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.NET 8 - Supported OS versions

.NET 8 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release and 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 . See .NET Repos for the repository list.

Windows

OS Version Architectures Lifecycle
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 Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are supported with Extended Security Updates installed

.NET 8 is supported in the x64 emulator on Windows 11 Arm64.

Linux

OS Version Architectures Lifecycle
Alpine Linux 3.16+ x64, Arm64, Arm32 Alpine
Debian 11+ x64, Arm64, Arm32 Debian
Fedora 38+ x64 Fedora
openSUSE 15+ x64 OpenSUSE
Oracle Linux 8+ x64 Oracle
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+ x64, Arm64 Red Hat
SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES) 12 SP5+ x64 SUSE
Ubuntu 20.04+ x64, Arm64, Arm32 Ubuntu

Arm32 builds are supported on distro versions with a Y2038 incompatible glibc or a Y2038 compatible glibc with _TIME_BITS set to 32-bit, for example Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04, and lower versions.

Other distributions are supported at best effort, per .NET Support and Compatibility for Linux Distributions.

Libc compatibility

  • glibc 2.23 (from Ubuntu 16.04)
  • musl 1.2.2 (from Alpine 3.13)

macOS

OS Version Architectures
macOS 12.0+ x64, Arm64

.NET 8 is supported in the Rosetta 2 x64 emulator.

Android

OS Version Architectures
Android API 21+ x64, Arm32, Arm64

iOS / tvOS / MacCatalyst

OS Version Architectures
iOS 12.0+ Arm64
iOS Simulator 12.0+ x64, Arm64
tvOS 12.0+ Arm64
tvOS Simulator 12.0+ x64, Arm64
MacCatalyst 12.0+ x64, Arm64

QEMU

.NET 8 is not supported being run (emulated) via QEMU. QEMU is used, for example, to emulate Arm64 containers on x64, and vice versa.

Support changes from .NET 6.0

The following operating systems are no longer supported, starting with .NET 7.0.

OS Version Architectures
Windows Client 7 SP1, 8.1 x64, x86

Out of support OS versions

Support for the following versions was ended by the distribution owners and are no longer supported by .NET 8.0.

  • Fedora 37