.NET 5 is the next major release of .NET Core following 3.1. This release was named .NET 5 instead of .NET Core 4 for two reasons: Version numbers 4.x were skipped to avoid confusion with .NET Framework 4.x. "Core" was dropped from the name to emphasize that this is the main implementation of .NET going forward. .NET 5 supports more types of apps and more platforms than .NET Core or .NET Framework
