.NET 7 End of Life Date
.NET 7 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
.NET 7 was released on November 8, 2022 and support ended on May 14, 2024 — a supported lifespan of 1 year and 6 months, shorter than the 2 years and 7 months median for .NET releases. It was not an LTS release; .NET reserves longer patch windows for its LTS releases. Its latest release on record is 7.0.20, published May 29, 2024 — 15 days after the published end-of-life date. It has been past its end-of-life date for 2 years and 6 months. 2 newer .NET releases have shipped since.
Extended support for .NET exists: vetted vendors ship security patches past the official date. Right now that coverage spans .NET 6, 8, 9, with 40+ post-EOL CVE fixes documented in vendor release notes. Whether it covers .NET 7 is part of what we check. Leave an email and we reply within one business day with matched options and pricing guidance, or an honest "no vendor covers this version." Free, no obligation; vendors do not pay for placement.
What does .NET 7 end of life mean?
When .NET 7 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: A CVE-based scan does not show the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. Running .NET 7 past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
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