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In this blog post, we'll look at the challenge of whitelisting IP addresses when executing EF Core Migration Bundles from a GitHub Workflow. We'll look at several options and explore the pros and cons of each. In particular, how to deal with the challenge of dealing with the possible ~4000 IP ranges that GitHub Runners can use.

This blog post delves into the latest updates in Entity Framework Core ORM (EF Core 8), emphasizing its new features and performance improvements. Key highlights include Complex Types for more expressive models, Unmapped Queries for running SQL without an ORM setup, Primitive Collections to store lists of primitives without extra tables, and support for `DateOnly` and `TimeOnly` types. EF Core 8 also enhances Bulk Updates & Deletes, offers advanced JSON Column capabilities, introduces Hierarchy IDs for efficient hierarchical data management, and implements Sentinel Values for better control over database defaults.

The Entity Framework Sandbox Template provides a dotnet CLI command to get you up and running fast with EF7, several entities, and a populated database.