Ngokukhishwa kwe-NET Core 3.0 kulo nyaka, iMicrosoft iplathifomu ye-NET 5, ezoba ngcono kakhulu ohlelweni lokuthuthukisa lulonke. Ukuqamba okusha okuyinhloko, uma kuqhathaniswa ne-.NET Framework 4.8, kuzoba ukusekelwa kwe-Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS kanye neWebAssembly. Ngesikhathi esifanayo, inguqulo 4.8 izohlala ingeyokugcina; umndeni wakwaCore kuphela ozothuthukiswa.
Kubikwa ukuthi ukuthuthukiswa kuzogxila ku-Runtime, JIT, AOT, GC, BCL (Base Class Library), C#, VB.NET, F#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, ML.NET, WinForms, WPF kanye ne-Xamarin. Lokhu kuzohlanganisa inkundla futhi kunikeze uhlaka olulodwa oluvulekile nesikhathi sokusebenza semisebenzi ehlukahlukene. Ngenxa yalokho, kuzokwazi ukudala izinhlelo zokusebenza zamapulatifomu ahlukene kwisisekelo sekhodi evamile ngenqubo efanayo yokwakha, kungakhathaliseki ukuthi yiluphi uhlobo lohlelo lokusebenza.
I-NET 5 kulindeleke ukuthi ikhishwe ngoNovemba 2020 futhi izoba inkundla yentuthuko yendawo yonke ngempela. Ngasikhathi sinye, "ezinhlanu" akuyona ukuphela kokuqanjwa kweMicrosoft ebhizinisini lomthombo ovulekile. Inkampani isivele isinayo I-Windows Subsystem ye-Linux (WSL) yenguqulo yesibili, okufanele isheshe izikhathi eziningi kuneyokuqala, futhi isekelwe ekwakhiweni kwayo kwe-Linux kernel.
Ngokungafani nenguqulo yokuqala, lena i-kernel egcwele, hhayi isendlalelo sokulingisa. Le ndlela izosheshisa izikhathi zokuqalisa, ithuthukise ukusetshenziswa kwe-RAM kanye nesistimu yefayela I/O, futhi ivumele iziqukathi ze-Docker ukuthi zisebenze ngokuqondile.
Okuthakazelisa kakhulu ukuthi inkampani ithembisa ukuthi ngeke iyivale i-kernel futhi yenze yonke intuthuko kuyo itholakale emphakathini. Kulesi simo, ngeke kube nokuxhumeka kumathuluzi okusabalalisa. Abasebenzisi, njengangaphambili, bangalanda noma yisiphi isithombe esibafanele.