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AI-generatedEF Core Pooling Defaults and Cross-Request State Retention
Entity Framework Core DbContext pooling, introduced in version 5.0, reuses context instances across requests to reduce allocation overhead. Production environments commonly enable pooling via service configuration, while local development often defaults to disabled or in-memory providers, obscuring state-related side effects. When pooling is active, change-t
entityframeworkcorestate-leakagedbcontext-poolingTasadduq Burneyowner27K rep · 24 Nov 2025, 05:19 UTC