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Announcing NuGet.exe and NuGet Client SDK Packages Support Policy: Keeping You Informed and Secure

November 20, 2023 Nov 20, 2023 11/20/23
authorsKartheek Penagamuri, Jon Douglas
At NuGet, our commitment is to ensure that our users have access to the latest, most secure, and well-maintained versions of our tools and packages. With this in mind, we would like to announce the NuGet Support Policy, a set of guidelines designed to keep you informed about the status of NuGet.exe and NuGet Client SDK packages on nuget.org. ...

HTTPS Everywhere Update

September 19, 2023 Sep 19, 2023 09/19/23
Jon Douglas
Mistakes were made When we first published the plan for the effort of HTTPS everywhere, we wanted to get developer community feedback on the various HTTP and HTTPS scenarios that we don't have much everyday visibility of. After we published that blog, we heard you loud and clear that there was a gap. This plan needed a clear way to suppress ...

The Microsoft author-signing certificate will be updated as soon as August 14th, 2023

August 3, 2023 Aug 3, 2023 08/3/23
The NuGet Team
Action required: If you validate that packages are author-signed by Microsoft using a NuGet client policy or the command, please follow these steps by August 14th, 2023 to avoid potential disruptions when installing new Microsoft packages. If you are unsure, we have outlined steps to check if you will be impacted. Microsoft uses an X.509 ...

Write a high-quality README for NuGet packages

March 2, 2023 Mar 2, 2023 03/2/23
Lynn Dai
Based on our recent customer interviews and surveys, one of the top problems that package consumers face is insufficient package documentation, such as README, changelog, examples, and API reference. On the other hand, package authors may struggle with best practices for creating a clear and concise README. Our goal is to improve the overall ...

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 ...

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 ...

NuGet Season of Giving

September 30, 2022 Sep 30, 2022 09/30/22
authorsJon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev, Camila Thompson
NuGet has gone through a lot of changes over the last 10 years. From the package manager console, standalone NuGet.exe, and integration of NuGet into the .NET SDK, we have always relied on the open source community to help evolve and advance NuGet to meet the needs of the .NET ecosystem. Since NuGet has been on GitHub, the repository has ...