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**for a free trial of Elastic Cloud**.

The .NET client for Elasticsearch provides strongly typed requests and responses
for Elasticsearch APIs. It delegates protocol handling to the
[Elastic.Transport](https://github.com/elastic/elastic-transport-net) library,
for Elasticsearch APIs. It delegates protocol handling to the
[Elastic.Transport](https://github.com/elastic/elastic-transport-net) library,
which takes care of all transport-level concerns (HTTP connection establishment
and pooling, retries, etc.).

## Versioning

The *major* and *minor* version parts of the Elasticsearch .NET client are dictated by the version of the Elasticsearch server.

> [!WARNING]
> This means that the Elasticsearch .NET client **does not** strictly follows semantic versioning!
>
> Although we try to avoid this as much as possible, it can happen that a *minor* or even *patch* version contains breaking changes (see also: [breaking changes policy](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/current/breaking-changes-policy.html)). Please always check the [release notes](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-net/releases) before updating the client package.
## Compatibility

Language clients are **forward compatible**:
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