diff --git a/src/Tasks/Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks/targets/Microsoft.NET.RuntimeIdentifierInference.targets b/src/Tasks/Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks/targets/Microsoft.NET.RuntimeIdentifierInference.targets
index 0b3ef22f77dc..7fa3299b4705 100644
--- a/src/Tasks/Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks/targets/Microsoft.NET.RuntimeIdentifierInference.targets
+++ b/src/Tasks/Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks/targets/Microsoft.NET.RuntimeIdentifierInference.targets
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
     <RuntimeIdentifier Condition="'$(PlatformTarget)' == 'x86' or '$(PlatformTarget)' == ''">win7-x86</RuntimeIdentifier>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
+  <!-- Breaking change in .NET 8: Some publish properties used to imply SelfContained or require it at the time of this PR to work. We decided to infer SelfContained still in these situations. -->
+  <PublishSelfContained Condition="'$(SelfContained)' == '' and
+                                    '$(PublishSelfContained)' == '' and
+                                    '$(_TargetFrameworkVersionWithoutV)' &gt; '7.0' and
+                                    (
+                                        '$(PublishTrimmed)' == 'true' or
+                                        '$(PublishSingleFile)' == 'true' or
+                                        '$(PublishAot)' == 'true'
+                                    )">true</PublishSelfContained>
+
   <!-- Edit SelfContained to match the value of PublishSelfContained if we are publishing.
        This Won't affect t:/Publish (because of _IsPublishing), and also won't override a global SelfContained property.-->
   <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(_IsPublishing)' == 'true' and ('$(PublishSelfContained)' == 'true' or '$(PublishSelfContained)' == 'false')">
@@ -149,7 +159,7 @@ Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
     <_SelfContainedWasSpecified Condition="'$(SelfContained)' != ''">true</_SelfContainedWasSpecified>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(TargetFrameworkIdentifier)' == '.NETCoreApp' and '$(HasRuntimeOutput)' == 'true'">
-    <!-- Breaking change below! Projects with 8.0+ TFMS will no longer have RuntimeIdentifier imply SelfContained. -->
+    <!-- Breaking change in .NET 8: Projects with 8.0+ TFMS will no longer have RuntimeIdentifier imply SelfContained. Note that PublishReadyToRun will imply SelfContained in these versions. -->
     <SelfContained Condition="'$(SelfContained)' == '' and '$(RuntimeIdentifier)' != '' and
                               '$(_TargetFrameworkVersionWithoutV)' &lt; '8.0'">true</SelfContained>
     <SelfContained Condition="'$(SelfContained)' == ''">false</SelfContained>