Introducing .NET 5

.NET 5 = .NET Core vNext

.NET 5 is the next step forward with .NET Core. The project aims to improve .NET in a few key ways:

Produce a single .NET runtime and framework that can be used everywhere and that has uniform runtime behaviors and developer experiences.
Expand the capabilities of .NET by taking the best of .NET Core, .NET Framework, Xamarin and Mono.
Build that product out of a single code-base that developers (Microsoft and the community) can work on and expand together and that improves all scenarios.

Here’s what will be new:

You will have more choice on runtime experiences (more on that below).
Java interoperability will be available on all platforms.
Objective-C and Swift interoperability will be supported on multiple operating systems.
CoreFX will be extended to support static compilation of .NET (ahead-of-time – AOT), smaller footprints and support for more operating systems.

We will ship .NET Core 3.0 this September, .NET 5 in November 2020, and then we intend to ship a major version of .NET once a year, every November: