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The latest news, updates, and insights from the NuGet team

NuGet 2 code base moves to GitHub

In the last few months we have constantly moved the issues and all new code base to GitHub. Today we moved the last bits of code from CodePlex to GitHub. We have stopped monitoring the CodePlex site completely, and will not be taking further looks at reports there or pull requests. As we keep working on NuGet 3.1.2 release for Visual Studio ...

NuGet 3.0 Released

Its been a long journey to this date. We've investigated and tested and released a number of interim builds for developers and package owners to test with the latest Visual Studio bits. The NuGet team is happy to hear all of your feedback about our add-in for Visual Studio and would like to announce the availability of the NuGet 3.0 client ...

NuGet.org server status

For the last few weeks we have experienced a few hours of downtime a few times a week. The NuGet community was very engaged in sharing the issues both on Twitter, support@nuget.org, personal emails, and GitHub. We thank you for that and appreciate your patience. We realize NuGet.org is a center to many of the day to day activities of a .NET ...

NuGet 3.0 RC 2 Released

In the month since the Visual Studio 2015 RC release, we have heard from many of you with compliments, complaints, and bug reports. The NuGet team is happy to hear about all of the experiences you've had with our add-in for Visual Studio. The team has been hard at work preparing for the final release of Visual Studio, and would like to issue ...

NuGet 2.8.5 Released

In the last few weeks we saw a significant change in the NuGet ecosystem with the renaming of the K utilities and framework monikers to DNX. To support that change and provide backwards compatibility for existing versions of Visual Studio, we are publishing an update to NuGet extensions for Visual Studio 2010, 2012, and 2013. This update does ...

NuGet 3.0 Beta 2 Released

That was a quick turn-around... we issued our 3.0 beta just a few days ago and our community of developers and supporters quickly found a number of issues with it. Thank you to the early reporters on Twitter and on this blog for helping us to identify those issues. We would like to issue an update to our Visual Studio extension to correct some...

NuGet 3.0 Beta Released

Its time for the 3.0 beta release for NuGet, and this time we have some much sought-after enhancements in the works for you. You can get access to the update NuGet binaries on Codeplex and through the Visual Studio extension manager. We are only releasing these preview bits for Visual Studio 2013 (on CodePlex only) and for Visual Studio 2015. ...

Package Signing

Package signing has been a major discussion point for a long time in the NuGet ecosystem. However, the NuGet Team didn't want to rush into an implementation and end up creating something that restricted the ecosystem unnecessarily. Well, we now think we are ready to begin a process to introduce Package Signing, and we want to share our plans ...