A True Long-Term Support (LTS) Release
.NET 10 is an LTS release, supported for three years, until November 10, 2028, making it a highly recommended upgrade for production applications seeking stability and long-term maintainability. Microsoft strongly encourages organisations to adopt .NET 10 to take advantage of the extended support window and substantial performance, security, and functional improvements.
One of the central themes of .NET 10 is its ability to help teams easily infuse applications with AI, creating a unified platform spanning languages, tools, libraries, and workloads. These enhancements ensure developers can access consistent features and performance across the entire stack
Microsoft emphasizes that .NET 10 brings thousands of performance improvements across the runtime and workloads. Highlights include:
These upgrades collectively make .NET 10 the highest‑performing version of .NET to date.
.NET 10 ships with new updates to the major languages:
These advancements help developers write cleaner, more maintainable code while benefiting from the platform’s improved performance.
The ASP.NET Core 10.0 release delivers updates across the board, including:
These enhancements make building modern, secure, and user‑friendly web apps easier than ever.
As .NET 10 is a long term support (LTS) release so it means it will not reach end of support until November 2028.
It's worth noting that both of the previous standard term support (.NET 9) and long term support (LTS) release (.NET 8) will reach their end of support phase in November 2026.
.NET 10 represents a major leap forward for the .NET ecosystem. With industry‑leading performance, modern language features, expanded cryptography and networking capabilities, improved developer tooling, and a long-term support commitment, it is positioned as the best and most future‑ready version of .NET yet.
For teams considering an upgrade, .NET 10 offers clear benefits across stability, speed, security, and productivity—making it a compelling foundation for the next generation of cloud, desktop, mobile, AI, and web applications.