.NET 5 - Supported OS versions

.NET 5 is supported on multiple operating systems per their lifecycle policy.

Windows

OS	Version	Architectures	Lifecycle
Windows Client	7 SP1(*), 8.1	x64, x86	Windows
Windows 10 Client	Version 1607+	x64, x86, Arm64	Windows
Windows Server	2012+	x64, x86	Windows Server
Windows Server Core	2012+	x64, x86	Windows Server
Nano Server	Version 1809+	x64	Windows Server

* Windows 7 SP1 is supported with Extended Security Updates installed.

OS	Version	Architectures	Lifecycle
Alpine Linux	3.11+	x64, Arm64	Alpine
CentOS	7+	x64	CentOS
Debian	9+	x64, Arm32, Arm64	Debian
Fedora	33+	x64	Fedora
Linux Mint	18+	x64	Linux Mint
openSUSE	15+	x64	OpenSUSE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	7+	x64	Red Hat
SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES)	12 SP2+	x64	SUSE
Ubuntu	21.04, 20.04, 18.04, 16.04	x64, Arm32, Arm64	Ubuntu

OS	Version	Architectures
macOS	10.13+	x64

The following operating systems are no longer supported, starting with .NET 5.0.

Support for the following versions was ended by the distribution owners and are no longer supported by .NET 5.

None yet.