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Performance and Polish with NuGet 5.9

March 17, 2021 Mar 17, 2021 03/17/21

Jon Douglas

NuGet 5.9 is a great release that brings a refined experience to everything package management. We’ve added a bunch of exciting quality of life improvements while also bringing you a more performant package management experience. We’re excited to see you use NuGet 5.9 & include it in your toolset to build amazing things with .NET.

How to Scan NuGet Packages for Security Vulnerabilities

March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Drew Gillies

Today, we are announcing the public availability of NuGet’s vulnerability features that you can use to ensure your projects are vulnerability free and if not, to take action to securing your software supply chain.

The NuGet.org repository signing certificate will be updated as soon as March 15th, 2021

February 25, 2021 Feb 25, 2021 02/25/21

Christopher Gill

The current NuGet.org repository signing certificate will be updated as soon as March 15th, 2021. If you validate that packages are repository signed by NuGet.org, you will need to take steps to avoid disruptions when installing packages from NuGet.org.

Happy 10th Birthday, NuGet!

January 13, 2021 Jan 13, 2021 01/13/21

Christopher Gill

NuGet 1.0 was released on January 13th, 2011 – 10 years and 4 major version releases ago. Since then, NuGet.org has grown to host a large and vibrant package ecosystem with over 230 thousand unique packages.

Getting Started With NuGet 5.8

November 13, 2020 Nov 13, 2020 11/13/20

Jon Douglas

NuGet 5.8 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 package management easier during your daily development.

The Microsoft author signing certificate will be updated as soon as November 1st, 2020

October 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020 10/22/20

Christopher Gill

The current Microsoft author signing certificate will be updated as soon as November 1st, 2020. If you validate that packages are author signed by Microsoft, you will need to take steps to avoid disruptions when installing Microsoft packages.

View dependent packages on NuGet.org

August 20, 2020 Aug 20, 2020 08/20/20

Christopher Gill

We're excited to announce that you can now view dependent packages in the new Used By section on NuGet.org, yet another major improvement to the package evaluation experience!

Advanced search on NuGet.org

August 7, 2020 Aug 7, 2020 08/7/20

Mohamed Riad Gahlouz

We are excited to announce that NuGet.org now supports one of our top customer asks - advanced search! You can now use a multitude of sorting and filtering criteria to help find the best NuGet packages for your needs!

Deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on NuGet.org – Stage 1

February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20

The NuGet Team

In this post, we will go into more details and a specific timeline for Stage 1 i.e. temporarily removing support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on NuGet.org. The goal is to help you identify systems that may be affected and will give you an opportunity to take action before we permanently remove support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in April 2020.

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