core/roadmap.md

.NET Roadmaps & Release Schedule

This document covers roadmaps and release schedules for .NET and .NET products.

.NET Roadmaps

Here is a list of .NET project roadmaps that you can get involved in:

• .NET Aspire
• .NET MAUI
• ASP.NET Core
• C#
• Entity Framework Core
• F#
• ML.NET
• NuGet
• Roslyn
• Visual Basic
• WinForms
• WPF

Released Versions

• Latest updates or Download archive

For released versions of the product:

• Supported operating systems
• Release notes
• Support timelines

Upcoming Ship Dates

Milestone	Release Date
.NET 6.0	LTS (Long Term Support) release. Approximately every 1-2 months or as needed.
.NET 7.0	STS (Standard Term Support) release. Approximately every 1-2 months or as needed.
.NET 8.0	LTS (Long Term Support) release, scheduled for November 14, 2023

Details about longer-term schedule have been announced on May 6th, 2019 in Introducing .NET 5 blog post.

Milestone information is available on most repos, for example dotnet/runtime milestones.

Feedback

The best way to give feedback is to create issues in the dotnet/core repo. You can also create issues in other .NET repos if you find that to be more appropriate for the topic you want to discuss.

Please give us feedback that will give us insight on the following points:

• Existing features that are missing some capability or otherwise don't work well enough.
• Missing features that should be added to the product.
• Design choices for a feature that is currently in-progress.

Some important caveats / notes:

• It is best to give design feedback quickly for improvements that are in-development. We're unlikely to hold a feature being part of a release on late feedback.
• We are most likely to include improvements that either have a positive impact on a broad scenario or have very significant positive impact on a niche scenario. This means that we are unlikely to prioritize modest improvements to niche scenarios.
• Compatibility will almost always be given a higher priority than improvements.