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description: Details the policies governing support for PowerShell.
ms.date: 02/25/2025
ms.date: 10/22/2025
ms.topic: lifecycle
title: PowerShell Support Lifecycle
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[.NET Support Policy][06]. In this servicing approach, customers can choose Long Term Support (LTS)
releases or current releases.

An **LTS** release of PowerShell is built on an **LTS** release of .NET. Updates to an **LTS**
An **LTS** release of PowerShell is an **LTS** release of .NET. Updates to an **LTS**
release only contain critical security updates and servicing fixes that are designed to minimize
impact on existing workloads.

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The PowerShell support lifecycle follows the [support lifecycle of .NET][06]. The following table
lists the end-of-support dates for the current versions of PowerShell:

| Version | Release Date | End-of-support | .NET Version |
| ------------------------ | :----------: | :------------: | ------------------------- |
| PowerShell 7.6 (preview) | Future date | Future date | Built on [.NET 9.0.0][14] |
| PowerShell 7.5 | 23-Jan-2025 | 12-May-2026 | Built on [.NET 9.0.0][14] |
| PowerShell 7.4 (LTS) | 16-Nov-2023 | 10-Nov-2026 | Built on [.NET 8.0.0][13] |
| Version | Release Date | End-of-support | .NET Version |
| ------------------------ | :----------: | :------------: | --------------- |
| PowerShell 7.6 (preview) | Future date | Future date | [.NET 10.0][19] |
| PowerShell 7.5 | 23-Jan-2025 | 12-May-2026 | [.NET 9.0][14] |
| PowerShell 7.4 (LTS) | 16-Nov-2023 | 10-Nov-2026 | [.NET 8.0][13] |

The following table lists the end-of-support dates for retired versions of PowerShell:

| Version | Release Date | End-of-support | .NET Version |
| -------------------- | :----------: | :------------: | ---------------------------- |
| PowerShell 7.3 | 09-Nov-2022 | 08-May-2024 | Built on [.NET 7.0][12] |
| PowerShell 7.2 (LTS) | 08-Nov-2021 | 08-Nov-2024 | Built on [.NET 6.0][11] |
| PowerShell 7.1 | 11-Nov-2020 | 08-May-2022 | Built on [.NET 5.0][10] |
| PowerShell 7.0 (LTS) | 04-Mar-2020 | 03-Dec-2022 | Built on [.NET Core 3.1][09] |
| PowerShell 6.2 | 29-Mar-2019 | 04-Sep-2020 | Built on [.NET Core 2.1][08] |
| PowerShell 6.1 | 13-Sep-2018 | 28-Sep-2019 | Built on [.NET Core 2.1][08] |
| PowerShell 6.0 | 20-Jan-2018 | 13-Feb-2019 | Built on [.NET Core 2.0][07] |
| Version | Release Date | End-of-support | .NET Version |
| -------------------- | :----------: | :------------: | ------------------- |
| PowerShell 7.3 | 09-Nov-2022 | 08-May-2024 | [.NET 7.0][12] |
| PowerShell 7.2 (LTS) | 08-Nov-2021 | 08-Nov-2024 | [.NET 6.0][11] |
| PowerShell 7.1 | 11-Nov-2020 | 08-May-2022 | [.NET 5.0][10] |
| PowerShell 7.0 (LTS) | 04-Mar-2020 | 03-Dec-2022 | [.NET Core 3.1][09] |
| PowerShell 6.2 | 29-Mar-2019 | 04-Sep-2020 | [.NET Core 2.1][08] |
| PowerShell 6.1 | 13-Sep-2018 | 28-Sep-2019 | [.NET Core 2.1][08] |
| PowerShell 6.0 | 20-Jan-2018 | 13-Feb-2019 | [.NET Core 2.0][07] |

## Windows PowerShell release history

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[16]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/new/choose
[17]: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus
[18]: https://support.serviceshub.microsoft.com/
[19]: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/10.0/supported-os.md