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It contains .NET 4.6, which is stable and not .NET 5. AFAIK, .NET 5 doesn't exist?

highmastdon is referring to this release containing only a preview of ASP.NET 5. Note the ASP.

asp.net 5 beta 5: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta5

The ASP.NET team recently published a roadmap here: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/wiki/Roadmap

There will be three more beta releases scheduled for July, August and September, followed by a release candidate in November. RC 1 will have a go-live license and support for production deployment on x86/x64 Windows, Mac and Linux.

There may be more than one RC release, depending on feedback, but the final release should be some time in Q1 2016.

I think you mean ASP.NET 5

The ASP.NET team had stated a few months back they are a couple months behind the visual studio release, so it shouldn't be that much longer.