.NET Core 1.1 RTM

Announcing .NET Core 1.1 | .NET Blog

• ".NET Core: Add distros and improve performance.
• ASP.NET Core: Improve Kestrel, Azure support and productivity.
• EF Core: Azure and SQL 2016 support."

News flash: ASP.NET Core 1.1 with Kestrel was ranked as the fastest mainstream fullstack web framework in the TechEmpower plaintext benchmark.

"The degree of improvement is absolutely astonishing, going from 2,120 requests per second on Mono in Round 11 to 1,822,366 requests per second on ASP.NET Core in Round 13."

.NET Core downloads

Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM | .NET Web Development and Tools Blog