Hello,

I'm sure some of you have seen the new roadmap page at http://www.dnnsoftware.com/community/learn/roadmap -this is a work in progress, but one thing I thought worth public debate is what version of .net we should be taking a dependency on next year. We recognise that we have to move forward, so .net 4.5 is a sensible jump, but I think that perhaps 4.5.1 is a better option as it introduces the support for app suspension and multi-core jit (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/dn574802.aspx ) so many sites will benefit greatly from that.

If I look at 4.5.2 the benefits aren't as dramatic (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/05/05/announcing-the-net-framework-4-5-2-release.aspx ), but I noticed Microsoft posted a blog last week about future support (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/08/07/moving-to-the-net-framework-4-5-2.aspx) , which suggests to me that we really should target 4.5.2 as the new dependency.

Rather than argue about this behind closed doors with other Corp employees/MVP's, I thought it would be best to post my thoughts and see what people think -is moving to 4.5.2 the right idea or too soon? Would 4.5.1 be better and then move to 4.5.2 a year later, or is anything more than 4.5.0 a bad idea?

Comments welcome!

The intent is to do this as part of the DNN 8.0 release in Q1 of 2015.  This is still a good 6 months away so there is plenty of time for this to come out on WUS and WSUS.