Microsoft has announced the support plan for .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core. According to Microsoft’s Lee Coward, the company plans on utilizing a two-pronged approach to releases for these systems. The plans answer one of the main questions behind their open source initiative- how long developers can count on Microsoft to provide support and security patches to these young projects.
The releases carrying the Long Term Support (LTS) designation will be supported for a base period of three years after their release, with an additional year of support available coinciding with a future release. LTS releases can be considered stable with patches applied for security concerns and/or serious bugs.
