The NuGet Blog

NuGet 3.3 Release

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15

Jeffrey Fritz

Big news: a new version of the NuGet clients has been released! This is version 3.3 of the client, with a new command-line and Visual Studio 2015 extension available for use. Use the above links to download from the NuGet distribution site, also accessible with the 'Downloads' menu item above. This is a release that the NuGet team worked ...

NuGet 3 – Visual Studio User Interface Discussion

October 14, 2015 Oct 14, 2015 10/14/15

Jeffrey Fritz

We want to continue our discussion of the recent changes made to the NuGet experience with the v3 releases, and in this second blog post of the series we are going to focus on the user interface updates that were made for Visual Studio 2015. I touched on it briefly in our last blog post about What and Why, but this time lets go a little deeper...

NuGet 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC released

October 12, 2015 Oct 12, 2015 10/12/15

Jeffrey Fritz

Today we are releasing nuget.exe 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC. A number of issues were identified in both versions that prevented interoperability on Linux and OSX operating systems. We also made some fixes to 3.2 in order to reduce network utilization. Changes Below are the top highlights of these releases 2.9-RC The complete 2.9 issue...

NuGet 3 – What and Why?

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15

Jeffrey Fritz

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 ...

Package Content and Removals

October 7, 2015 Oct 7, 2015 10/7/15

Jeffrey Fritz

The NuGet community is awesome; involved and eager to build software to make it easy for use in bigger projects that the components and libraries that they themselves are building. Every now and again, community members can get a little too eager. This post is going to address a recent issue that was presented to the NuGet.org administrators...

Why did my package download count suddenly go up

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15

Maarten Balliauw

Last week, we released our Revised Download Counts and Package Statistics that are now based on the raw logs of our CDN. For this to become reality, we had to also import data from our old statistics data warehouse into the new system. As it turns out, we overlooked something very important: in the old system (and by importing data, also in ...

Meet the new NuGet status page

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15

Maarten Balliauw

On the server side we are working on boosting performance, scalability and reliability. We were also in need of a new status page to better communicate the status of the service. Without further ado: meet the new status.nuget.org! (image) We're happy with this new incarnation of our status page. It not only shows whether individual services...

Revised Download Counts and Package Statistics

September 24, 2015 Sep 24, 2015 09/24/15

Maarten Balliauw

In the last few months we have been hard at work on the NuGet.org backend. One of the things we've done is switch to a new CDN. This work is all about reinforcing the foundations of nuget.org so we provide a better service experience and be in a position to build new features reliably. As a result we're happy to announce package statistics are...

Accelerate your network share hosted Package Source

September 22, 2015 Sep 22, 2015 09/22/15

Andrew Arnott

This is a guest blog, by Andrew Arnott from the Visual Studio team. Andrew was having performance issues with NuGet updating or installing packages from a UNC share. These issues where well known, and our solution in the past was to point people to http servers. We discussed this issue with Andrew and suggested that the new supported folder ...

Announcing the NuGet 3.2 release

September 16, 2015 Sep 16, 2015 09/16/15

Jeffrey Fritz

Today we are publishing the version 3.2 updates to the NuGet clients. We took customer feedback regarding issues and feature direction and assembled this release to address those immediate concerns. There are fixes available for a number of blocking issues and adds support for push and list for compliant V3 servers. We also added support for ...