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.NET Releases

The .NET team releases new major versions of .NET annually, each November. Releases are either Long Term Support (LTS) or Current, the two .NET release types, and transition from full support, to maintenance and finally to end-of-life on a defined schedule, per .NET release policies. .NET releases are supported by Microsoft on multiple operating systems and hardware architectures.

All .NET versions can be downloaded from the .NET website or .NET release notes.

Supported .NET versions

The following table lists in-support .NET releases.

Version Release Date Support Latest Patch Version End of Support
.NET 6 November, 2021 Preview 6.0 Preview 2 November, 2024
.NET 5 November 10, 2020 Current 5.0.4 February, 2022
.NET Core 3.1 December 3, 2019 LTS 3.1.13 December 3, 2022
.NET Core 2.1 May 30, 2018 LTS 2.1.26 August 21, 2021

End-of-life .NET versions

The following table lists end-of-life releases.

Version Release Date Support Final Patch Version End of Support
.NET Core 3.0 September 23, 2019 Current 3.0.3 March 3, 2020
.NET Core 2.2 December 4th, 2018 Current 2.2.8 December 23, 2019
.NET Core 2.0 August 14th, 2017 Current 2.0.9 October 1, 2018
.NET Core 1.1 November 16th, 2016 LTS 1.1.13 June 27, 2019
.NET Core 1.0 June 27th, 2016 LTS 1.0.16 June 27, 2019