.NET Core Roadmap

.NET Core is a general purpose, modular, cross-platform and open source implementation of .NET. It includes a runtime, framework libraries, compilers and tools that support a variety of chip and OS targets. These components can be used together or separately.

Major .NET Core components:

This roadmap is intended to communicate project priorities for evolving and extending the scope of .NET Core.

Ship Dates

At Microsoft, .NET has always been an important component of other teams' products and has largely shipped on their schedules. It means that we have to take their dates seriously and integrate them into the .NET Core schedule.

Milestone	Release Date
1.0	June 2016
1.1	Fall 2016

Planned 1.1 features

Broader API support, bringing parity with .NET Framework and Mono at the BCL level.
Transition to MSBuild and csproj as the default build system and project model for all versions of .NET.

Notes:

The 1.0 release is accompanied with a preview version of the Visual Studio and command-line tooling. The tooling should reach RTM quality with version 1.1 of the .NET Core runtime in Fall 2016.
The ASP.NET Core roadmap articulates the ASP.NET projects's roadmap and dates.

TBD

There are several areas of the product that are TBD. This designation doesn't mean that they are not important, just that there is no plan in place yet. Contributions are welcome.

OS package manager (e.g. apt-get, brew), and broader Linux distro support.
Create low-level FX APIs for Linux (e.g. daemon support) and macOS, much like exists for Windows (e.g. Windows registry).

Technology Roadmaps

Architecture:

.NET Platform Standard
.NET Core Tools/CLI
Languages: F# (C# and VB are done).

Version 1.0 OS Support:

OS	Version	Architectures	Configurations
Windows Client	7 SP1 - 10	x64, x86
Windows Server	2008 R2 SP1 - 2016	x64, x86	Full, Server Core, Nano (2016 only)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	7.2	x64
Fedora	23	x64
Debian	8.2	x64
Ubuntu	14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS	x64
Linux Mint	17	x64
openSUSE	13.2	x64
Centos	7.1	x64
Oracle Linux	7.1	x64
Mac OS X	10.11 (El Capitan)	x64

There will be packages available for the native package managers for each OS. (e.g. apt-get, rpm, pkg, msi) as well as zips.

Microsoft provides commercially reasonable support for ASP.NET Core 1.0, .NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0 on the OS and Version detailed in the table above. Microsoft provides support for ASP.NET Core 1.0, .NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. For an explanation of available support options, please visit Support for Business and Developers.

Project Goals

Broad goals:

.NET Core code is high quality, has compelling performance, and is highly reliable.
.NET Core can be ported to a broad set of OS platforms and chip architectures.
.NET Core can be deployed with the application, side-by-side with other versions.
.NET Core has a broad API surface that makes it suitable for most payloads.
Developers can acquire a .NET Core developer environment quickly and intuitively.
Developers can productively and intuitively build apps, using documentation, samples, community resources, and NuGet packages.

Contributions

Contribution goals:

Encourage an active community.
Make changes easy to code review (smaller vs. bigger).

The .NET Core maintainers have taken a liberal approach to contributions since the outset of the .NET Core open source project and have taken changes outside of the published priorities.

Microsoft Distro

Microsoft ships multiple .NET Core distros. It is important that Microsoft can successfully ship .NET Core at quality and meet its desired dates.

Goals

There are high-quality ports for Linux, macOS and Windows.
There are high-quality ports for X64, X86, ARM32, and ARM64.
.NET ships stable releases multiple times a year.
Contributions should be prioritized that align with these goals.

Workloads

The Microsoft distro currently supports the following workloads:

Console
ASP.NET Core (MVC and WebAPI)
Windows 10 UWP

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