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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by whaleofatw2022 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:34PM (#50443463)
Yes, STS releases tend to be more experimental and the LTS shores up the gaps.
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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by jongalloway2 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:54PM (#50448000)
That may have been true in the past, but that is not the stated policy: "The quality of all releases is the same. The only difference is the length of support."

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...

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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by ThunderSizzle on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:32AM (#50450036)
Well, yes, that's the official narrative, but if you seen .net 5, .net 7, and .net 9, and .net 11 and compare them to the LTS that came after them, it's easy to see that pattern.

.net 5 brought records,and then .net 6 brought record structs.

.net 9 previewed the field keyword, and .net 10 released it.

.net 5 brought primary constructors for records, then .net 8 expanded that to classes.

There's a few opposite examples too, but it's a trend I felt over the past decade.

My only wish is they just jumped C# and .NET versions to the year number, since they are incrementing annually anyway, and aren't do semver anymore.

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