Hey, look at that, Marten 3.0 is live on Nuget. It didn’t turn out to be a huge release, but we needed to accommodate the Npgsql 4.* dependency and I felt like that was a breaking change, so here we go. You can see the full list of bug fixes and changes in this list. Besides the usage of Npgsql 4, our biggest change was making the default schema object creation mode to this:
AutoCreateSchemaObjects = AutoCreate.CreateOrUpdateMeaning that Marten even in its default mode will not drop any existing tables, even in development mode. You can still opt into the full “sure, I’ll blow away a table and start over if it’s incompatible” mode, but we felt like this option was safer after a few user problems were reported with the previous rules. See Schema Migrations and Patches for more information.
More exciting for me because I think it’s a mark of Marten becoming a real grownup open source project, Marten now has an official core contributor team who can review and approve pull requests:
- Babu Annamalai
- Oskar Dudycz
- Joona-Pekka
- And I’m still here too
All of them have been contributing to Marten for quite awhile and have been absolutely invaluable to supporting our community. Please join me in welcoming them all to the new team and looking forward to wherever Marten goes next.
The Shade Tree Developer 