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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 ...

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 ...

HTTPS everywhere

August 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 08/9/22
Jon Douglas
Safety guaranteed As an ongoing effort to make HTTPS everywhere a reality for NuGet, we have taken a number of steps to help protect your everyday package management experiences. Earlier this year, a security fact sheet from The White House reinforced companies to take action to secure our software supply chains. HTTPS and SSL not only ...

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 ...