Lifecycle guide for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore from Microsoft

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore?

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Entity Framework Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. EF Core works with SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, SQLite, Azure Cosmos DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other databases through a provider plugin API. Commonly Used Types: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbSet

The entire lifecycle of Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore. 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.