Updated: September 4, 2023 (December 19, 2022)

.NET 7.0 Arrives as Short-Term Release

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.NET 7.0 will only be supported until May 2024, so .NET 6.0 or the upcoming .NET 8.0 are better choices for applications requiring longer stability periods.
An integrated development environment (IDE) upgrade may be required, such as a move to Visual Studio 2022.
It includes improved performance, enhancements to .NET MAUI and Blazor, and updated programming languages.

The .NET 7.0 cross-platform software development framework became generally available in Nov. 2022. New versions of .NET, which was previously branded .NET Core, are released annually, alternating between short- and long-term support life cycles. .NET 7.0 is a short-term (so-called Standard Term Support [STS]) version that will be supported until May 2024. (See the illustration “.NET Support Timeline.”)

.NET Background

.NET delivers class libraries (sets of development APIs) and a runtime environment required by so-called managed code applications that can be implemented in programming languages such as C#, F#, and Visual Basic.

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