[Windows & Ubuntu] .NET 6 will be removed from the images on 2025-08-01.

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Breaking changes

.NET 6 version will be removed from Windows and Ubuntu images

Target date

Image deployment will start on 2025-07-28 and will take 2-3 days

The motivation for the changes

According to our Software and image guidelines tools and versions have to be removed 6 months after they are deprecated or have reached end-of-life.

Possible impact

If your project depends on a pre-installed .NET 6 it can be broken.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• macOS 15
• macOS 15 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2025

Mitigation ways

To install any version in runtime you can use the following action\task:

https://github.com/actions/setup-dotnet for GH actions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/tool/dotnet-core-tool-installer?view=azure-devops task for AzDO

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