.NET Snap Ownership Transfer from Microsoft to Canonical

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Summary

In May 2024, the responsibility for building, publishing, and supporting .NET Snaps will be transferred from Microsoft to Canonical. This transfer will also leverage Canonical expertise with Snap packaging and enhance the design of .NET Snaps for added improvements. Canonical is currently working on creating new .NET Snap packages.

You will continue to leverage Snaps to install/update .NET for all the supported .NET versions (currently include .NET 6, .NET 7, and .NET 8). Like the current state, you can use Snap to install .NET SDK and .NET Runtime.

Important Dates, Impact, and Call to Action

1. The ownership transfer of the existing .NET Snaps from Microsoft to Canonical.

   Date: May 2024 (Stay tuned for exact date)
   Impact: No impact on .NET Snap user
   Call to action: No action needed.

2. Transition from the old Snap packages to the newly built Snaps by Canonical.

   Impact:

• New Snap will package Canonical-built .NET. As Canonical does not build/publish .2xx and higher SDK feature bands due to breaking changes, new Snap will only support .1xx SDK feature band for the lifetime of a major .NET version.

• .NET previews (.NET 9 previews) will not be available to install via Snap.

  Stay tuned for date and call to action to switch from old to new .NET Snaps.

Issue Log

After ownership is transferred from Microsoft to Canonical in May, log any .NET Snap issues to the dotnet-snap repository under the Canonical org https://github.com/canonical/dotnet-snap.

Important Links

.NET SDK Snap Store
Canonical GitHub Repository

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Quick update:

On 30 April 2024, all existing .NET Snaps are now transferred from Microsoft to Canonical -

.NET SDK - Install .NET Core SDK on Linux | Snap Store (snapcraft.io)
.NET Runtime 8 - Install dotnet-runtime-80 on Linux | Snap Store (snapcraft.io)
.NET Runtime 7 - Install dotnet-runtime-70 on Linux | Snap Store (snapcraft.io)
.NET Runtime 6 - Install dotnet-runtime-60 on Linux | Snap Store (snapcraft.io)
.NET Runtime 5 - Install .NET Runtime 5.0 on Linux | Snap Store (snapcraft.io)
.NET Runtime 3.1 - Install .NET Runtime 3.1 (LTS) on Linux | Snap Store (snapcraft.io)