Changes Announced on May 18, 2026

Changes announced for Protocol Buffers on March 18, 2026.

Dropping support for older versions of .NET

As per our official .NET support policy, we will be enforcing the lack of support for .NET 7.0 and lower in the 36.x release.

The minimum supported .NET version has officially been 8.0 since November 2024 per Foundational .NET Support. 36.x will align our C# project files to match our official support.