Versions of .NET

Release 5.0.16

  • Released on 2022-04-12
  • Runtime 5.0.16
  • SDK 5.0.407
  • SDK 5.0.213
  • ASP.NET Runtime 5.0.16
  • Windows Desktop Runtime 5.0.16

SDK 5.0.407

  • Visual Studio 16.11.12
  • Visual Studio for Mac 8.10
  • C# 9.0
  • F# 5.0
  • VB 16.0

SDK 5.0.213

  • Visual Studio 16.9.18
  • Visual Studio for Mac 8.10
  • C# 9.0
  • F# 5.0
  • VB 16.0

Release notes

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.NET 5.0.16 - April 12, 2022

The .NET 5.0.16, .NET 5.0.407 SDK and .NET SDK 5.0.213 releases are available for download. The latest 5.0 release is always listed at .NET 5.0 Releases.

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  1. Includes the .NET Runtime and ASP.NET Core Runtime
  2. For hosting stand-alone apps on Windows Servers. Includes the ASP.NET Core Module for IIS and can be installed separately on servers without installing .NET Runtime.

The .NET SDK includes a matching updated .NET Runtime. Downloading the Runtime or ASP.NET Core packages is not needed when installing the SDK.

You can check your .NET SDK version by running the following command. The example version shown is for this release.

$ dotnet --version
5.0.407

Visit .NET Documentation to learn about .NET, for building many different types of applications.

Docker Images

The .NET Docker images have been updated for this release. The .NET Docker samples show various ways to use .NET and Docker together. You can use the following command to try running the latest .NET 5.0 release in containers:

docker run --rm mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/samples

The following repos have been updated.

Windows SDK Updates

.NET SDK 5.0.213 and 5.0.407 include performance improvements and bug fixes to the Windows SDK packages that provide access to Windows Runtime APIs. For more details, see the C#/WinRT 1.6.1 release notes.

Visual Studio Compatibility

You need Visual Studio 16.8 or later to use .NET 5.0 on Windows. On macOS, you need the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac. The C# extension for Visual Studio Code supports .NET 5.0 and C# 9.

Notable Changes

.NET 5.0.16 release carries non-security fixes.

Additional fixes in this release

Feedback

Your feedback is important and appreciated. We've created an issue at dotnet/core #7362 for your questions and comments.

Packages updated in this release:

Package name Version
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x86 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x86.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.linux-musl-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.LLVM.AOT.osx-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.linux-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.osx-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.win-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x86.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x86.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.LLVM.AOT.linux-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.LLVM.linux-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.LLVM.osx-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.osx-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-x86 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.osx-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.LLVM.AOT.linux-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.LLVM.linux-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.linux-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.linux-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.win-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.win-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.linux-musl-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.browser-wasm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Crossgen2.win-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.linux-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.osx-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x86.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Crossgen2.linux-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.win-x86 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.linux-musl-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.osx-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHost 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.linux-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.Mono.linux-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.osx-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.osx-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-arm.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.linux-musl-arm64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetAppHost 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
runtime.win-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Crossgen2.linux-musl-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.App.Host.linux-musl-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostPolicy 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.NETCore.DotNetHostResolver 5.0.16.nupkg
dotnet-sql-cache 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices.Extensions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Certificate 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApiAuthorization.IdentityServer 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Negotiate 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Authentication.WebAssembly.Msal 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.ConcurrencyLimiter 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Authentication 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.AzureAppServices.SiteExtension 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.AzureAppServices.HostingStartup 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x86 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Google 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Facebook 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Protocols.MessagePack 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Transport.Libuv 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.JSInterop.WebAssembly 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.JSInterop 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.ApiDescription.Server 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.KeyPerFile 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Owin 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Server 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.Abstractions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.NewtonsoftJson 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.EntityFrameworkCore 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.JsonPatch 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.HeaderPropagation 5.0.16.nupkg
AspNetCoreRuntime.5.0.x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.osx-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-x64 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.OpenIdConnect 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.WsFederation 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Protocols.Json 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Client.Core 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Client 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Transport.Experimental.Quic 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.WebEncoders 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.AzureAppServices 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Localization 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Core 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ProjectTemplates.5.0 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.ApiDescription.Client 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.DevServer 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Forms 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Analyzers 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.AzureAppServicesIntegration 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.Extensions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.Extensions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.MiddlewareAnalysis 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Client 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Common 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.EntityFrameworkCore 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.MicrosoftAccount 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AzureAD.UI 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AzureADB2C.UI 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.TestHost 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Protocols.NewtonsoftJson 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.DotNet.Web.Client.ItemTemplates 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.DotNet.Web.Spa.ProjectTemplates.5.0 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Twitter 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.DotNet.Web.ItemTemplates 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Stores 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Connections.Abstractions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Metadata 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.StackExchangeRedis 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64 5.0.16.nupkg
AspNetCoreRuntime.5.0.x86 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Razor 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.dotnet-openapi 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.StackExchangeRedis 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Specification.Tests 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Common 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.FileProviders.Embedded 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks.EntityFrameworkCore 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks.Abstractions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.RuntimeCompilation 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cryptography.KeyDerivation 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cryptography.Internal 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Authorization 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.UI 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.WindowsServices 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.Specification.Tests 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite.NetTopologySuite 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Specification.Tests 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Proxies 5.0.16.nupkg
dotnet-ef 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.NetTopologySuite 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Data.Sqlite 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Cosmos 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Abstractions 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational.Specification.Tests 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite.Core 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.InMemory 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.Core 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Analyzers 5.0.16.nupkg
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer 5.0.16.nupkg

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