core/releases.md

.NET Releases

The .NET team releases new major versions of .NET annually, each November. Releases are either Long Term Support (LTS) or Standard Term Support (STS), and transition from full support through 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, Linux Package Managers, and the Microsoft Artifact Registry.

Supported releases

The following table lists supported releases.

Version	Release Date	Support	Latest Patch Version	End of Support
.NET 8	November 14, 2023	LTS	8.0.10	November 10, 2026
.NET 6	November 8, 2021	LTS	6.0.35	November 12, 2024

RC releases

The following table lists unsupported rc releases.

Version	Release Date	Support	Latest Patch Version	End of Support
.NET 9	November 12, 2024	STS	9.0.0-rc.2	May 12, 2026

End-of-life releases

The following table lists end-of-life releases.

Version	Release Date	Support	Final Patch Version	End of Support
.NET 7	November 8, 2022	STS	7.0.20	May 14, 2024
.NET 5	November 10, 2020	STS	5.0.17	May 10, 2022
.NET Core 3.1	December 3, 2019	LTS	3.1.32	December 13, 2022
.NET Core 3.0	September 23, 2019	STS	3.0.3	March 3, 2020
.NET Core 2.2	December 4th, 2018	STS	2.2.8	December 23, 2019
.NET Core 2.1	May 30, 2018	LTS	2.1.30	August 21, 2021
.NET Core 2.0	August 14th, 2017	STS	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