.NET/C# RabbitMQ Client Library

Overview

The RabbitMQ .NET client is an implementation of an AMQP 0-9-1 client library for C# (and, implicitly, other .NET languages).

Release Series

The following table explains what RabbitMQ .NET client release series targets what .NET standard (or .NET framework) version.

Library Release Series	Required .NET Framework/Standard/Flavor Versions	Support status
7.x (in development)	.NET Framework 4.6.1+ or a .NET 5 through 7	in development
6.x	.NET Framework 4.6.1+ or a .NET 5 through 7	supported
5.x	.NET Framework 4.5.1+ or a .NET 5 through 6	end of life
4.x	.NET Framework 4.5.1+ or a .NET Standard 1.5+ implementation	end of life
3.4.x	.NET Framework 3.5	end of life
3.3.x	.NET Framework 2.0	end of life

Licensing

The library is open-source, and is dual-licensed under the the Apache License v2 and the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

This means that the user can consider the library to be licensed under any of the licenses from the list above. For example, the user may choose the Apache Public License 2.0 and include this client into a commercial product. Codebases that are licensed under the GPLv2 may choose GPLv2, and so on.

NuGet

Recent versions of the library are exclusively distributed via NuGet.

The most recent release is available via NuGet. Release notes can be found on GitHub.

Documentation

Please refer to the RabbitMQ tutorials and .NET client user guide.

There's also an online API reference.

Change log

4.x and later release notes are published to GitHub.

Binary Downloads

Modern versions of this library (e.g. 6.x) are distributed as a NuGet package.

Description	Download
6.x NuGet package	RabbitMQ.Client NuGet package
5.x NuGet package	RabbitMQ.Client NuGet package
4.x NuGet package	RabbitMQ.Client NuGet package
3.x NuGet package	RabbitMQ.Client NuGet package

Source Repository on GitHub

The .NET RabbitMQ client library is hosted and developed on GitHub.

Please see the .NET client build guide for instructions on compiling from source.

To clone the repo from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-dotnet-client

In order to compile or run the RabbitMQ .NET/C# client library, please follow the build instructions.

Strong Naming

The client assembly is strong named. The public key token is 89e7d7c5feba84ce and the public part of the signing key is

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c3153a77faa2d80e6e43b5db93224a20cc7ae384f65f142e89730e2ff0fcc5d578bbe96fa98a71
96c77329efdee4579b3814c0789e5a39b51df6edd75b602a33ceabdfcf19a3feb832f31d825416
8cd7ba5700dfbca301fbf8db614ba41ba18474de0a5f4c2d51c995bc3636c641c8cbe76f45717b
fcb943b5.