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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon microsoft

Quantum Development Kit should be updated to .NET 6

Open ricardo-espinoza opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

With the upcoming release of .NET6 on November 9th, 2021 we'll have a new LTS version which will be supported until the end 2024. See here the official .NET support policy.

Currently, the QDK is built on, and requires .NET 3.1, which is the current LTS version. However, this version is already almost two years old and approaching the end of its supported lifetime.

We're proposing to update the target SDK of the QDK binaries to be based on .NET6 and make this version the new minimum required one.

This migration will bring the following benefits:

  • Based on a newer version with a long support lifetime ahead.
  • Enable C# 10 features in the QDK binaries.
  • Align with the recommended and default version that users will get when downloading .NET.

ricardo-espinoza avatar Oct 27 '21 01:10 ricardo-espinoza