For how long our Azure Function (version 6) will stay secure and functional

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For how long our Azure Function (version 6) will stay secure and functional

john john 1,021

I want to create around 10 Azure Functions which integrate with our SharePoint lists/libraries. now i will create them based on version 6.0 LTS, as follow:- User's image

now as i know that .net 6.0 will reach its end of life on november 2024.. so will our azure functions need to be upgraded to the latest version (.net 8) after November 2024? second question, is there a point of time in the future where our Azure function will stop working if they have not been upgraded? Thanks

VenkateshDodda-MSFT 25,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-18T04:22:30.3966667+00:00

Hello @john john ,
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VenkateshDodda-MSFT 25,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-18T04:22:30.3966667+00:00

Hello @john john ,
I hope the answer helps. Please let me know if you have any further queries.

Please accept as Yes if the answer provided is useful, so that you can help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.

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VenkateshDodda-MSFT 25,111 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@john john Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, apologize for any inconvenience caused on this.

Yes, you need to upgrade your application to latest versions of specific runtime (.NET 8) once .NET 6 has reached to End of life.
Your applications will continue to run but you won't be eligible for new features, security patches, and performance optimizations until you upgrade them to a supported language version.
For more information, refer to this Language runtime support policy documentation.

Feel free to reach back to me if you have any further questions on this.

john john 1,021 Reputation points

2023-04-10T15:38:09.79+00:00

@VenkateshDodda-MSFT Thanks fo r the reply. but this will be a time consuming process, to upgrade the azure function each 3 years? am i correct? is there a more suitable/feasible way?

Second question. as of now April 2023, we only have the option to create azure function using 6.0 or 7.0 which both have an end of life date next year. so we can not create it using .net 8.0 as of today?
VenkateshDodda-MSFT 25,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-04-11T06:51:10.54+00:00
@john john Thanks for your follow up questions on this.

I understood yes, that is a time-consuming process to upgrade the function runtime to latest but. It is always recommended to run your application/workloads to latest runtime versions. At this moment, once a specific runtime version is about to EOF then you will receive a notification atleast one year before asking to upgrade to latest supported version.

As per the blogpost /documentation, .NET 8 is scheduled to be publicly available in November 2023(No exact ETA at the moment) as per the release cadence once it got released and our function tean will release/deploy the .NET 8 on the backend workers and currently, we don't have any way to create function app with .NET 8 runtime.

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