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Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 2

October 13, 2020 Oct 13, 2020 10/13/20
Rich Lander [MSFT]
Today, we are shipping .NET 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2). It is a near-final release of .NET 5.0, and the last of two RCs before the official release in November. RC2 is a "go live" release; you are supported using it in production. At this point, we're looking for reports of any remaining critical bugs that should be fixed before the final ...

NET Core Releases and Support

September 23, 2020 Sep 23, 2020 09/23/20
Jamshed Damkewala
7/15/2021: this post was revised to update the support period for "Current" releases from 15 months to 18 months, or 6 months after the next release ships.   While we've covered .NET Core releases, cadence and support policies in previous blog posts, the information has been distributed across a couple of individual posts. With the...