.NET Framework 3.5 has become a standalone deployment

.NET Framework 3.5 was released on November 19th, 2007, to include new features, such as LINQ, and was first available for Windows XP and Vista systems. It ran applications that were built for this framework version.

When Windows 8 was released, it has been moved to an optional Windows component, which users can install on their systems whenever they require an application that supports this version of .NET Framework.

Today, Microsoft has announced that .NET Framework 3.5 has been removed from the list of optional components, starting from Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965. This change doesn’t affect neither Windows 10 nor Windows 11 installations that are 25H2 or older.

As a reminder, this version of .NET Framework will end its support on January 9th, 2029. You can read more about the announcement here.

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