A.Versions History

ASP.Net MVC 5.0 (What is New)

  1. One ASP.Net,

  2. ASP.Net Identity for External Authentication like google,

  3. Enhance Async Controller,

  4. WEB API Ver 2,0,

  5. Support of EF 6,

  6. Attribute based routing, Bootstrap,

  7. OWIN and Katana for cloud enhance cloud support.

http://ashwini47-tts.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-is-new-in-aspnet-mvc-5_8.html

ASP.Net MVC 4.0 (What is New)

Native Supports for JQuery Mobile

ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Single Page Application

Enhancements to Default Project Templates

Mobile Project Template

Display Modes

jQuery Mobile, the View Switcher, and Browser Overriding

Recipes for Code Generation in Visual Studio

Task Support for Asynchronous Controllers

Azure SDK

ASP.Net MVC 3.0 (What is New)

Extensible Scaffolding with MvcScaffold integration

HTML 5 enabled project templates

The Razor View Engine

Support for Multiple View Engines

Controller Improvements

JavaScript and Ajax

Model Validation Improvements

Dependency Injection Improvements

Other New Features

ASP.Net MVC 2.0 (What is New)

Templated Helpers

Areas

Support for Asynchronous Controllers

Support for DefaultValueAttribute in Action-Method Parameters

Support for Binding Binary Data with Model Binders

ModelMetadata and ModelMetadataProvider Classes

Support for DataAnnotations Attributes

Model-Validator Providers

Client-Side Validation

New Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

New RequireHttpsAttribute Action Filter

Overriding the HTTP Method Verb

New HiddenInputAttribute Class for Templated Helpers

Html.ValidationSummary Helper Method Can Display Model-Level Errors

T4 Templates in Visual Studio Generate Code that is Specific to the Target Version of the .NET

ASP.Net MVC 1.0 (First Release)

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. This means that developers can take advantage of the MVC design patterns to create their Web Applications which includes the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns (the UI or view from the business and application logic and backend data), as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD). The ASP.NET MVC framework defines a specific pattern to the Web Application folder structure and provides a controller base-class to handle and process requests for “actions”. Developers can take advantage of the specific Visual Studio 2008 MVC templates within this release to create their Web applications, which includes the ability to select a specific Unit Test structure to accompany their Web Application development.

The MVC framework is fully extensible at all points, allowing developers to create sophisticated structures that meet their needs, including for example Dependency Injection (DI) techniques, new view rendering engines or specialized controllers.

As the ASP.NET MVC framework is built on ASP.NET 3.5, developers can take advantage of many existing ASP.NET 3.5 features, such as localization, authorization, Profile etc.

References

http://www.nitrix-reloaded.com/2012/09/14/aspnetmvc-framework-versions-and-features/