Timeline
The dates that articles in .NET give: what moves to preview or general availability, and what is deprecated or retired. The same date, stated by several articles, is shown once. Open a card to see where it comes from.
2028
Visual Studio: Long-Term Servicing Channel
14 Nov 2028Support for Visual Studio 2026 LTSC 18.11 ends on November 14, 2028.
2026
.NET
10 Nov 2026.NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support.
.NET
10 Nov 2026.NET 11 is released with two years of Standard Term Support.
.NET MAUI: CoreCLR
10 Nov 2026.NET MAUI in .NET 11 makes CoreCLR the default runtime across its platforms.
Visual Studio: Long-Term Servicing Channel
10 Nov 2026Visual Studio 2026 LTSC 18.11 is announced alongside Stable 18.12, introducing a fixed-release channel with two years of support.
Microsoft Graph: Create channel API
Nov 2026Channel creation requests omitting layoutType will default to Threads rather than Posts.
Microsoft Foundry: Browser automation
26 Oct 2026Browser automation in Microsoft Foundry becomes generally available.
Aspire dashboard: Data persistence
8 Oct 2026Aspire 13.6 makes dashboard data persistence available, with run history enabled by default for AppHost applications.
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient: Pool V2
7 Oct 2026Opt-in Pool V2 is available starting with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.1.0, enabling concurrent connection establishment.
.NET Aspire
30 Sep 2026Aspire 13.6 ships with persistent dashboard telemetry, container terminals, first-party Java and Rust hosting previews, and Azure sandbox deployment support.
.NET Aspire
19 Aug 2026Aspire 13.5 ships with expanded AppHost interactions, interactive terminals, and deployment modeling improvements.
.NET Aspire
1 Jun 2026Aspire 13.4 is released with typed resource commands, expanded Kubernetes deployment support, and Go and Bun integrations.
.NET Aspire: TypeScript apphost
1 Jun 2026TypeScript apphost becomes generally available in Aspire 13.4.