Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Client Support Policy

Last updated: March 6, 2025

Microsoft Support for WCF Client

Every Microsoft product has a lifecycle, including WCF Client. The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it's no longer supported. Knowing key dates in this lifecycle helps you make informed decisions about when to upgrade or make other changes to your software. This product is governed by the Microsoft Modern Lifecycle.

WCF Client is the .NET version of WCF client libraries and enables applications built on .NET to communicate with WCF or CoreWCF services. It ships as a set of NuGet packages and is open sourced at the dotnet/wcf repository. Its support depends on the support status for the underlying .NET platforms it runs on.

Release cadence

Starting with .NET 8, WCF Client releases closely align with the .NET release cadence for Long Term Support (LTS) versions, that is, WCF Client 8.0 was released around the same time as .NET 8 and so on.

Release support details

The following table shows supported major versions, end of support dates, and additional details.

Release support details
Version Original release date Latest patch version Patch release date Supported .NET versions Supported .NET Standard version End of support
WCF Client 8.0 December 13, 2023 8.1.2 March 5, 2025

.NET 9

.NET 8

.NET Standard 2.0 November 10, 2026
WCF Client 4.10 August 17, 2022 4.10.3 October 17, 2023

.NET 9

.NET 8

.NET Standard 2.0 November 10, 2026

.NET Framework 4.6.2 and later versions is supported for all versions of WCF Client.

Due to some breaking changes, we're extending the end of support date for WCF Client 4.10 until November 10, 2026.

Out of support versions

The following table lists WCF Client versions no longer supported.

Out of support versions
Version Original release date Latest minor version Minor release date End of support
WCF Client 6.0 May 18, 2023 6.2 November 9, 2023 November 12, 2024

The following list shows the details of the support policy for WCF Client:

Supported packages

The following packages are supported:

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