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Deprecating packages on nuget.org

Anand GauravSeptember 30, 2019Sep 30, 201909/30/19

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 NandwaniAugust 22, 2019Aug 22, 201908/22/19

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 GahlouzJuly 17, 2019Jul 17, 201907/17/19

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 ...

Introducing Source Code Link for NuGet packages

Maxime RouillerAugust 27, 2018Aug 27, 201808/27/18

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 ...

NuGet.org starts repo-signing packages

RidoAugust 10, 2018Aug 10, 201808/10/18

In May, we implemented Stage 1 and enabled support for any NuGet.org user to submit signed packages to NuGet.org. Today, we are announcing Stage 2 of our NuGet package signing journey - tamper proofing the entire package dependency graph. What is a Repository Signature? A repository signature is a code signing signature produced with an X....

Introducing signed package submissions to NuGet.org

RidoMay 22, 2018May 22, 201805/22/18

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 ...

NuGet.org will only support MSA/AAD starting June 1st, 2018

Anand GauravMay 15, 2018May 15, 201805/15/18

We had previously announced the deprecation of NuGet.org's home-grown authentication in favor of Microsoft accounts (MSA) that will allow us to add support for additional security systems such as two-factor authentication (2FA). We will be disabling the NuGet.org's home-grown authentication mechanism starting June 1st, 2018. This means that ...

Organizations on NuGet.org

Anand GauravApril 17, 2018Apr 17, 201804/17/18

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 ...

Incident report – NuGet.org downtime on March 22, 2018

Svetlana KofmanMarch 22, 2018Mar 22, 201803/22/18

We did this blog post to report about the incident that happened on March 22, 2018. In the last couple of days we digged deeper into the incident. Here is the summary of our findings and proposed next steps. Customer Impact NuGet.org website and V2 APIs were unavailable for 2 hours on March 22, 2018 between 8:45AM - 11:30AM UTC. More than 1....

Deprecating NuGet.org authentication

Anand GauravFebruary 27, 2018Feb 27, 201802/27/18

As announced in our NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap blog post, we are transitioning away from NuGet.org’s home-grown authentication mechanism which will eventually allow us to add support for additional security systems such as two-factor authentication (2-FA). In preparation for this transition, we had already added support for Microsoft accounts (...

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