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NuGet Spring 2019 Roadmap

Anand GauravApril 10, 2019Apr 10, 201904/10/19

We published our last NuGet roadmap in June last year. Many of the features announced were major additions to NuGet and we have been hard at work to implement those over the last few months. In this post, we will start by summarizing the features we have completed and then peek into the next wave of work planned. Looking back Here are some ...

NuGet Summer 2018 Roadmap

Anand GauravJuly 2, 2018Jul 2, 201807/2/18

This blog post provides insights into the NuGet team plans for the upcoming quarter (July - Sep 2018). In the March 2018 NuGet Spring 2018 Roadmap, we had outlined Package Signing, Organizations, Cross-platform credential provider support, Repeatable builds for PackageReference based projects, etc. as our immediate priorities. We were able to ...

NuGet Spring 2018 Roadmap

Anand GauravMarch 1, 2018Mar 1, 201803/1/18

In August 2017, we published the NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap where we outlined our backlog for the upcoming quarter. Since then, we’ve published specifications for these experiences on GitHub for the community to review. You have provided a ton of great feedback that has helped us ensure we deliver the right experiences. Thank you for your ...

NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap

Unni RavindranathanAugust 9, 2017Aug 9, 201708/9/17

Over the past 6 months, the NuGet team has been working hard to ensure the growth of the .NET ecosystem. NuGet has grown significantly during this timeframe: NuGet.org is closing in on 4 billion packages served (up from a billion packages just a year ago), we have enabled new .NET scenarios such as .NET Standard 2.0, and have improved the ...

NuGet 3 – What and Why?

Jeffrey FritzOctober 8, 2015Oct 8, 201510/8/15

Since Visual Studio 2015 was released in July, developers have started using a new version of NuGet, NuGet 3 We decided to introduce a number of significant changes based on feedback from the community. With any major version change, some things break… and usually for a good reason. We have bugs and issues that we are addressing and want to ...

NuGet: In the Platform

The NuGet TeamOctober 14, 2014Oct 14, 201410/14/14

I recently declared that NuGet is "Broken By Design." Now, that was hyperbolic; I don't really think NuGet is broken. In fact, I'm very pleased with NuGet (and proud of it). But I wanted to make the point that NuGet's approach both earned it success but also came at a cost. NuGet can't presently offer some expected package management features ...

NuGet : Broken By Design

The NuGet TeamOctober 10, 2014Oct 10, 201410/10/14

On January 13, 2011, NuGet 1.0 was released with ASP.NET MVC 3. On June 19, 2012, NuGet 2.0 shipped in the box with all editions of Visual Studio 2012 (including the free ones). That was a little over 2 years ago, and NuGet's adoption has been steadily increasing since then. Here are some interesting figures for recent NuGet usage from nuget....

Building NuGet 3.x

Jeff HandleyApril 24, 2014Apr 24, 201404/24/14

Evolution of NuGet At MonkeySpace 2013 last July, we revealed some of our thinking for the Evolution of NuGet. These were the ideas we had for what would become NuGet 3.x and they included the following areas: Package Discovery Package Trust / Incompatibility API Package Installation / Build Making Progress ...