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Managing dependencies on complex projects can be overwhelming. Developers often grapple with numerous direct and transitive dependencies across multiple projects. When different projects share dependencies with varying versions, manual conflict resolution becomes necessary, which can be tedious and error-prone, as fixing one issue may inadvertently...

NuGet 6.8 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 8.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.8 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. Maintaining and understanding security status in your projects is now easier than ever in NuGet 6.8. We're happy to announce a plethora of new features to help you be aware potential vul...

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 readable...

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 package ...

We heard from you that direct dependencies are easy to track, but that you struggle with tracking transitive dependencies. We want to make that easier for the day-to-day management of your NuGet packages in Visual Studio. To help you track transitive dependencies and remediate vulnerabilities quickly with SDK-style projects, we are introducing an ...

NuGet 6.0 - Source Mapping, Package Vulnerabilities, Faster Solution Load, Oh My! NuGet 6.0 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.0 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps developers d...

Building on Visual Studio’s robust IntelliCode experience for .NET, we’re excited to introduce NuGet IntelliCode Package Suggestions in Visual Studio 16.10! IntelliCode Package Suggestions use your project’s context, such as installed packages and project type, to suggest packages to enhance your workflow! IntelliCode AI-assistance has become an i...

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.

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 lets yo...

Last year, we introduced the option to make PackageReference the default package management format for managing NuGet dependencies when installing the first NuGet package for a newly created projects. With Visual Studio Version 15.7 Preview 3, we have introduced the capability to migrate existing projects that use the format to use PackageReferenc...