.NET 5 - Supported OS versions

.NET 5 is supported on multiple operating systems per their lifecycle policy.

For issues with .NET on operating systems not listed here, please open a GitHub issue in the appropriate .NET repository or contact the OS maintainer community . Please see .NET Repos for the repository list.

Windows

OS	Version	Architectures	Lifecycle
Windows Client	7 SP1(*), 8.1	x64, x86	Windows
Windows 10 Client	Version 1607+	x64, x86, Arm64	Windows
Windows 11	Version 22000+	x64, x86, Arm64	Windows
Windows Server	2012+	x64, x86	Windows Server
Windows Server Core	2012+	x64, x86	Windows Server
Nano Server	Version 1809+	x64	Windows Server

* Windows 7 SP1 is supported with Extended Security Updates installed.

Linux

| OS | Version | Architectures | Lifecycle | | | --------------------------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|---------- | | | Alpine Linux | 3.12+ | x64, Arm64 | Alpine | | | 3.13+ | Arm32 | | | CentOS | 7+ | x64 | CentOS | | Debian | 9+ | x64, Arm32, Arm64 | Debian | | Fedora | 33+ | x64 | Fedora | | Linux Mint | 18+ | x64 | Linux Mint | | openSUSE | 15+ | x64 | OpenSUSE | | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7+ | x64 | Red Hat | | SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES) | 12 SP2+ | x64 | SUSE | | Ubuntu | 21.04, 20.04, 18.04, 16.04 | x64, Arm32, Arm64 | Ubuntu |

Note: .NET 5 requires OpenSSL 1.x. Newer distro versions such as Ubuntu 22.04 use OpenSSL 3 and not OpenSSL 1.x. You need to use .NET 6+ if you want a newer distro that only offers OpenSSL 3.

macOS

OS	Version	Architectures
macOS	10.15+	x64

Support changes from .NET Core 3.1

Alpine 3.14 and Debian 11 are now supported with the .NET 5.0.10 and .NET Core 3.1.19. The operating system support pages for .NET 5.0 and .NET Core 3.1 have been updated to reflect that.

The following operating systems are no longer supported, starting with .NET 5.0.

Windows Arm32
Oracle Linux

Out of support OS versions

Support for the following versions was ended by the distribution owners and are no longer supported by .NET 5.

None yet.