.NET April 2021 Updates – .NET 5.0.5, .NET Core 3.1.14, .NET Core 2.1.27

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

April 6th, 20211 0

Today, we are releasing the .NET April 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other non-security improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages.

You can download 5.0.5 | 3.1.14 | 2.1.27 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x64, Arm32, and Arm64.

Installers and binaries: 5.0.5 | 3.1.14 | 2.1.27
Release notes: 5.0.5 | 3.1.14 | 2.1.27
Container images
Linux packages: 5.0.5 | 3.1.14 | 2.1.27
Release feedback/issues
Known issues: 5.0 | 3.1 | 2.1

Improvements

Runtime : 5.0.5
ASP.NET Core : 5.0.5 | 2.1.27
EntityFramework Core : 5.0.5
Winforms: 5.0.5
CoreCLR: 3.1.14
Setup: 3.1.14

.NET 5 NuGet Restore Failures on Linux distributions using NSS or ca-certificates

.NET SDK 5.0.202 resolves an issue where NuGet restore fails on Linux due to expired NuGet certificates and unfortunate interactions with changes made to root certificates stores on Linux, carried by ca-certificates and nss packages.