Deprecating NuGet.org authentication

Anand GauravFebruary 27, 2018Feb 27, 201802/27/18

As announced in our NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap blog post, we are transitioning away from NuGet.org’s home-grown authentication mechanism which will eventually allow us to add support for additional security systems such as two-factor authentication (2-FA). In preparation for this transition, we had already added support for Microsoft accounts (

NuGet.org package publishing workflow – behind the scenes

Anand GauravFebruary 1, 2018Feb 1, 201802/1/18

In December 2017, we changed the NuGet.org backend publishing pipeline to introduce a set of validation steps for submitted packages. Our goal is to maintain the same level of experience in terms of the time and effort it would take to publish a package and have it available for download. However, these new validation steps caused a few incide