WCF Features in .Net Core 1.0.0

This is part of WCF release notes for .NET Core 1.0.0. Please check out release notes for what's new since RC2 release.

Supported features

✅ -- Works with no known major issues
⚠️ -- Partially works with known issues or only partially tested
🚫 -- Not Supported
❔ -- Not yet tested

Category	Feature	UWP	Windows	Linux OSs	Mac OS X
Bindings	BasicHttpBinding	✅	✅	✅	✅
	CustomBinding	✅	✅	✅	✅
	NetHttpBinding	✅	✅	✅	✅
	NetTcpBinding	✅	✅	✅	✅
Transports	Http	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Https	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Tcp	✅	✅	✅	✅
	WebSockets	⚠️	✅	🚫	🚫
Channel types	Request/Reply	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Duplex	✅	✅	✅	✅
Encodings	Text	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Binary	✅	✅	✅	✅
TransferMode	Buffered (sync/async)	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Streamed (sync/async)	✅	✅	✅	✅
MessageVersion	SOAP 1.1 UTF8	✅	✅	✅	✅
	SOAP 1.2 UTF8	✅	✅	✅	✅
Contracts	DataContract	✅	✅	✅	✅
	XmlSerializer	✅	✅	✅	✅
	MessageFormat	✅	✅	✅	✅
	FaultContract	✅	✅	✅	✅
Security	None	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Transport	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Message	🚫	🚫	🚫	🚫
Client Authentication	Basic	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Digest	✅	✅	✅	❔
	NTLM	✅	✅	🚫	🚫
	Kerberos/TCP	🚫	✅	✅	✅
	Kerberos/HTTP	✅	✅	🚫	🚫
	Certificate/TCP	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Certificate/HTTP	✅	✅	✅	❔
Service Authentication	Certificate	✅	✅	✅	✅
	SPNIdentity	🚫	🚫	🚫	🚫
	UPNIdentity	🚫	🚫	🚫	🚫
Client types	ChannelFactory<T>	✅	✅	✅	✅
	ChannelBase<T>	✅	✅	✅	✅
Extensibility	IClientMessageInspector	✅	✅	✅	✅
	IClientMessageFormatter	✅	✅	✅	✅
Management	ETW Tracing	🚫	✅	🚫	🚫

For more details about what UWP is please see this dotnet Glossary doc.

Linux OSs includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, OpenSUSE, Oracle Linux and Ubuntu.

For supported versions of each platform and other details please see the .NET Core 1.0.0 Release Notes.