Lifecycle guide for dotnet-ef from Microsoft

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is dotnet-ef?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

Entity Framework Core Tools for the .NET Command-Line Interface. Enables these commonly used dotnet-ef commands: dotnet ef migrations add dotnet ef migrations list dotnet ef migrations script dotnet ef dbcontext info dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold dotnet ef database drop dotnet ef database update

The entire lifecycle of dotnet-ef

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of dotnet-ef. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.