.Net and .Net Core Microsoft Programming language Release Version Major Minor Patch End-of-life EOL Support End-of-support EOS Maintenance End-of-maintenance EOM Security Long-term support LTS Vulnerabilities Common vulnerabilities & exposures CVE Security product-release-end-of-life-overview.xml free-trial.xml 📅 Last update on 2025-08-08 What is .Net and .Net Core?   The entire lifecycle of .Net and .Net Core The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of .Net and .Net Core. 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. Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product .Net and .Net Core (Microsoft)   The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it's no longer supported. Customers can choose Long Term Support (LTS) releases or Current releases. The quality of all releases is the same. The only difference is the length of support. LTS releases get free support and patches for 3 years. Current releases get free support and patches for 15 months. Within a release's support lifecycle, systems must remain current on released patch updates. Product .Net and .Net Core Vendor Microsoft Latest version 9.0.8 Number of releases 13 Number of versions 175 Number of unstable versions 52 Number of versions affected by CVE 68 Licence MIT Licence Licence details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License Product site Release info Version command Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET