Can I update to .Net 5 NuGet packages even if I'm using .Net Core 3.1?

Question

I was looking for some NuGet updates about my project libraries. I see that there are a lot of Microsoft libraries update to v5.0.0.

Based on my knowledge I t

Answer 1

You should report such (VS for Mac and VS for Windows) as product defects to Microsoft, as many of the new 5.0 packages are targeting net5 solely, and not applicable to netcoreapp3.1.

Try to use outdated tool to check package updates, which is much more reliable,

https://github.com/dotnet-outdated/dotnet-outdated