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.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many types of applications.

Release Released Support Status Latest
7.0 1 month and 1 week ago
(08 Nov 2022)
Ends in 1 year and 4 months
(14 May 2024)
7.0.1
(13 Dec 2022)
6.0 (LTS) 1 year and 1 month ago
(08 Nov 2021)
Ends in 1 year and 10 months
(12 Nov 2024)
6.0.12
(13 Dec 2022)
5.0 2 years ago
(10 Nov 2020)
Ended 7 months ago
(08 May 2022)
5.0.17
Core 3.1 (LTS) 3 years ago
(03 Dec 2019)
Ended 1 week ago
(13 Dec 2022)
3.1.32
Core 3.0 3 years ago
(23 Sep 2019)
Ended 2 years and 9 months ago
(03 Mar 2020)
3.0.3
Core 2.2 4 years ago
(04 Dec 2018)
Ended 2 years and 12 months ago
(23 Dec 2019)
2.2.8
Core 2.1 (LTS) 4 years and 6 months ago
(30 May 2018)
Ended 1 year and 4 months ago
(21 Aug 2021)
2.1.30
Core 2.0 5 years ago
(14 Aug 2017)
Ended 4 years ago
(01 Oct 2018)
2.0.9

Microsoft publishes new major releases of .NET Core on a regular cadence, enabling developers, the community and businesses to plan their roadmaps. Beginning with .NET Core 3.1, these releases will happen every November and every other release will be LTS. LTS releases are supported for three years after the initial release.

More information is available on the Microsoft .NET website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
dotnet --version

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This page was last updated on 16 December 2022. Latest releases are automatically updated.