.NET Short Term Releases get 2 years of support!

Earlier, the short term releases for each .NET version would last only 1.5 years (18 months), which means that once an LTS gets released, you’ll have to upgrade to that LTS versions before your .NET version gets deprecated. Now, it seems that Microsoft have adjusted this support length for short term releases of the modern .NET framework, starting from .NET 9.0 released November 12th of the last year.

Microsoft has added six more months to the total support length for such releases, making them end with their LTS version that came before. For example, on November 10th, 2026, both .NET 8.0 and 9.0 will reach end of life.

Here’s the chart that demonstrates the new support timeline:

This is a welcome change, as you’ll now have six extra months to upgrade to the new LTS release by the time the current STS and LTS versions are still in support. You can learn more about this change here.

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Our NuGet total downloads reached 2M!

We have finally reached 2 million downloads across all our NuGet packages, which consist of both the current and the past libraries that have been downloaded over the lifetime of our NuGet feed existence that started on August 2019. Thanks to everyone who have tried out our packages and used them in their applications!

This is a minor milestone, but we are aiming for major ones, such as 5 million downloads across all packages. To celebrate this milestone, we’re introducing brand new versions of libraries. This is to add new features and to improve existing ones.

Nitrocid 0.1.3 is going to have a major arrangement overhaul when it comes to the API, so we’re going to mark this by increasing the API version to v4.0 from v3.1 as it’s a huge breaking change. This will make sure that the Nitrocid application acts like a “launcher” for the core Nitrocid kernel, which, in turn, depends on the base kernel library. This is vaguely similar to how v0.0.20 was developed.

Textify will be updated to improve the RTL reverse performance by getting rid of the libicu library in favor of the more efficient method after this experiment proves successful. As always, we are aiming to change how we make experiments to make sure that they don’t hinder the final production code, but, sometimes, we’d release a version that includes such experiments to gather feedback.

We are going to try reducing the distribution size of Terminaux starting from v7.0, and Beta 3 will include this improvement to ensure that we reduce the download size, especially for future Nitrocid versions. We have already updated Terminaux 6.1.x to include this improvement, and docs have been already updated to reflect this change.

Finally, we are going to introduce some subtle changes to the CI system across all projects, as well as some more build system improvements that we’ve promised, to improve build times and to increase reliability. This applies to developers only.

Enjoy!

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