.NET 5 - Supported OS versions

Microsoft supports .NET 5 with multiple operating systems, according to official operating system lifecycle and distribution.

Microsoft Support for .NET describes support for various .NET versions.

Support changes from .NET Core 3.1

The supported platform matrix for .NET was established in .NET Core 1.0 and has been mostly unchanged. With the introduction of .NET 5, we're taking the opportunity to apply a data-driven approach to which platform are considered for support.

Practically, there are a limited number of platforms on which .NET can be defined as "supported". In this instance, "supported" means that Microsoft performs a sufficient level of testing on the listed platform to honestly attest that .NET will function within known parameters. The decision to offer .NET support on a platform rests on a few data points among which are, demonstrable community usage at a level that warrants specific testing and, sufficient agreement between the .NET lifecycle policy and the platform enabling support timelines and releases that make sense.

Based on the above criteria, Windows ARM32 and Oracle Linux will be removed from the list of supported OS platforms for .NET 5.

Windows

OS	Version	Architectures	Lifecycle
Windows Client	7 SP1, 8.1	x64, x86	Windows
Windows 10 Client	Version 1607+	x64, x86, ARM64	Windows
Windows Server	2012 R2+	x64, x86	Windows Server
Windows Server Core	2012 R2+	x64, x86	Windows Server
Nano Server	Version 1809+	x64	Windows Server

Linux

OS	Version	Architectures	Lifecycle
Alpine Linux	3.11+	x64, ARM64	Alpine
CentOS	7+	x64	CentOS
Debian	9+	x64, ARM32, ARM64	Debian
Fedora	30+	x64	Fedora
Linux Mint	18+	x64	Linux Mint
openSUSE	15+	x64	OpenSUSE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	7+	x64	Red Hat
SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES)	12 SP2+	x64	SUSE
Ubuntu	20.04, 19.10, 18.04	x64, ARM32, ARM64	Ubuntu

macOS

OS	Version	Architectures
macOS	10.13+	x64

Out of support OS versions

Support for the following versions was ended by the distribution owners and are no longer supported by .NET 5.

OS	Version	End of Life	Supported Version

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