It’s nice to have a predictable release cycle for .NET. Back in the old days of the .NET Framework, releases were few and far between, and changes were often minimal. That wasn’t particularly bad, but having the development platform tied to the Windows release cycle sometimes meant waiting years for promised features.
With the move to an open source platform, initially with the parallel development of .NET Core and the .NET Standard base classes, and finally with the merged .NET, things have changed. We now get an annual .NET release, tied to the .NET Conf event in November, with 18 months of support for STS (Standard Term Support) releases and three years of support for LTS (Long Term Support) releases. Odd-numbered versions of .NET are STS, and even-numbered versions are LTS.
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