The support-phase property for .NET 7 will transition from preview to go-live on September 13th. Previously, this would have been rc.
The support-phase property for .NET 7 will transition from go-live to sts on November 8th. Previously, this would have been current.
Context
"Current" releases will now be referred to as "Short-term Support (STS)" releases, in obvious contrast to "Long-term Support (LTS)" releases. The duration of the support periods and related policies are not changing.
releases.jsonBreaking Changereleases.json is a family of files (and schema) that the .NET Team publishes to enable programatic access to the catalog of .NET releases.
We are making some targeted changes to these files, primarily to reduce user confusion, in response to consistent and broad feedback.
We are making three primary changes, ordered from most to least breaking:
currentvalue withsts, in thesupport-phaseproperty.support-phase. This will includego-live, in addition tosts.release-typeproperty, with immutable values ofltsorsts, as appropriate.Timing
The change will be made in two phases:
release-typeproperty, and .NET 7 EOL date, will be added on July 13th via https://github.com/dotnet/core/pull/7499.support-phaseproperty for .NET 7 will transition frompreviewtogo-liveon September 13th. Previously, this would have beenrc.support-phaseproperty for .NET 7 will transition fromgo-livetostson November 8th. Previously, this would have beencurrent.Context
"Current" releases will now be referred to as "Short-term Support (STS)" releases, in obvious contrast to "Long-term Support (LTS)" releases. The duration of the support periods and related policies are not changing.
The "Current" term will no longer be used.
See .NET Release Labels for more information.