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Sagar
Sagar

Reputation: 710

.NET Framework upgrade on the Windows Azure Guest operating system

I got one email notification from Azure team that Support for .NET Framework 4.5 and below end on January 12 2016 Will it break my existing application if I do not upgrade ? or will they continue to provide backward compatibility. Below is that email.

On August 7, 2014, Microsoft announced that support will end for .NET Framework 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 on January 12, 2016. It is recommended that customers and developers complete the in-place update to .NET Framework 4.5.2 by January 12, 2016 to continue receiving technical support and security updates. Visit Microsoft .NET Framework Support Lifecycle Policy for more details.

On October 27, we announced that, Azure will update the .NET Framework in Windows Azure Guest operating system (Guest OS) family 2.x, 3.x and 4.x to .NET Framework 4.5.2 in the upcoming November Guest OS Release. Since then, we have received customers’ feedback to postpone the automatic update to an OS release with .NET 4.5.2 and provide an image with .NET 4.5.2 for test validation.

To better accommodate customers’ requirements and provide a smooth upgrade to .NET 4.5.2, Azure will update the .NET Framework in Windows Azure Guest operating system (Guest OS) family 2.x, 3.x and 4.x to .NET Framework 4.5.2 in the January 2016 Guest OS Release. Cloud services running on Guest OS family 2.x, 3.x and 4.x with automatic updates enabled will be updated to the January 2016 Guest OS with .NET Framework 4.5.2. In November, the .NET Framework installed in the default OS will not be changed. In order to help customers validate their cloud service with .NET 4.5.2, Azure will provide a second set of November OS Versions 201511-02 for with .NET 4.5.2 for manual deployment.

The following table captures the changes which will be applied.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 171

Answers (1)

Ansel
Ansel

Reputation: 335

What I got from that email is that you can still use older version of .NET framework but you won't get any support if you encounter any problem. So, does it affect you? I think not directly because it won't make you apps stop working or something like that.

It is better to always upgrade your system but it's all up to you

Upvotes: 2

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