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Done in 6.0

• SQL Server temporal tables #4693
• Allow defining column order via [ColumnAttribute.Order] when creating tables #10059
• Migrations Bundles #19693
• Split query for non-navigation collections #21234
• Detect simple join tables in reverse engineering and create many-to-many relationships #22475
• Mechanism/API to specify a default conversion for any property of a given type in the model #10784

Done in 7.0

• ExecuteUpdate/Delete (AKA bulk update, without loading data into memory) #795
• Relational: TPC inheritance mapping pattern #3170
• Map inserts, updates, and deletes (CUD operations) to stored procedures #245
• Map JSON values stored in database to EF properties #4021

Done in 8.0

• Support raw SQL queries without defining an entity type for the result #10753
• Implement complex types (value objects) #13947
• Use C# structs or classes as value objects #9906

Future release

• Merge/Upsert/AddOrUpdate support #4526
• Allow FKs to exist in the model but avoid creating them in the database #15854
• Allow mapping a key or index over more than one column across owned entity types. #11336
• Add relational JSON mapping support for complex types #31252
• Squash migrations #2174
• Update model from database #831