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How to Scan NuGet Packages for Security Vulnerabilities

Drew Gillies March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Today, we are announcing the public availability of NuGet’s vulnerability features that you can use to ensure your projects are vulnerability free and if not, to take action to securing your software supply chain.

Getting Started With NuGet 5.8

Jon Douglas November 13, 2020 Nov 13, 2020 11/13/20

NuGet 5.8 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps developers discover new .NET packages to use for their .NET applications, while making package management easier during your daily development.

View dependent packages on NuGet.org

Christopher Gill August 20, 2020 Aug 20, 2020 08/20/20

We're excited to announce that you can now view dependent packages in the new Used By section on NuGet.org, yet another major improvement to the package evaluation experience!

Advanced search on NuGet.org

Mohamed Riad Gahlouz August 7, 2020 Aug 7, 2020 08/7/20

We are excited to announce that NuGet.org now supports one of our top customer asks - advanced search! You can now use a multitude of sorting and filtering criteria to help find the best NuGet packages for your needs!

Deprecating packages on nuget.org

Anand Gaurav September 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 09/30/19

We are excited to announce that nuget.org now supports package deprecation. This has been a long standing ask that will help the ecosystem use supported packages. As a package publisher on nuget.org, you can now deprecate packages that are obsolete, legacy, or buggy. You can also suggest an alternate package to your deprecated package. This ...

New and improved NuGet Search is here!

Karan Nandwani August 22, 2019 Aug 22, 2019 08/22/19

It’s been a long time coming, and today we are excited to announce the new and improved search on NuGet.org leveraging Azure Search. We want to start this post with a huge thanks to you, the NuGet community, for providing feedback. We have aggregated all feedback around search result relevance into one mega issue. We used this as the ...

Surfacing GitHub Usage for packages on NuGet.org

Mohamed Riad Gahlouz July 17, 2019 Jul 17, 2019 07/17/19

Update: This feature has been enhanced. Read about the latest version. There are several criteria you can use today to evaluate NuGet packages. We received feedback that you would like even more information to help choose the right packages. We're excited to introduce GitHub Usage on nuget.org, which allows you to explore top GitHub ...

Enable repeatable package restores using a lock file

Anand Gaurav December 17, 2018 Dec 17, 2018 12/17/18

With PackageReference, NuGet always tries to produce the same closure of package dependencies if the input package reference list has not changed. However, there are a few scenarios where it may not be able to do so. While these cases are limited, we received multiple requests to completely lock down the full package dependency graph for ...

Improved package debugging experience with the NuGet.org symbol server

Karan Nandwani November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18

Starting today, you can publish symbol packages to the NuGet.org symbol server. With NuGet.org as a single service provider for libraries and symbols, package authors and consumers will have a streamlined publishing and consumption experience. With a single place for managing authentication and identity, you can be sure that both the package ...

Introducing Source Code Link for NuGet packages

Maxime Rouiller August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18

NuGet.org now supports surfacing source code repository link for NuGet packages. This will enable package authors to surface both the project's website and the source repository using the projectUrl and the repository properties respectively instead of having to choose between the two using just the projectUrl property. The nuspec has ...

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