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Introducing Microsoft .NET 6
Microsoft is unveiling its road map for the next major release of .NET, along with a first preview download. Thinkstock
With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has moved into maintenance mode, while the new .NET completes its separation from Windows release cycles with a new cadence of annual releases.
In that new cadence, .NET 5 is what’s referred to as a current supported release, with 2021’s .NET 6 intended to be the first long-term support version of the new platform. That gives .NET 6 three years of support, as opposed to .NET 5’s support which ends sometime early in 2022, three months after the .NET 6 release. You can think of current releases as pioneering new features for developers who produce regular updates, mainly for consumer applications. Long-term suppo
Microsoft has released .NET 6 Preview 1. It comes with a bunch of features including support for Apple Silicon, Blazor, Mult-platform App UI toolkit, a better CLI, and performance enhancements.
Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK
Tim Anderson Thu 18 Feb 2021 // 13:50 UTC Share
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Microsoft has shipped the first preview of .NET 6.0, the first long-term support release of its newly unified application platform, promising native Apple Silicon support, desktop applications on ARM64, and a ton of updates to key frameworks like ASP.NET Core.
Program manager Richard Lander described .NET 6 as the final parts of the .NET unification plan that started with .NET 5 in a lengthy post on the new release. The preview is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, though note that the desktop application frameworks, Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation, are Windows-only.
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