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Expand Up @@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ The following MSBuild properties are documented in this section:
- [PublishReferencesDocumentationFiles](#publishreferencesdocumentationfiles)
- [PublishReferencesSymbols](#publishreferencessymbols)
- [PublishRelease](#publishrelease)
- [PublishRuntimeIdentifier](#publishruntimeidentifier)
- [PublishSelfContained](#publishselfcontained)
- [RollForward](#rollforward)
- [RuntimeFrameworkVersion](#runtimeframeworkversion)
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> - Starting in the .NET 8 SDK, `PublishRelease` defaults to `true` for projects that target .NET 8 or later. For more information, see ['dotnet publish' uses Release configuration](../compatibility/sdk/8.0/dotnet-publish-config.md).
> - This property does not affect the behavior of `dotnet build /t:Publish`, and it changes the configuration only when publishing via the .NET CLI.

### PublishRuntimeIdentifier

The `PublishRuntimeIdentifier` property lets you specify a single [runtime identifier (RID)](../rid-catalog.md) for the `dotnet publish` command. This property is similar to the [RuntimeIdentifier](#runtimeidentifier) property, except that it's specific to the `publish` verb.
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Instead of verb, we should use target as it's an MSBuild target, or just say "publishing"

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The `PublishRuntimeIdentifier` property lets you specify a single [runtime identifier (RID)](../rid-catalog.md) for the `dotnet publish` command. This property is similar to the [RuntimeIdentifier](#runtimeidentifier) property, except that it's specific to the `publish` verb.
The `PublishRuntimeIdentifier` property lets you specify a single [runtime identifier (RID)](../rid-catalog.md) for the `dotnet publish` command. This property is similar to the [RuntimeIdentifier](#runtimeidentifier) property, except that it's specific to the `publish` target.


```xml
<PropertyGroup>
<PublishRuntimeIdentifier>linux-x64</PublishRuntimeIdentifier>
</PropertyGroup>
```
### PublishSelfContained

The `PublishSelfContained` property informs `dotnet publish` to publish an app as a [self-contained app](../deploying/index.md#self-contained-deployment). This property is useful when you can't use the `--self-contained` argument for the [dotnet publish](../tools/dotnet-publish.md) command&mdash;for example, when you're publishing at the solution level. In that case, you can add the `PublishSelfContained` MSBuild property to a project or *Directory.Build.Props* file.
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