curated list of awesome F# frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
- [Zaid-Ajaj/Fable.SimpleHttp](https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/Fable.SimpleHttp) - Http with Fable, made simple.

**New Releases**

- [Fantomas 4.0.0](https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas/releases/tag/v4.0.0)
- [SAFE.Template 2.0.0](https://twitter.com/theimowski/status/1299057070201884675)
- [packet 6.0.0 alpha now support net5.0](https://twitter.com/thinkb4coding/status/1297124879096066053)
- [Farmer v0.24](https://twitter.com/isaac_abraham/status/1297500931119108096)
- [Fabulous 0.57](https://twitter.com/Tim_Lariviere/status/1297771413131218944) with Xamarin.Forms 4.8
- [YARP preview 4](https://github.com/microsoft/reverse-proxy/releases/tag/v1.0.0-preview4)

> <https://twitter.com/mike_pendon/status/1299273766694989825>

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