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Announcing NuGet 6.5 – The Sweetest Way to Manage Your Packages

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23
authorsJon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev
NuGet 6.5 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 7.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.5 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. Tired of the sour taste of managing packages? NuGet 6.5 brings a new flavor of seamless central package management, simple package source mapping management, useful JSON machine ...

Introducing Search By Target Framework on NuGet.org

February 14, 2023 Feb 14, 2023 02/14/23
authorsJon Douglas, Advay Tandon
Last year, we brought a new feature to improve the way you assess target framework compatibility of a NuGet package through a new "Frameworks" tab. Today, we are announcing a new feature that will allow you to search by a target framework on NuGet.org. Here’s how it looks: The first thing you might notice is that there is a new “...

Announcing NuGet 6.4 – Signed, Central, Delivered

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22
authorsJon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev
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
authorsJon 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 ...

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 ...