Today, we’re releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 6. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but some are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be feature-complete with Preview 8.
This is the final release candidate (RC) for .NET 7 and is supported in production.
Welcome to .NET 8! The first preview is ready for you to download: claim your copy of the first .NET 8 preview and start building applications today. Scroll down to see the list of features included in this preview. .NET 8 is a long-term support (LTS) release. This blog post covers the major themes and goals that drive the prioritization and selection of enhancements to develop. .NET 8 preview and release candidate builds will be delivered monthly. As usual, the final release will be delivered sometime in November at .NET Conf.
Microsoft today shipped the sixth preview of .NET 5, saying the milestone release designed to combine all things .NET is only two steps away from becoming feature complete in Preview 8, with the final GA release scheduled for November.
Today, the Entity Framework Core team announces the first release candidate (RC1) of EF Core 5.0. This is a feature complete release candidate of EF Core 5.0 and ships with a "go live" license. You are supported using it in production.
Today is the official GA release for .NET 5, and along with it we are excited to share the latest updates with our recent release of C#/WinRT version 1.0. C#/WinRT provides WinRT projection support for .NET 5 based apps. The Windows SDK leverages this technology and is now integrated with the .NET 5.0 SDK to expose Windows APIs through the new Target Framework Monikers. In addition to the Windows SDK support added for .NET 5, C#/WinRT itself allows component authors to build their own .NET 5 projections using the CsWinRT NuGet package.
Today, we are releasing an update to .NET 8.0.400 SDK due to an issue with (MSBuild Crash when publishing containers)[dotnet/sdk#42731].
The .NET 8.0.401 release is available for download. This SDK includes the previously released .NET 8.0.8 Runtime and is in support of Visual Studio 17.11 release. The latest 8.0 release is always listed at .NET 8.0 Releases.
It is the last preview before we enter the (two) Release Candidate (RC) period.
| Milestone | Release Date |
|---|---|
| .NET Core 2.2.x, 2.1.x, 1.x (servicing) | Approximately every 1-2 months or as needed (see also releases) |
| .NET Core 3.0 | Preview releases RC (Release Candidate) released in September 2019 (Preview 9) GA (General Availability) released on September 23, 2019 |
| .NET Core 3.1 | LTS (Long Term Support) release, scheduled for November 2019 |
| .NET 5.0 | Release scheduled for November 2020 |
| .NET 6.0 | LTS (Long Term Support) release, scheduled for November 2021 |
| .NET 7.0 | Release scheduled for November 2022 |
| .NET 8.0 | LTS (Long Term Support) release, scheduled for November 2023 |
.NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available. This release contains only a handful of bug fixes and closely represents what we expect to release for .NET Core 3.0.
