April 2013 | The NuGet Blog

A quick note about the new MinClientVersion attribute

Luan NguyenApril 30, 2013Apr 30, 201304/30/13

In the NuGet 2.5 release, we added the MinClientVersion property to the package manifest schema to allow for a package to demand the minimum version of the NuGet client that can install it. Because this feature was added in version 2.5, older versions of NuGet won't be able to recognize it. Therefore, older clients will always refuse to insta

Support for Native Projects

Jeff HandleyApril 26, 2013Apr 26, 201304/26/13

In the NuGet 2.5 release notes, we called out that NuGet now has support for native projects. We wanted to explain exactly what "support for native projects" means. Visual Studio Support Until NuGet 2.5, if you were working in a Visual C++ project, the 'Manage NuGet Packages' context menu would not show up for the project; with NuGet 2.5, we

NuGet 2.5 Released

Jeff HandleyApril 25, 2013Apr 25, 201304/25/13

Download it now NuGet was included in all editions of Visual Studio 2012 and it's also available for Visual Studio 2010 through the Visual Studio Extension Manager. To get the latest version of NuGet installed in Visual Studio, either check for updates in the extension manager or download the latest version directly. Acknowledgements We wou

XDT web.config transforms

Jeff HandleyApril 22, 2013Apr 22, 201304/22/13

Sitting there since October 12, 2010, with a total of 55 votes accumulated since then, there's a NuGet feature that has had more than its fair share of attention: Support Visual Studio (XDT) Web.config Transforms. It's the 17th highest voted work item of all time for NuGet, and the 5th highest voted open work item. Today, we are announcing tha

Goodbye preview.nuget.org. Hello staging.nuget.org!

Andrew Stanton-NurseApril 19, 2013Apr 19, 201304/19/13

TL;DR The preview.nuget.org site is going away. Switch to staging.nuget.org by April 26th! Goodbye preview.nuget.org We have a version of the NuGet Gallery called "Preview" and it's been hosted at preview.nuget.org since early in the Gallery's lifetime. Until recently, our QA team used preview.nuget.org to do their testing, but we've also oc

NuGet 2.5 Release Candidate

Jeff HandleyApril 15, 2013Apr 15, 201304/15/13

Updated: The NuGet 2.5 Release Candidate was available from April 15 to April 25, 2013. For the several hundred of you that downloaded the release candidate, we truly appreciate your verification of the RC build that became the final release. What's Included in NuGet 2.5 This release was so big, we felt compelled to skip versions 2.3 and 2.4

Recent NuGet Gallery Updates

Jeff HandleyApril 11, 2013Apr 11, 201304/11/13

The NuGet Gallery crew has gotten into a rhythm of publishing updates every 2 weeks. With the increased update frequency, we found that we needed to create a changelog to highlight new features. That changelog is now available directly from within our source repository on GitHub. You can access the changelog directly here: https://github.com/

The March 6th NuGet Gallery Outage

Tim Lovell-SmithApril 4, 2013Apr 4, 201304/4/13

On March 6th 2013, nuget.org's package download was broken for one and a half hours. Some outages involve factors beyond our control; this time it was very much our own fault and we would like to apologize. We also want to openly discuss the outage and reassure you that we are working on preventing reoccurences. Timeline of events The outage

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