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Deprecating packages on nuget.org

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

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

Enable repeatable package restores using a lock file

December 17, 2018 Dec 17, 2018 12/17/18
Anand Gaurav
With , 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 projects to produce ...

Improved package debugging experience with the NuGet.org symbol server

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

August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18
Maxime Rouiller
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 and the properties respectively instead of having to choose between the two using just the property. The nuspec has supported the property for a while ...

Introducing signed package submissions to NuGet.org

May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018 05/22/18
Rido
In September 2017, we announced our plans to improve the security of the NuGet ecosystem by introducing the ability for package authors to sign packages. Today, we want to announce support for any NuGet.org user to submit signed packages to NuGet.org. A signed NuGet package is designed to be fully compatible with pre-existing NuGet servers ...

Organizations on NuGet.org

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18
Anand Gaurav
We are happy to announce support for Organizations on NuGet.org. This will help businesses and open-source projects collaborate on packages using a single nuget.org identity. Why organizations? NuGet.org used to allow you to create an account and publish packages through that account with little support to manage and publish packages as a ...

Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks

April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18
Karan Nandwani
Last year, we introduced the option to make PackageReference the default package management format for managing NuGet dependencies when installing the first NuGet package for a newly created projects. With Visual Studio Version 15.7 Preview 3, we have introduced the capability to migrate existing projects that use the format to use ...