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Note that .NET 5.0 is not an LTS release:

> .NET 5.0 is a current release. That means that it will be supported for three months after .NET 6.0 is released. As a result, we expect to support .NET 5.0 through the middle of February 2022. .NET 6.0 will be an LTS release and will be supported for three years, just like .NET Core 3.1.

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I believe Microsoft are still recommending people move to .NET 5 though. Unless you're extremely risk averse it seems like a very simple upgrade from 3.1 to 5 and hopefully 5 to 6 next November (which will be the LTS release) is the same.

I just did a straight up find-replace for `netcoreapp3.1` -> `net5.0` across 66 projects, built and passed tests without a hitch. Zero issues so far outside of the warnings resulting from enhanced nullable reference type smarts .

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