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| 1 | +# ABP Framework v2.7.0 Has Been Released! |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +The **ABP Framework** & and the **ABP Commercial** v2.7 have been released. We hadn't created blog post for the 2.4, 2.4 and 2.6 releases, so this post will also cover **what's new** with these releases and **what we've done** in the last 2 months. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +## About the Release Cycle & Development |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +Reminding that we had started to release a new minor feature version **in every two weeks**, generally on Thursdays. Our goal is to deliver new features as soon as possible. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +We've completed & merged hundreds of issues and pull requests with **1,300+ commits** in the last 7-8 weeks, only for the ABP Framework repository. Daily commit counts are constantly increasing: |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +ABP.IO Platform is rapidly growing and we are getting more and more contributions from the community. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## What's New? |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +In the last few releases, we've mostly focused on providing ways to extend existing modules when you use them as NuGet/NPM Packages. We've also added some useful features and some helpful guides. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +### Object Extending System |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +The Object Extending System allows module developers to create extensible modules and allows application developers to customize and extend a module easily. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +For example, you can add two extension properties to the user entity of the identity module: |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +````csharp |
| 26 | +ObjectExtensionManager.Instance |
| 27 | + .AddOrUpdate<IdentityUser>(options => |
| 28 | + { |
| 29 | + options.AddOrUpdateProperty<string>("SocialSecurityNumber"); |
| 30 | + options.AddOrUpdateProperty<bool>("IsSuperUser"); |
| 31 | + } |
| 32 | + ); |
| 33 | +```` |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +It is easy to define validation rules for the properties: |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +````csharp |
| 38 | +ObjectExtensionManager.Instance |
| 39 | + .AddOrUpdateProperty<IdentityUserCreateDto, string>( |
| 40 | + "SocialSecurityNumber", |
| 41 | + options => |
| 42 | + { |
| 43 | + options.Attributes.Add(new RequiredAttribute()); |
| 44 | + options.Attributes.Add( |
| 45 | + new StringLengthAttribute(32) { |
| 46 | + MinimumLength = 6 |
| 47 | + } |
| 48 | + ); |
| 49 | + }); |
| 50 | +```` |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +You can even write custom code to validate the property. It automatically works for the objects those are parameters of an application service, controller or a page. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +While extension properties of an entity are normally stored in a single JSON formatted field in the database table, you can easily configure to store a property as a table field using the EF Core mapping: |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +````csharp |
| 57 | +ObjectExtensionManager.Instance |
| 58 | + .AddOrUpdateProperty<IdentityUser, string>( |
| 59 | + "SocialSecurityNumber", |
| 60 | + options => |
| 61 | + { |
| 62 | + options.MapEfCore(b => b.HasMaxLength(32)); |
| 63 | + } |
| 64 | + ); |
| 65 | +```` |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +See the [Object Extensions document](https://docs.abp.io/en/abp/latest/Object-Extensions) for details about this system. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +### Guide: Customizing the Existing Modules |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +[Customizing the Existing Modules guide](https://docs.abp.io/en/abp/latest/Customizing-Application-Modules-Guide) explains all the ways of extending/customizing a reusable module including [entities](https://docs.abp.io/en/abp/latest/Customizing-Application-Modules-Extending-Entities), [services](https://docs.abp.io/en/abp/latest/Customizing-Application-Modules-Overriding-Services) and the [user interface](https://docs.abp.io/en/abp/latest/Customizing-Application-Modules-Overriding-User-Interface). |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +### Guide: EF Core Database Migrations |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +TODO |
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