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Refining Your Search: Introducing NuGet.org’s Compatible Framework Filters

Last year, we introduced search by target frameworks on NuGet.org, allowing you to filter your search results based on the framework(s) that a package targets. We received plenty of great feedback from you on how to make the filters more effective, and we are excited to announce that we are adding new search options that will now allow you to ...

Announcing NuGet 6.9

NuGet 6.9 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 8.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.9 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. In NuGet 6.9, we introduce some exciting new features and bug fixes, such as an improved multi-targeting experience in Visual Studio and support for the 'dotnet search' command. For...

Introducing NuGetSolver: A Powerful Tool for Resolving NuGet Dependency Conflicts in Visual Studio

Managing dependencies on complex projects can be overwhelming. Developers often grapple with numerous direct and transitive dependencies across multiple projects. When different projects share dependencies with varying versions, manual conflict resolution becomes necessary, which can be tedious and error-prone, as fixing one issue may ...

Announcing NuGet.exe and NuGet Client SDK Packages Support Policy: Keeping You Informed and Secure

At NuGet, our commitment is to ensure that our users have access to the latest, most secure, and well-maintained versions of our tools and packages. With this in mind, we would like to announce the NuGet Support Policy, a set of guidelines designed to keep you informed about the status of NuGet.exe and NuGet Client SDK packages on nuget.org. ...

HTTPS Everywhere Update

Mistakes were made When we first published the plan for the effort of HTTPS everywhere, we wanted to get developer community feedback on the various HTTP and HTTPS scenarios that we don't have much everyday visibility of. After we published that blog, we heard you loud and clear that there was a gap. This plan needed a clear way to suppress ...

The Microsoft author-signing certificate will be updated as soon as August 14th, 2023

Action required: If you validate that packages are author-signed by Microsoft using a NuGet client policy or the command, please follow these steps by August 14th, 2023 to avoid potential disruptions when installing new Microsoft packages. If you are unsure, we have outlined steps to check if you will be impacted. Microsoft uses an X.509 ...