The NuGet Blog

New and improved NuGet Search is here!

Karan Nandwani August 22, 2019 Aug 22, 2019 08/22/19

It’s been a long time coming, and today we are excited to announce the new and improved search on NuGet.org leveraging Azure Search. We want to start this post with a huge thanks to you, the NuGet community, for providing feedback. We have aggregated all feedback around search result relevance into one mega issue. We used this as the ...

Surfacing GitHub Usage for packages on NuGet.org

Mohamed Riad Gahlouz July 17, 2019 Jul 17, 2019 07/17/19

Update: This feature has been enhanced. Read about the latest version. There are several criteria you can use today to evaluate NuGet packages. We received feedback that you would like even more information to help choose the right packages. We're excited to introduce GitHub Usage on nuget.org, which allows you to explore top GitHub ...

NuGet Spring 2019 Roadmap

Anand Gaurav April 10, 2019 Apr 10, 2019 04/10/19

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 ...

Enable repeatable package restores using a lock file

Anand Gaurav December 17, 2018 Dec 17, 2018 12/17/18

With PackageReference, NuGet always tries to produce the same closure of package dependencies if the input package reference list has not changed. However, there are a few scenarios where it may not be able to do so. While these cases are limited, we received multiple requests to completely lock down the full package dependency graph for ...

Lock down your dependencies using configurable trust policies

Rido December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18

For the past several months we have focused on various features to improve package security and trust. Around a year back, we had announced our plans on various signing functionalities that we have been implementing at a steady pace. We enabled package author signing and NuGet.org repository signing earlier this year. Continuing on the signing...

Improved package debugging experience with the NuGet.org symbol server

Karan Nandwani November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18

Starting today, you can publish symbol packages to the NuGet.org symbol server. With NuGet.org as a single service provider for libraries and symbols, package authors and consumers will have a streamlined publishing and consumption experience. With a single place for managing authentication and identity, you can be sure that both the package ...

Introducing Source Code Link for NuGet packages

Maxime Rouiller August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18

NuGet.org now supports surfacing source code repository link for NuGet packages. This will enable package authors to surface both the project's website and the source repository using the projectUrl and the repository properties respectively instead of having to choose between the two using just the projectUrl property. The nuspec has ...

NuGet.org starts repo-signing packages

Rido August 10, 2018 Aug 10, 2018 08/10/18

In May, we implemented Stage 1 and enabled support for any NuGet.org user to submit signed packages to NuGet.org. Today, we are announcing Stage 2 of our NuGet package signing journey - tamper proofing the entire package dependency graph. What is a Repository Signature? A repository signature is a code signing signature produced with an X....

NuGet Summer 2018 Roadmap

Anand Gaurav July 2, 2018 Jul 2, 2018 07/2/18

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 ...

Introducing signed package submissions to NuGet.org

Rido May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018 05/22/18

In September 2017, we announced our plans to improve the security of the NuGet ecosystem by introducing the ability for package authors to sign packages. Today, we want to announce support for any NuGet.org user to submit signed packages to NuGet.org. A signed NuGet package is designed to be fully compatible with pre-existing NuGet servers ...