While the previous version 8.0, released in November 2023, received 36 months of support and hence will continue to receive updates till November 2026, Microsoft is offering updates and technical support for .NET 9.0 for a period of 18 months, i.e. only till May 2026. doing. To.
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When it comes to the support cycle for modern .NET, Microsoft distinguishes between STS and LTS releases.
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Some Microsoft-published .NET NuGet packages that are not part of the .NET SDK have a different support policy.
It affects the following package families:
- Extensions.*, for example Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience and Microsoft.Extensions.Telemetry
- AspNetCore.*, for example Microsoft.AspNetCore.Testing and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.Middleware
The following applies to these packages:
- There may be a new minor release every month (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, …).
- There is always support for the latest releases only.
- Microsoft does not strictly follow the rules of semantic versioning.
A list of affected NuGet packages can be found on the extensions page.
Microsoft explains different support for .NET platform extensions.
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