Today, we are releasing the .NET December 2020 Update. These updates contains reliability and other non-security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Also starting today, .NET Core updates will be delivered via Microsoft Update including Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and the Microsoft Update Catalog. See our previous post on about .NET Core updates coming to Microsoft Update for more information about this.
You can download .NET 5.0.1, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64.
- Installers and binaries: 5.0.1
- Release notes: 5.0.1
- Container images
- Linux packages: 5.0.1
- Release feedback/issues
- Known issues: 5.0
Improvements
Visual Studio
For Visual Studio users, you need Visual Studio 16.8 or later to use .NET 5.0 on Windows and the latest version ofVisual Studio for Mac) on macOS. The C# extension for Visual Studio Code supports .NET 5.0 and C# 9.
Rahul Bhandari
Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotne...december-2020/