What is the development status of SignalR 3?

Question

Based on my understanding, the old SignalR repository is dead: there were no commits for a year (ironically, the guys who previously committed to it, now commit to Node,js), dozens of issues without response (we experienced a bug and had to downgrade to a version that's two years old).

There's a SignalR-Server repository which is a part of ASP.NET. It was supposed to be released with ASP.NET 5 (Q1 2016) but according to roadmap, it will be released later (Q3 2016). So I guess this is the repository where the actual SignalR development is going on. But the appropriate client repository is empty. So should I use the client from the old repository and a server from the new one? That's extremely confusing.

Answer 1

There will be a version 3 of signalR included in ASP.NET 5. The development team aim for a release by mid-2016. See this roadmap

Update #1 (April 2018):

• SignalR 3 will be shipped with ASP.NET Core 2.1 (see ASP.NET Blog)
• ASP.NET Core 2.1 will be released mid-year 2018 (see ASP.NET Blog)
• New GitHub repo

Update #2 (June 2018)

• ASP.NET Core 2.1 has been released (see ASP.NET Blog)