Microsoft.AspNetCore/2.3.0

[gravity00]

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Describe the bug

Hello,

Some hours ago Microsoft released version 2.3.0 of both Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers with a dependency on version 8 of some helper libraries, like Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory, instead of version 2.

This is causing problems compiling and running some of our older applications since it implicitly forces an upgrade on libraries like Microsoft.Extensions.Options or Microsoft.Extensions.Logging, which have some significant breaking changes from version 2 up to 8.

The fix is to change de project dependencies and ensure these libraries are fixed on version 2.2.0. instead of 2.x

What I'm finding odd is that these libraries aren't maintained anymore and this doesn't look like to be made on purpose, specially a release 7 years later.

Expected Behavior

Keep the dependencies of Microsoft.Extension.* libraries on version 2 instead of upgrading to version 8.

Steps To Reproduce

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Exceptions (if any)

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.NET Version

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[gravity00]

Actually, this isn't constrained to only these two packages, but to all the Microsoft.AspNetCore.* listed packages.

[wtgodbe]

This is intentional, see #58598. 2.2 has been out of support since 2019, and the netcoreapp2.1 TFM since 2021. Apps should still work when targeting .NET Framework.