.NET 8 support

In this release we've added support for .NET 8, which is currently in preview. Note that we've also dropped our support for .NET Core 3.1 in this release as that is no longer supported by Microsoft. If you're still using .NET Core 3.1 we recommend you stay on an older version of MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj.

As part of this release we've also updated some of our third-party dependencies and we've introduced a capability in the SDK that will allow Visual Studio extensions to check if a project is using this SDK.

Please see all changes below:

What's Changed

• Bump Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlManagementObjects from 170.11.0 to 170.13.0 by @dependabot in #393
• Bump Microsoft.SqlServer.DacFx from 161.6374.0 to 161.8089.0 by @dependabot in #399
• Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.4.1 to 17.5.0 by @dependabot in #401
• Add Capability to enable check via Visual Studio SDK by @ErikEJ in #406
• Remove support for .NET Core 3.1 by @ErikEJ in #408
• Call out NS2.0 dependency in README by @IanKemp in #411
• Try .NET 8 support by @ErikEJ in #413
• Bump Shouldly from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0 by @dependabot in #416
• Bump Shouldly from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 by @dependabot in #418
• Bump Nerdbank.GitVersioning from 3.5.119 to 3.6.128 by @dependabot in #421
• Bump Nerdbank.GitVersioning from 3.6.128 to 3.6.132 by @dependabot in #424
• Bump Microsoft.SqlServer.DacFx from 161.8089.0 to 162.0.52 by @dependabot in #425

New Contributors

• @IanKemp made their first contribution in #411

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0