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September 2015 - The NuGet Blog

Why did my package download count suddenly go up

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15
Maarten Balliauw
Last week, we released our Revised Download Counts and Package Statistics that are now based on the raw logs of our CDN. For this to become reality, we had to also import data from our old statistics data warehouse into the new system. As it turns out, we overlooked something very important: in the old system (and by importing data, also in ...

Meet the new NuGet status page

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15
Maarten Balliauw
On the server side we are working on boosting performance, scalability and reliability. We were also in need of a new status page to better communicate the status of the service. Without further ado: meet the new status.nuget.org! We're happy with this new incarnation of our status page. It not only shows whether individual services are up ...

Revised Download Counts and Package Statistics

September 24, 2015 Sep 24, 2015 09/24/15
Maarten Balliauw
In the last few months we have been hard at work on the NuGet.org backend. One of the things we've done is switch to a new CDN. This work is all about reinforcing the foundations of nuget.org so we provide a better service experience and be in a position to build new features reliably. As a result we're happy to announce package statistics are...

Accelerate your network share hosted Package Source

September 22, 2015 Sep 22, 2015 09/22/15
Andrew Arnott
This is a guest blog, by Andrew Arnott from the Visual Studio team. Andrew was having performance issues with NuGet updating or installing packages from a UNC share. These issues where well known, and our solution in the past was to point people to http servers. We discussed this issue with Andrew and suggested that the new supported folder ...

Announcing the NuGet 3.2 release

September 16, 2015 Sep 16, 2015 09/16/15
Jeffrey Fritz
Today we are publishing the version 3.2 updates to the NuGet clients. We took customer feedback regarding issues and feature direction and assembled this release to address those immediate concerns. There are fixes available for a number of blocking issues and adds support for push and list for compliant V3 servers. We also added support for ...

NuGet Command line and Visual Studio 2015 Extension 3.2 RC released

September 2, 2015 Sep 2, 2015 09/2/15
Yishai Galatzer
Today we are releasing nuget.exe 3.2-RC command line. In addition to fixing a significant number of bugs, support has been added for push and list for compliant V3 servers. This wave also includes a release of the visual studio extension version 3.2-RC. This version is about addressing top blocking customer scenarios. The 3.2 RTM release is ...