When is the .net pace of change going to slow down, or the length of time to support a given .net version going to increase?

[rhires]

Now that .NET has begun to stabilize (and we're getting close to .NET 10), I'm finding that organizations are having a hard time keeping up with the release versions of .NET - 3 years isn't enough time for them to develop and place into production only to find that they're almost out of support.

Is there going to be a time when a .NET version will be supported by Microsoft for a longer period of time, say 6 years, or 10 years? Or the pace of new versions be slowed down to one per every 2 years or something like that?

[ViktorHofer]

cc @richlander @leecow

[leecow]

cc @jamshedd

[jamshedd]

@rhires there are no plans at the moment to diverge from the current annual cadence with every alternate release being an LTS. If you're representing a specific customer or organization I'm happy to connect directly, you can send me email - firstname_dot_lastname_at_microsoft_dot_com.

[jimfoye]

The pace is pretty blistering. It's now April and you're already on 9 preview 3, so one has to wonder what is the point of moving to 8 right now? What was ever the point of migrating to 7?

I have production WPF apps still in 4.7.2/VS2019 due to WPF designer issues, it would be great if someone at MS would devote some attention to that.