A user is asking that as a company they have security concerns with the running of .Net 5. and are asking if there are any concerns etc from Skyline if they were to install .Net 8 on the DMS servers that are currently running DataMiner (10.2.0.0-12706-CU12).
Hi Chris,
The .NET (framework) requirements for DataMiner can be found in Compute Requirements section of the documentation, more specifically: Microsoft .NET.
From DataMiner v10.1.11 onwards, the minimum .NET framework version required is v4.8, but we recommend updating to the latest available version (currently v4.8.1 - .NET Framework & Windows OS versions - .NET Framework | Microsoft Learn).
Required .NET version since 10.1.11 is .NET 5. As from 10.3.9/10.4.0 (and higher), we only require .NET 6.0 (and not .NET 5.0 anymore).
Note: The above table is with information known today and might be different for upcoming new DM versions.
Kind Regards,
Jarno
.NET versions, including .NET 6, .NET 7, and .NET 8, are designed to be backward compatible, meaning that applications built for an older version should generally work on newer versions. However, there could be breaking changes or specific features that are deprecated or removed in newer versions.
I would advise you to still have NET6 installed unless our software team explicitly says differently.
Hi Chris,
You can find a detailed overview of the server requirements on the docs.
The .NET versions seem to be backwards compatible from version 4.5 onwards according to documentation. However, I'm not sure if additional configuration is necessary on the DataMiner server.
Kind regards,
Hi Jarno Thanks for your reply and the Compute Requirements do show the Required .NET versions for each Dataminer version but does this mean we dont currently support .NET 8.0 or is this backward compatible with .NET 6.0 do you know as it is not clear when doing a google search if this is the case. Thanks