Feature Announcement

Announcing NuGet 6.4 – Signed, Central, Delivered

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22

NuGet 6.4 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 7.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.4 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.4 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 ...

Announcing NuGet 6.3 – Transitive Dependencies, Floating Versions, and Re-enabling Signed Package Verification

August 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 08/9/22

Jon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev

NuGet 6.3 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.3 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.3 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 ...

Introducing Transitive Dependencies in Visual Studio

August 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 08/9/22

Jon Douglas, Jean-Pierre Briedé

We heard from you that direct dependencies are easy to track, but that you struggle with tracking transitive dependencies. We want to make that easier for the day-to-day management of your NuGet packages in Visual Studio. To help you track transitive dependencies and remediate vulnerabilities quickly with SDK-style projects, we are ...

Quickly Map Your NuGet Packages to Sources

May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22

Erick Yondon

Package Source Mapper When we introduced Package Source Mapping late last year, we noticed a certain challenge to make onboarding to using the feature easier. Could there be a way for us to automatically generate a NuGet.config for you based on your project’s known packages and sources? We started to develop a tool that does just that for ...

Introducing Central Package Management

April 12, 2022 Apr 12, 2022 04/12/22

Jeff Kluge

Central Package Management Dependency management is a core feature of NuGet. Managing dependencies for a single project can be easy. Managing dependencies for multi-project solutions can prove to be difficult as they start to scale in size and complexity. In situations where you manage common dependencies for many different projects, you can ...

Introducing Compatible Packages on NuGet.org

February 15, 2022 Feb 15, 2022 02/15/22

Jon Douglas

As part of our ongoing commitment to improve the NuGet ecosystem, today we are excited to introduce a couple new features on NuGet.org to help you determine if a package is compatible with the target frameworks you know and love. This is how it looks: You will now have a new "Frameworks" tab on any package details page. This will give ...

Announcing NuGet 6.0 – Source Mapping, Package Vulnerabilities, Faster Solution Load, Oh My!

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Jon Douglas

NuGet 6.0 - Source Mapping, Package Vulnerabilities, Faster Solution Load, Oh My! NuGet 6.0 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.0 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps ...

Introducing the New NuGet.org Package Details Page

September 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 09/23/21

Jiachen Jiang

Today, we are excited to announce a massive makeover for the package details page on NuGet.org. We built NuGet.org to help .NET developers find packages that will accelerate their projects, and this latest update has changes meant to help package consumers and authors alike.

Introducing Package Source Mapping

September 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021 09/15/21

Nikolche Kolev

We're happy to announce the first preview release of Package Source Mapping with Visual Studio 2022 preview 4! Package Source Mapping gives you fine-grained control of where your packages come from by mapping every package in your solution to a target package source.

IntelliCode Package Suggestions for NuGet in Visual Studio

June 2, 2021 Jun 2, 2021 06/2/21

Christopher Gill

Building on Visual Studio’s robust IntelliCode experience for .NET, we’re excited to introduce NuGet IntelliCode Package Suggestions in Visual Studio 16.10! IntelliCode Package Suggestions use your project’s context, such as installed packages and project type, to suggest packages to enhance your workflow! IntelliCode AI-assistance has ...

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