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NuGet 3.3 Release
Big news: a new version of the NuGet clients has been released! This is version 3.3 of the client, with a new command-line and Visual Studio 2015 extension available for use. Use the above links to download from the NuGet distribution site, also accessible with the 'Downloads' menu item above. This is a release that the NuGet team worked closely with community influencers to ensure it closed some of the usability gaps and made packages a bit easier to build. Complete details of this version are available in the v3.3 release notes, but lets take a look at the highlights of this release: User Interface Updates Si...
Updates to Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
We just released Beta4 of ASP.NET WebHooks Preview with a nice set of new features based on feedback and help from the community! Always let us know what you think – either by raising a issue on GitHub or pinging me on twitter. You can get the update from nuget.org by looking for the packages under Microsoft.AspNet.WebHooks.*. If you haven’t heard about ASP.NET WebHooks then you may want to look at Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview. Here’s what’s new: Storing WebHook Registrations in SQL This feature is from a pull request from Ryan Posener -- thanks! It enables storing Custom WebHook Registration...
Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is not supported. We are pleased to announce the release of .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC today. This release includes ~150 fixes and some new features. You can read about the new fixes and features that are included in the RC release and try out the bits using the links below. Here is a summary of the few of the updates and key improvements we are introducing today: You can download and try out the release now: .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC You can learn more about this release by loo...
.NET Core and ASP.NET Launches a Beta Bug Bounty Program.
A guest post from Barry Dorrans, the security lead for ASP.NETToday, with great excitement, we announce an introductory 3 month bug bounty program for .NET Core and ASP.NET, our new open source, cross platform runtime and web stack. The program encompasses the latest beta version, beta 8 and any subsequent beta or release candidates released during the program period.We recognize that you, our customers, rely on our platforms and development tools to write your own software. The more secure we can make our frameworks the more secure your software can be. We take your trust seriously and this program is part ...
Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8
ASP.NET 5 beta8 is now available both on NuGet and as a tooling update to Visual Studio 2015! This release greatly expands the supported surface area of .NET Core on OS X and Linux. You can now use networking, cryptography and globalization features cross-platform! This release also includes some nice improvements to ASP.NET 5, DNX and the Web tools. Let’s take a look at how we can get started with ASP.NET 5 beta8. Installation You can find instructions in our documentation for installing ASP.NET 5 beta8 on Windows, Mac and Linux. New Features Below is a summary of some of the new features in ASP.N...
NuGet 3 – Visual Studio User Interface Discussion
We want to continue our discussion of the recent changes made to the NuGet experience with the v3 releases, and in this second blog post of the series we are going to focus on the user interface updates that were made for Visual Studio 2015. I touched on it briefly in our last blog post about What and Why, but this time lets go a little deeper into the functionality and then explore the changes that are being made. 2013 compared to 2015 We showed this side-by-side comparison in the last blog post, and it helps to show immediately what has changed: I covered the good, bad, and ugly about this user interface p...
NuGet 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC released
Today we are releasing nuget.exe 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC. A number of issues were identified in both versions that prevented interoperability on Linux and OSX operating systems. We also made some fixes to 3.2 in order to reduce network utilization. Changes Below are the top highlights of these releases 2.9-RC The complete 2.9 issue list is available in GitHub 3.2.1-RC The complete 3.2.1 issue list is available in GitHub Download from NuGet 3.2.1 extension for Visual Studio 2015 https://dist.nuget.org/visualstudio-2015-vsix/v3.2.1-rc/NuGet.Tools.vsix NuGet 3.2.1 command line https://dist.n...
NuGet 3 – What and Why?
Since Visual Studio 2015 was released in July, developers have started using a new version of NuGet, NuGet 3 We decided to introduce a number of significant changes based on feedback from the community. With any major version change, some things break… and usually for a good reason. We have bugs and issues that we are addressing and want to share what the plan was for versions 3.x and what the plan is for the future. The NuGet 2.x code base proved to be tightly coupling user interface and protocol. NuGet 3 included a major rewrite of the code base to allow for supporting the new V3 nuget server Protocol. User ...
Package Content and Removals
The NuGet community is awesome; involved and eager to build software to make it easy for use in bigger projects that the components and libraries that they themselves are building. Every now and again, community members can get a little too eager. This post is going to address a recent issue that was presented to the NuGet.org administrators. In the terms of use for the NuGet.org service: "You may not upload or transmit any material that infringes or misappropriates any person's copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret, or disclose via the Website any information the disclosure of which would constitute a v...